Review: Was Initially Skeptical Of A Prequel, But It Works
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 13, 2014
Prequels are often underwhelming, and reading about the early struggles of Cal didn't sound sufficiently interesting before I got started on Origins.  I was wrong.  The book manages to be just as funny as the original, and there is lots of action, adventure and interesting things going on.  Bernheimer even manages to get an impressive amount of amusement riffing off of the unlikelihood of future events through Cal's random pre-Confessions thoughts about Aphrodite, saving the world, and a host of other subjects - all without ever feeling strained.Bottom line, people that liked Confessions should like Origins.  In fact, in some ways Origins is a better book -- Confessions was very short and built from separate episodes, and to a modest degree felt like two separate stories.  Origins is longer, and more like a single story (even though some of the events in Cal's life are discrete).Pull the trigger.