Review: The circle completes - TV episodes to Book format
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 6, 2013
It had to happen I suppose. Television series have traditionally sprung from the ideas of books though with Phoenix Earth we have the reverse. What if a book read like episodes of a television series and you could dive into an episode and have done with it in about the same time (Excluding the ads of course). That is the premis here and initially I was not convinced it would work. What would happen to the detail we expect from authors? Where would the description word-magic happen when you only had an hour to get it all together.I read the first episode on the train to work and finished it as I arrived. That was great. I got a Sci-fi fix and could look forward to the next instalment on my journey home. Still I was intrigued enough to spend my lunch-time catching the next episode and my commute home coming to terms with episode three.Whatever shortcomings there might be in detail, the story line rocked along and what was not answered in episode one was caught up on in subsequent offerings. I will add a short note of caution though to the authors (and in this format it can be done); make sure that what gets left behind as a tease in the episodes is explained in more detail somewhere in the continuing dialogue. We don't want a 'Days In Our Lives type dilemma where the characters end up losing their appendix three times. I have rated this with a view to improving it upwards as I go along. Well done. Peter Eerden