Review: Starts Well
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 13, 2012
Initially I was gripped by the story, an alien delivery driver crashes his space ship and his cargo an "Elemental" escapes and the delivery driver needs to capture it.Although what an elemental actually is develops throughout the story and how nasty it is, the descriptive passages that cover the elemental are very well done and it allows you to visualise this creature. It is a pity that less time is devoted to the delivery driver.The humans in the story, mainly victims of the elemental have all individual stories to tell and somehow I felt the aliens had been described better than the humans. Perhaps the story was too long as the middle part had many similar scenes however when it got near the end it seemed that the author had lost interest and rushed the ending as I felt it was difficult to follow and not sure why some of it happened.A good idea spoilt by the ending, as far as I know this is a standalone novel but there are enough surviving characters and loose ends to allow a sequel.