Review: Infecting!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 14, 2014
I've read other books by P.S. Power and they weren't my favorites for a lot of reasons. No need to go into that here and now.I purchased the Infected boxed set of six books and started to read, not realizing that I had read some of his other books. I caught on by his misuse of the word 'overly'. He uses it as an adjective at the end of the sentence with no verb to be modified, rather in the sentence, attached to a verb, eg. "He didn't like her attitude overly" rather than, "he didn't overly like her attitude". The first example is awkward and 'overly' just isn't needed to convey the meaning of the statement, overly.He also needs a proofreader who knows what they're doing. Using 'Cow Tow' instead of kowtow, peaking instead of peeking and other glaring instances of the misuse of synonyms, makes me believe that he is using voice-to-print software without checking the text.That's the bad news. The good news is, that in spite of these problems, this is a very engaging story! I really liked it!The first person, stream of consciousness style really works here. This seemed to me, at first, to be an imitation of the X-Men stories, but with different characters. As I got into the tale, it became apparent that I was wrong. It has its super heroes and villains, but they are so richly described, foibles and all, that you feel as if you know them all, personally. This is character development at its finest.The fact that the six books contained in the set are each about a different character, only adds to the story being told, as they all interact with one another in each book. The overall story is about the Infected battling for acceptance with non-infected society, all the while being thwarted by a separate faction who is working toward a cataclysmic war between Infected and normals.The Infected are people who, because of an unknown mutation of some sort, develop physical abnormalities and varying degrees of superpowers that set them apart from the uninfected. There is no contamination, the infected are not contagious at all, so what remains is an epic case of societal bigotry that cannot end well.This is all I will say about the story line, but the tale is told so well, that after a short while, the reader becomes heavily invested in the characters. Well done!I encourage you to give this a try. Once in the pool, you'll have a difficult job getting out!Read this!