Review: Not really a novel
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 28, 2014
Let me say that I actually enjoy reading this series.  There is an imaginative mind behind this world.The biggest problem is the main character is so omni-competent.  The next biggest is the lack of an antagonist with any real power.  El is so overwhelming and has amassed an enormous fortune and has AIs working on her behalf...she is girl with Captain America's physical abilities, Bruce Wayne's money, and Reed Richards brain.  Her opposition has all been goonish politicians, egotistical athletes, or overmatched secret agents.The most recent attempt to dethrone involves a new President who gets what seems to be an unconstitutional law passed, seizing her intellectual property.  Then the President has El taken into custody and transferred to Gitmo.  Wait, back up a sec.  The Secret Service allowed a person with an active warrant (who has repeatedly demonstrated physical abilities unmatched by ANY human ANYWHERE) to enter the Oval Office while the President was there?!?The whole series ends up being more fantasy fulfillment than good fiction and there is no persistent enemy or force against which she fights, other than reality.I will STILL read the next installment.  The story moves well and the writing is clean and not overbearing or pedantic.I consider this more of a long serial than a series of novels.