Review: Interesting concept, execution not so much
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 13, 2012
I wanted to like this, but couldn't. The concept was interesting. Unfortunately, the author has an immature and unpolished writing style. Too much heavy handed internal expositon, failure to do minimal research (oranges in France in mid-Winter, for example, and calling a military noncom "sir"), and lapses in logic/structure for this alternate or future world. Where the heck are all the basics coming from in a collapsed society? I kept feeling like Mik was a woman in disguise. Worse, he went from an asexual nondrinker to falling into bed, drunk, having stereotyped sex with his roommate Ash, and waking up in undying love. Ugh. The characters didn't have much depth. Lots of cliches, as if culled from TV and movies. The POV flipped from first person real time to "I'm talking to you the reader" without warning (and I'm sure without itent). Disconcerting. Maybe the next ones will be better.