Review: A good read - but I feel like I missed something!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 5, 2013
Patrice Fitzgerald continues her "Karma saga" with this story, part 3 in a series of 5 - and appropriately, the pace picks up after a somewhat lackluster (and, to me, deeply disturbing) part 2. Karma and her family fall into jeopardy during a silo uprising, and Ms. Fitzgerald nicely describes both the sense of danger and the frustration and boredom of the situation Karma finds herself in.I was surprised, though, and thrown a little bit off-kilter by Karma's having become a judge, when during the first two parts of the saga she was drugged into a near-stupor, kept completely in the dark about the origins of the silo and "life outside," and was working as an ordinary laborer in the silo's laundry. Her becoming a judge came completely out of left field.  Why, all of a sudden, would the Powers That Be trust her with that level of responsibility?I'm hoping that in the final two parts of the story, we'll see a fleshing-out of Karma's husband Rick.  Up to this point, he's been a very two-dimensional character, and almost everything we know of him, we've been told rather than shown. He's got a LOT to answer for, for keeping Karma in the dark all these years, and I'd like to see that situation fully explored and resolved. Fingers crossed!