Review: Missed it by -->that<-- much
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 14, 2011
Overall I liked this book, but it fell short in a number of areas.  In general it needs a bit of polish, the premise is great and the characters have potential.First off, there are way too many typos and missing words.  That totally kills the flow when I have to guess what a character meant to say.More frustrating though was that too many aspects of the story are completely unexplained.  The main character discovers that he has some sort of super power, and is suddenly in a mysterious world that exists only in the ether.  He has nano-machines in his blood, and is at the heart of some dark subterfuge. And he doesn't seem to give it all a second thought.The Fey girl tells him something about the future and he has a vague idea that he already know her and has some missing memories.  And then he never thinks about it again.Nothing that happens in the story seems to be connected, it's a series of unexplained happenings with at best a tenuous plot connection.What happened to Mitsuru?  How come there is never any follow-on action with the bully?  He shows up in two scenes and that's it.  In a small school they'd be rubbing against each other all the time.  Why does the main character go off with the Fey girl when he know Emily is waiting in his room?  Doesn't give it a second thought, and she's barely mentioned throughout the rest of the book.And the book concludes without any resolution.  We have no more idea what is going on at the end of the book that we did at the beginning of the book.Kudos to the author for his first effort, writing a book is a big undertaking.  I plan to read the next book when it comes out, but it really needs to be better crafted.  There are some great possibilities here, I'd like to see them better developed.