Review: A beginning effort that could have been even more.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 18, 2013
A cliche sketchy character story developed into a novella, that could have used better dialogue and plot substance to drive the book. The action did most of the work with it's page acion reminding the reader of Blade Runner and something like a futuristic cop gone renegade. The book has some character development work to help us know them better, without getting in the way of the non-stop action. Sometimes that becomes the rub in doing the story, where the plot skims along without any explanation of more about the reasons and background of everyone in the story. We continue to gain little knowledge, and as we move to the end, we just catch our breath as the story ends. Why did this happen and why did it have to happen at all? The pluses outweigh the minuses in this story as this appears to be his first effort. He can raise the bar even more in this genre, if he pays close attention to the story flaws by a even better effort. A little detail can go along way. So can he use some tight unstale or not worn out dialogue used before so many times. The mystery has to be eventually solved, and there has to be something besides the action to drive this unexplained plot onward. In the way the story ends, I gather there is another chapter of this 2060 On The Run. I will stay tuned only hoping to see a better second installment.