Review: Non-Stop Action....A Must Read!!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 7, 2013
This is the third Shane Brown book I've read (two novels and one short story anthology) and I have not been disappointed yet. PLAZA is non-stop action from the opening pages through to the end.  Yes, as some reviewers have pointed out, there are typos and grammatical errors (I suspect, though, that the author addressed this issue in his later books by engaging a new editor), there are some scientific inaccuracies and some readers may be overwhelmed with the number of characters that come in and out of the story (sometimes quickly and frequently violently!).  All valid comments but in my opinion...so what! Brown is an excellent storyteller and none of these shortcomings reduced my enjoyment of this book by one bit.Having read some really innovative stories from this author I hesitated to start this one.  I expected the typical "what did they unearth" archeological story turning into an equally typical horror tale.  It's been done many times before.  What I didn't expect, though, were competing groups of thieves who are ready to fight to the death for what is "theirs" and the dilemma of the archeologists who are caught between trying to salvage their finds and just staying alive in the process.  Oh, and then of course all three groups have to deal with unseen monsters who kill indiscriminately in a horrific manner.  (If you have problems with graphically violent deaths this may not be the story for you. Brown does has a flair for coming up with unique ways to kill someone.)To me the best part of owning a Kindle is finding unknown authors whose works would have never been available to us through traditional bookstores.  I've found some great ones and some pretty bad ones too. Brown falls into the former category for sure.  I am NOT about to compare Brown to an author who's sold millions of books but I want to make one analogy that I think is fair.  No one read A Time To Kill by John Grisham until The Firm became a best seller.  It's just too difficult for a new author to get distribution of an early novel.  But after that first success people quickly got access to his first novel (mostly unknown until then though very well-written).  Shane Brown's day will come and once that happens more people will discover this book. So you might as get ahead of the crowd and enjoy it now! :)