Review: I Had Hoped for More
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 13, 2013
I picked this up when it was offered for 99 cents. It was unclear that this was a short story as it was billed as #1 in the series. I like the idea of trying a new author out before investing my reading time and significant money in them.  For the most part I have found quite a few authors I would have otherwise passed over.  I have also found a few less impressive efforts.Unfortunately, this is one of the less impressive. This by the way is really a short story and not a novella.  It is rather sketchy and I think the author is using it to set up a relationship between the FBI and his main character for future works.  I didn't find the writing bad but uninspired.  Really little effort put in building the environment for his stories, He somehow came up with the names Zoogle, Bling and Clikon for tech companies.  These aren't even imaginative just slightly altered company names.  His plot wasn't any more imaginative.  I expected Wahoo and Yapple to be introduced at any moment. Lacking any other plot elements he author seemed to channel "Fifty Shades of Gray" in the episode on the airplane.So I was having trouble deciding if this was suspense, mystery or mommy porn.  I picked it up as suspense, not really a fan of mommy porn.I just couldn't find enough to like or relate to the characters well enough to make we want to read anything else by this author.