Review: Compelling, though not promising
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 12, 2012
"Short story" doesn't have to mean "not fleshed out," which was my impression of this introduction to the series. The premise is great and has a lot of promise. In places the writing is really quite lovely. The emotional development of the characters was lacking, so I didn't really engage with them. Not engaging with them left me not really caring what happened to them. As well, the transitions in the piece are choppy, something that could have been smoothed with a good, solid edit. It's a compelling start, though I found the writing problematic enough not to read more of the series.