Review: A start of an adventure, but needs more substance
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 31, 2012
This short tale has some great concepts but I found the writing style a bit choppy and distracting. The content, as another reviewer suggests, is more targeted to younger readers than adults. Accepting that, the style still bothered me a bit, and the characters were so 2 dimensional that I was very uninterested in their plight, although the back story (poverty, family strife, social rejection) could well have had strong emotional connections.I am not sure which of these factors distanced me from the lead character, Jack, but I do know that the only writer that can pull off such a brusk, choppy writing style is the late Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Somehow, it work for him, perhaps because of the content.I found this short story less engaging, thus my 3-star rating.