Review: The Conundrum continues
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 11, 2014
I tossed up between 3 & 4 stars for this addition to the Yellowstone Conundrum saga. Why? Because it's a well written story that is once again let down by these annoying & completely unecessary pictures. They add very very very little to the story except for adding to the overall page count of the book. Some of the pictures I've now seen 4 or 5 times and at points there are 2 or 3 pages of just pictures(which in some cases have already popped up several times in that book & previous instalments). It's extremely annoying. Add to that the reappearance of text which has been made bold for no real reason and geez, I wan to throw my Kindle at the wall.So why keep reading these instalments you ask? Because the story actually is that good. Yes it is let down in a major way by all these pictures ( there are maybe 5 illustrations out of all 4 installments that I actually found informative and actually ADDED to the story - the rest just detract).John Randall has taken a fantastic concept and is running with it in a really realistic way. I find my self wanting to know what is going to happen to all of these characters as the Yellowstone eruption continues. Oh & a side note - it's ejecta coming from the volcano not effluent - effluent is a liquid flow into a river or stream(usually chemical or biological waste) - ejecta is the material thrown out by a volcano (if you are referring to liquid coming from a volcano it's called an effusive eruption!). So once again..just lose all the pictures of dams PLEASE!