Review: Pretty good, but needs help.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 24, 2014
I really enjoyed The Abyss Above Us.  I thought the main character of Shaw was believable and sympathetic.  The action and suspense was really great up until Chapter 6.Chapter 6 is when things went kinda bad for this book, as other reviewers have mentioned.  We are introduced to a handful of characters that, honestly, I had trouble keeping straight.  Also, these characters seemed to have no bearing on anything.  Maybe that story arc will resolve itself in Book 2.  I was annoyed by this side storyline because it kept feeling like it was going somewhere and/or attaching itself to the main plot and then never did.There were some pretty glaring editorial issues, such as misspellings, spaces missing between words, and some inconsistent punctuation.  These weren't bad enough, for me, to take me out of the story, but they were obvious.The Abyss Above Us is a good book that needs some serious help.  And putting the two books together would probably be a good idea as well.