Review: Incredibly Complex, Suspenseful, Genre-Mixer
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 13, 2012
Blind VeilAn incredibly intense reader's hook rockets us into this novel, yanked by the throat, jaw-dropped, and that hook never lets go. It's difficult to "race through the pages" when you're reading an ebook, but I just about managed to because I simply couldn't turn away. Author Michael Lorde demonstrates a sure eye for identifying social patterns and cultural milieus, and delivers those without judgment or faulting."Blind Veil" is a VERY complex novel, thankfully the first in a series. There are multiple layers, several different genres, solid protagonists and numerous deftly-designed secondary characters. I was riveted, and could not sleep until I had stayed up later than usual, simply because I was unwilling to set the novel aside to finish later! I marveled at the ways in which Author Lorde intertwined the diverse threads of past and present (and future) and was stunned by the impact of the conclusion. "Blind Veil" works fine as a stand-alone, but I for one am grateful to see it continuing into a series, because I definitely wish to learn more about Lamont Simms, about research scientists Byron Chelevski and Rae Sullivan, and especially about that incredibly dramatic conclusion, which I refuse to spoil for the reader. (Be good to yourself: read the book through-this is NOT a novel in which to read the end before the beginning, as some readers do. Please do NOT read the END first!)