Review: NOT taking away a star because its too short
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 3, 2013
When I downloaded this "short story", I knew the print length was 8 pages, and even though I have paid 99 cents for full novels, for me, the cost of a story and the length of a story has NOTHING to do with each other; also, I am a HUGE Wil Wheaton fan and would probably praise anything he put his name too just to support him as an artist.  So, with THAT being said, I am giving this story 4 stars instead of 5 because at its core, this book is about a conflict of 2 individuals, in a post war apocalyptic setting.  Wil doesn't bother with a lot of details about the war; humans lost, enough said, that was fine, but the reason the story isn't a 5 star story is because the two characters Nina and Pyke, that are in conflict are not really fleshed out to the point that I actually care which one wins.  Pyke is a traitor bounty hunter scumbag working for the race of aliens that destroyed the humans, and Nina is a human girl, apparently working for some kind of rebel resistance movement.  The story actually reminded me a lot of the kind of things you saw in X-Men:  Days of Future Past the comic series (and soon to be a 2014 blockbuster film), that is a huge plus.  I just felt that if Pyke and Nina had just a little bit more background, then maybe the reader could actually sympathize with one or both, and maybe actually care what happens to them at the end.