Review: Interesting Science - Confusing Calendar - Still a Pretty Good Read
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 19, 2014
For a cop, Cobb Takamura has it good. His beat is a bit of paradise. Until, that it, bodies start cropping up all over the place. Takamura very quickly finds that every paradise has its serpents in Vector, by Rob Swigart. I received a free copy in exchange for my honest review.A story that starts on a high note, and then takes you on an up-and-down, side-to-side roller coaster ride of suspense and intrigue, Vector has all the ingredients of a mystery-thriller, from a shadowy government agency involved in secret research that it’s willing to kill to keep secret, to the ‘looking for meaning’ outsider who helps Takamura solve a string of deaths that at first seem unrelated – but aren’t.I won’t say more about Vector, for fear that I’d spoil it for you. Swigart knows his stuff, though. The pacing is pretty good, and the technical stuff is credible – maybe not precisely accurate, but believable. The only significant problem with this story is the confusion about just ‘when’ it takes place. The characters are interesting enough that you sometimes forget that, but it crops up now and then in some inconvenient places that can disrupt the flow of your reading.If you have enough time, you can do this book in one sitting. But, you might want to take your time to really absorb all the twists and turns of an intricately woven tale. The timeline problem notwithstanding, it’s a pretty good read.