Review: Enjoyable, though somewhat jarring.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 7, 2011
This story is relatively short- I managed to read it in a few hours, and for the most part it was an easy read. However, due to the short length, sometimes things didn't go into enough depth and I found myself having to backtrack and search for the significance of certain things or names. Some details were glossed over, and the story itself could use a little polishing to fix some typos and encourage the flow.The story itself was very enjoyable, with enough of a proper 'alien' sense to grant a plausibility. However, some of the themes were quite confronting and handled in a rather crude way- in particular, the swearing in places detracted from the story, rather than hinted at emotion. The references to physical intimacy could also have been handled in a more delicate way- some of the phrases were uncomfortable, and though the story is probably more appropriate to a teenaged reader, the relationships within the book are confronting.