Review: Decent
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 9, 2013
Disclosure:  I received a free copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.  It contains no spoilers.The beginning is a little slow and distracting (all the comments in parenthesis created part of the distraction, the other part was the narrator's injections that seemed only to prove that he existed as a character outside the story).  This doesn't exactly rectify itself as the story continues, but the reader gets used to it and it becomes less distracting.As far as the slow start, it felt like the writer was info dumping the entire background into the first 1/3 of the book.  I know every book needs a back story, but if it can't be summarized in a few paragraphs (or a page), it should be more evenly dispersed through-out the book.Despite the problematic start, the story is actually good.  The plot is interesting and keeps the pages flipping.  The characters were quirky and fully developed.Having read the first book and being given all the info needed for the series, I might read book two with the hopes that there is less info dumping and more storytelling.