Review: The series is growing on me...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 13, 2014
I reviewed the first SODIUM book rather critically, and one of the things I mentioned was that there is no dialogue in these books. None. They are 100 percent first person narrative, and in the first book I just couldn't get past that. Something about it bothered me.Despite this, I didn't give up on Mr. Arsenault. I began reading the second volume (this book) and liked how he took the story forward in time, and how the protagonist of this book was a minor character (literally) that had appeared in the last few pages of book 1.There's still no dialogue, but it doesn't bother me now. It's like these books are diaries that were kept by the main character in each. I'm actually on book 4 now, with plans to read the entire series.I should mention that there are little niggly things about spelling and punctuation that crop up here and there, and those bother me, but I am overlooking them because I want to find out what happens "in the end." These are mostly things like using "too" when he should use "to" ("...if there was a home to return too."), and failing to put a comma between city names and their states ("Atlanta Georgia" instead of "Atlanta, Georgia"). Both of these are inconsistent, and I have certainly seen worse, but these books could use an editor's touch. (I'm available.)