Review: A Pleasant Surprise
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 26, 2012
After reading that this was to be a Young Adult series, I was not expecting to like this book as much as I did, but this author has a way of creating characters that grow on you.  Other reviewers have done a good job of describing the plot so I will skip that rundown, but I must point out that this book shares a similar theme with some of L.E. Modisett's works, with regard to checks on individual resource and power usages, which is great since I love those books.  Also, this is a theme seen in the Young Ancients to some extent, but I suspect as this series progresses we will see more on this topic.As for the our protagonist, Pran seems like a very can-do young woman used to hard work and sacrifice but she is also green and untried as the story starts, and Without Rhythm is the beginning of her rite of passage.  I enjoy Pran's efforts to maintain a cool exterior while stepping on her own self-doubt, and look forward to learning more about her development as she comes to grasp with her own identity. I would classify this effort as a great first book in what I hope will be a long running series.