Review: Good Story, Same Concerns
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 12, 2013
This book is a sequel or, at least, a second writing by the author.  With experience, the author continues a good story and offers some creative ideas involving the paranormal, necromance, and the idea of the dead passing permanently--or perhaps not so permanently--through a bright light after their bodies die on earth.  It also provides romance and comedy, artistic appreciation, and mystery created through insanity and class warfare.  All contribute to a good basic plot.  Characters are deliberately disguised as people they are not, and others are believed to be genuine while, in actual fact, are quite transparent.  The great number of spirits encountered are a bit startling and are initially unbelievable, though a thorough understanding of the plot line explains this seeming discrepancy.  The reader will be challenged to know real and unreal, theory and reality, believeable and unbelieveable even as the basic plot moves forward with creativity and surreal experiences that entice the reader to continue turning pages.However, the basic plot is too basic at points, with the author simply narrating a transition of events rather than letting the reader experience each such incident;  it's almost as if the writer became bored or rushed and wanted to just get done with the effort needed for that particular line of thought.  While the paranormal angles are explored well, the basic life processes are glossed over and, upon completion of the book, the reader could be forgiven for believing that the contrived controversy in this second novel is almost superfluous.While the book is definitely worth the $1.99 Kindle price, there are grammatical concerns, particularly with possessives and the use of commas with dependent and independent phrases.  The misuse of commas is greatly distracting, and the author should consider either enrolling in a basic composition course or hiring a good editor;  with the grammatical errors corrected and perhaps a bit more effort placed on the background story, this author could entertian literary success far beyond the limited success this novel deserves.