Review: Flight of Life, book one.  A good start to the series...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 9, 2014
I was asked to read and review this first book of this series.  The summary caught my interest.  They story is coming along well enough.  We get to meet our main group of characters, thus far and they all have some depth to them.The main story follows along with Calloway as our main person.  His mom died when he was young and his father is presumed dead also.  He lives with his sickly aunt and uncle along with his cousin.  They don't have much when it comes to materialistic items and money, but he lives in a loving family and his few friends he does have got his back.  He along with his cousin and friend work together to try to decipher a book about the Hara-Kirs and help save the world.Well Calloway appreciates everything that is given to him, his cousin wallows in self pity for being poor.  His cousin also resents him but it comes across that he feels guilty for it.  He really does love Calloway.  Their female friend is named Easton and she is good support to both of them.  As he attempted to do a good thing at school resulted in him being bullied constantly by a guy named Hawk.  As he struggles along with his life he also face fighting to save the world.It was never addressed HOW Calloway knew Easton could help decode the book he stole from an abandon library. At the beginning of the book he and his cousin acted like Easton was 'that girl' who turned into best friends.  But it never said how they knew that she knew a. about the Hara-Kirs and b. how to decode it(which we find out later, she learned from her sister).  Especially since it becomes apparent later on, only a select few are aware of them.That is another thing, the Hara-Kirs.  They appearantly run around and are these evil beings, like vampires. But only a handful of people know about them.  It took a good portion of the book to figure out that only some people know they exist/are real.  At first I thought 'Oh, only kids know about them'. Nope.  We find out that Easton was told by her sister and Calloway found out from his father, indirectly, who then confided in his cousin.Additionally, during the course of reading this story, I was waiting for him to find out that his father might be one...it said so in the summary.  It took a while.  There is an argument about who is father really is?  Is he a Hara-Kir? Is it possible to father a human? How are we certain Calloway really is a human?  It is just an assumption.The flow of story did not flow very smoothly. I am not sure if I can explain it well.  It wasn't the grammar errors(there were some), that doesn't take away from the story. I understand they way it was written, it was giving us details to help give the story depth.  There were some repeat of words, but nothing excessive. It just seemed like the sentences didn't flow as one thought.  It felt like each sentence was focusing on one thing at a time.  The dialogue flowed pretty well though.With all that said, I will most likely continue with the series.  I am curious how everything will pan out in the end.