Review: Nice idea, I wasn't thrilled.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 7, 2014
I really like books like Wool and the sort. This sounded similar--post-apocalyptic, people living in a walled city with no idea of the world outside, etc.Possible spoilers!This was a very very slow book to start. That's the reason it's 3 stars on my end rather than 4. It took a lot to get into. There are a lot of characters, not enough initial back-story to know who is who and how they are related and why they are doing what they are doing. A huge portion of the book is also told in flashback, which I only realized after I went back and checked the dates on when the events were happening. It's quite confusing until you figure out that it's a flashback.Once I was a good 40% of the way through the book I started to get into it, but 40% is a lot to slog through to get into a book. Perhaps a cast of characters at the beginning of the book would have helped, but by the time I was 40% of the way through, I had them all figured out.A promising story idea that I didn't end up being thrilled with the execution. Perhaps the following books will be better. I'll check them out, as the author has promise.I received this book in exchange for an honest review.