Review: this is a great start!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 26, 2012
I liked this book a lot!  Nice characters and settings.  Good story line.Main character's "this isn't happening to me" narration is getting tired, but it's likely to change in sequels.One thing that bugged me was the "character telling story of some historical person in first person perspective".  This happened a few times, where a character telling a story discussed the private thoughts of the subject of the story that they couldn't possibly have known.  It really dragged me out of the story.It's like if I were going to tell a story about Abraham Lincoln and said: "And then Abe thought he was in a lot of trouble and wasn't sure what to do."I suppose that would be fine if you have personal memoirs from the period, but that doesn't make sense in the context of this telling.My *suspicion* is that these were short stories built around this novel which were just kind of thrown-in (like the life of the second angel, the pacifist, and the life of his child).Anyways... didn't really hit the story too hard, so it maintains a 4-star rating (meaning I liked it and I'll read more of the series, but it isn't in my top X books, where X is some number like 20-40)