Review: The beginning of a longer piece.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 26, 2012
Steven W. Booth and Harry Shannon, <strong>Jailbreak</strong> (Steven W. Booth, 2010)Turns out this Kindle freebie is the first two chapters of Booth and Shannon's new novel, <em>The Hungry</em>. God marketing strategy, that, though I wish I'd known it going in (and that's why I mentioned it in the first sentence of the review). It certainly has an unfinished feel to it, which is part of the reason I rated it as low as I did; I would have probably been more forgiving knowing there were more chapters coming. The other part of the reason I rated it "average" is that the writing feels clunky in places; there's some stuff that seems like it should be setup for the climactic events of the story, but it's not handled quite right, leaving part of it transparent and the other part too muddled (you know who's getting out, but the "how" ends up feeling like a deus ex machina). Still, it's decent enough to make me want to know what happens in the rest of the book, so I'll probably end up buying it at one point soon. Which means this did its job. **