Review: A good start to a promising series....
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 8, 2014
The author, Reed Sprague, gifted me a copy of this novel in exchange for my review.There are flashes of brilliance in “Eddy’s Current.” The reader follows a character that is rising to dangerous prominence on the political scene. Sprague brings us the best of political thrillers in corruption, greed and the apathetic cooperation of “sheeple.” In many way, “Eddy’s Current” is like the best episode of American Greed (CNBC). It’s the inconsistency of writing style and that the author could have winnowed some choices made in the story that truly let this novel down.“Eddy’s Current” is the first in a planned quartet of novels and in order to fill those four novels with any sort of running thread, there has to be a number of threads to flesh out and follow. “Eddy’s Current” was very top heavy. There are a large number of characters to keep track of as well as several plot lines that one could assume will be tied up and characters fleshed out over the course of four novels but, at the outset, are hard to keep track. This difficulty is enhanced by a perplexing metafiction aspect that cannot help but take the reader out of the experience.“Eddy’s Current” is quite the cautionary tale. Sprague’s biography tells us that his faith is very important to him so its no surprise that there is a message of warning to people turning their back on religion in our country. While not a religious person, I can appreciate Sprague’s intent and know that if my very religious mom were to read fiction, she would enjoy the message of “Eddy’s Current.”