Review: New series, that is OK for its price
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 14, 2013
I just got this book and I'll admit the preview made me question if the book was worth buying. The only reason I decided to buy was because the book series already has a couple more novels; as a fast reader that made it worth the risk. The main storyline is given in the synopsis but the book starts with very little background and spares little time to set the scene as it were. The first third of the novel was jumpy and seemed to be a mash-up of cliched characters and very little background. By the end of the novel I think things got a little more fleshed out and I was satisfied with how things turned out but overall the book needs an editor and maybe a little more gritty real world feel. It felt like a fairly standard sci-fi script good guy won and yada yada yada.. I think a few scenes and the ending show promise for the author and I plan to buy the next book to see where this goes but overall its not going to be a book I reread or recommend as anything other than a time filler for sci-fi fans.gallandrops. The books epilogue tells that the author got the idea from an anime and it explains why the book seemed so scatter shot to me. The author started the book based on the seed of an anime and trying to tie it into the new universe he imagined obviously was less than smooth.the next couple of books as it breaks from the original anime is quite a bit more polished but the author still needs to spend a bit of time building his universe it seems to be a WIP