Review: Sadly going downhill
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 6, 2014
Olah's first few volumes in the series held interest; as we get further into the soap opera, it just gets tedious.The author pulls out just about every indie trick in the book to keep this series limping along. There's a tear running down a cheek or a tear forming in an eye about once every 7 pages. The rare interesting character is treated in the ultimate poor way, evidently because that's the way they all do it in these serial PA novels these days. Conversation between characters is stilted and unnatural. Every chapter seems to end with foreboding, like a gunshot or a cry of despair. The resolutions in the following chapter are trite and have been done a million times before. There's the gratuitous sickening violence, just because.And, of course, there are the staples of the indie-writer world: the homonym errors. People don't "fair" well or poorly; they fare well. And this author fares poorly in basic English.The new revenue model for these books seems to be: Put all your best ideas into Volume 1, then keep publishing Volumes 2-100 of ever-decreasing quality until people give up. For this series, I'm out at Volume 7.