Review: It was okay
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 31, 2011
This review contains spoilers. Continue at your own risk.This was the first book that I ever read by David McAfee.We're both on KindleBoards, and that's how I found out that Saying Goodbye to the Sun was free. Naturally, I one-clicked it immediately.The book takes place in the mid-eighties and focuses on a man named Vincent Walker.Right from the start, I knew that I liked Mr. McAfee's writing style and the way that he started the book off. I especially enjoyed Vincent's interactions with Raine. I didn't even mind the unexpected sex scene between them a few chapters in.It didn't take me long to know that I'd enjoy the book.Unfortunately, the first half of the book was the only half that I'd call good.Though I enjoyed the first half of the book, the actual plot became during the second half. It was kind of like Thor, which spent too much time on what led to the beginning of the story. The problem here, is that the first half was exciting and fun, but it did not stay that way during the second half.Very little time was spent on Vincent hunting down Raine, and in the end, Raine dies off-screen, Vincent becomes a character that is impossibly to sympathize with, and none of the characters left alive are likeable in the least.With all that said, I do think that the book was still okay. It wasn't good, but it wasn't bad either.So would I be willing to read another one of David McAfee's books?Yes, I would. After all, this was supposedly an early work, and writer's tend to get better as they get more experience.