Review: Young Adult SI FI at its best!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 7, 2013
April is the lead book in a series that is currently at book number four. When I started this book I was at first thinking this is a loose adaptation of the Tom Corbit Series I read when I was five years old waiting for first grade to start. I always thought that that series really lacked character development because the main character did it all. This book does not make that mistake. What it does do is make a sharp criticism of modern culture and the way we waste our youths minds by never letting them think or make their own mistakes without hammering them into oblivion. There are a number of very bright young people who are allowed to stretch their wings and achieve flight.Frankly this book is an entertaining read as escapism and as serious literature. The world view is different from any I would have envisioned and I fully intend sitting down over coffee or something else of the authors choice and asking him to expand on his world building. I love a good travel log but I also want the travel to build the story and This story did so with a vengeance.DO yourself a favor if you like SIFI adventure stories and buy all four books and set down and read them. I did and was up for almost 36 hours reading. That ties a record with one other author and it was not Heinlein or Azimov, which puts this author in their category! That should tell you what to expect in my not so humble opinion!