Review: Book three falls short.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 1, 2012
Ok. It's called the HOLLOW MEN, but it doesn't mention anything about Hollow men. I'm confused already.Secondly, it's 57 pages. FIFTY SEVEN measly pages for $2.99. I reached the ending and was like "WHAT?!? That's IT?!?" The story hadn't really progressed anywhere.Seriously, the writing is good and the story is not bad, but this one should have stayed in MS Word a little longer. Not only was it WAY too short, but the action in it was repetetive from the first two books (Get over it...this dead husk of a person you keep "imagining", isn't real and I'm tired of hearing about her. There's no one else in the shelter and no way anyone can GET into the shelter.) The main character is way too paranoid and it's tiring. Her paranoia isn't moving the story along one bit. This was more of a character insight than a book three for the story.I feel like the author was pressed for the next book and just threw something together (something very short!) one night to satisfy his contract. I feel cheated. A new character was introduced, but the story was so short we don't know a thing about him, he didn't have time to do anything and what he did do is not anything that would be in character for someone on the outside of a fall-out shelter.I'm curious to know if not reading this one would make any difference in the story, once book four comes out. And I certainly hope book four will be much longer - or I'm afraid I'll be done with Ken Kelly's series.