Review: Creative, yes.  Great, no.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 10, 2012
What a wild world Kirby Morre conjured up in Starfall City.  Here is a place where dimensional rifts have brought two different versions of martians to Earth, raised Athlantean sorcerors from the depths and given some humans super-powers allowing them to compere in this new and dangerous world.The idea had a lot of flair and imagination behind it.Unfortunately, the plot and writing couldn't keep up with the idea.  Characters were introduced unevenly.  In some cases the full history of characters was kept incomplete. I found that I could puzzle out character motiviations, but it was far more difficult than it needed to be.Worse in my opinion, Kirby tries to weave a very complex plot with characters engaging in multiple levels of deception.  This is becoming very common in the writing world, and while it was interesting the first couple of times I encountered it, should only be attempted by an experienced author.  Kirby approaches the problem with flair, but does a very poor job with the final reveal.  It was anticlimatic when it occured and in a way negated much of the plot build up to that point when the story flipped in a completely new direction.This was a well-written book, but after reading books like Ex-Heroes and Wearing the Cape, it just failed to impress me.  The concept was there, but without Kirby Moore taking mroe time to examine his characters and develop them a bit more, I felt the story was a bit flat.