Review: Enjoyable, but not to the level one should expect from Lanyon
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 25, 2013
I'm going to review this one along with The Dark Horse, as this one is a prequel/sequel to the that one.I think I enjoyed this second one a bit better than the first. I thought that achitectually it was better. At first I was a little the flash-back thing was going to get annoying, but it worked.I'm going to say that while I did enjoy them, neither of these rise to the level of Lanyon's other books. I did not really connect with either character: especially Sean. What seemed inconsistant was that he was supposed to be this great movie star, yet there was nothing to really back that up, in fact, the author made numerous references to the fact that he was more at a B-movie level. I REALLY don't like high-maintenance characters. In fact, I REALLY don't connect with high-maintenance people. Sean was the stereo-typical high maintenance person. Dan was definitely the "North Star" (fixed, immovable) character in the story and I felt he was by far the strongest. The first book is told in first person, and the second vacillates between 3rd and 1st person as seen through Sean's eyes. I guess the weakest part of the story was that the weak, high-maintenance character was the narrator, which made for a weak, erratic story. Had Dan been the primary character and the story been told through his eyes, it would have been a stronger story.