Review: impressed by characters
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 27, 2012
Positives: This book is sold as urban fantasy, but it is not at all the sort of thing I expect when thinking of this genre. Toby, his friend Carl, Lara from nextdoor and her brother Andy are all rendered as real people. The relationships and dialogue between the main characters are all kinds of awesome. You can feel Toby's pain as he tries to hide his unusual ability, as he tries to save Penelope's son, and tries to make the world a better place for everyone.Negatives: Not much to say here. The book is tautly-written, and while a bit plot-meander-y, wholly within expectations of character-oriented fiction. The only thing that bugged me a bit, and that is-speaking as a writer, and it's a very minor issue-was the abundance of rhetorical questions in the narrative. But only in the first half, and in the second half, the narrative became condident enough not to need them. But the editor in me was pulling out the virtual red pencil.