Review: Enjoying story but needs some work
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 2, 2013
The novel, Deep Echoes, by Sean P. Wallace takes place in the fictitious land of Geos. We follow the story of Maya, a young woman about to finish her training as a Contegon, a religious warrior. Maya suffers from a crisis of faith and decides to flee on the eve of her graduation. Her roommate, Chain, is unable to stop her and must suffer the consequences of having a heretic as a friend and roommate. During her flight, Maya takes advantage of the teenage boy Snow and Snow must also suffer consequences due to his brush with the heretic.The people of Geos worship Sol, a sun God, and they are fighting the Disciples and Brya, the followers of technology and science. One of the disciples, Babbage, has developed an advanced Disciple, without any weaknesses, and thus the century-long war between the followers of Sol and the Disciples is about to explode.Overall I enjoyed reading this story. Wallace is a good storyteller and the story kept my interest. Unfortunately, the misspellings and grammatical errors were plentiful and interfered with my reading enjoyment. I also felt the story was a bit chaotic in the start. There were several story lines going at once and it took a while for the characters to develop enough for the reader to gain interest in following each narrative. If these issues were solved, I would happily give Wallace a higher rating.There were several aspects of the story that remained unexplained at the end of the book. Wallace is probably hoping to start a series. That’s great but I feel the reader should be told of this before starting the book.