Review: Readable, but that's about it
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 19, 2012
I don't really know how to review this story.It was short.  To be honest, it was really too short.  I felt that the characters didn't get enough development in many casesIt was written in first person.  This can be good, but here the writing actually made it difficult to empathize with any of the characters.  The writing and narrative style just never engaged me enough to make me care about the charactersAnd the worst part was that it felt somewhat derivitive.  Now to a point its basically impossible to write a story that is 100% unique, there are just too many stories out there, but this one which even the author admits was "influenced" by the Horatio Hornblower books never broke out and gave me a plot or character that felt new.  There were times I almost felt like I had read the story before and since I wasn't engaged with any of the characters due to the narrative style, I found the story dull.It is an interesting interpretation of the basic plot, but overall I've read better stories.  I can't really recommend this to anyone.  There is some talent in the writing, but the lack of engagement disappointed me.