Review: Interesting short novel
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 11, 2013
Contains some spoilers - proceed with cautionOkay, so just finished this short little novel. I have a lot of books on my TBR list, but after seeing some things on the group discussion about a "pool scene," I had to go head and move this one to the front of the pack.I liked the story, as I am a fan of post-apocalyptic tales. There were some minor grammatical things that wouldn't take much to fix. I did like the MC, even though he was selfish. I don't mind that. I like it when the character comes to life and Nad really did and so did Suzannah. I actually would have liked to see more of her.The reason I only liked this book and did not love it was because it didn't seem like there was much to it and the BIGGEST thing I need in a book are story questions that keep me swiping the pages. I didn't really find anything that I was dying to know about. (Besides that pesky pool scene :) When a book starts, I want to be curious from the very beginning and there just really wasn't anything that was propelling me forward.SPOILERS COMINGAnd the other little complaint I would have is I felt like there were a quite a few things that could have been explained. Back to that pool scene again. What WAS that exactly? Also, how did this all begin? Why was everyone okay with the Hitler like principal? It made me sad that people would just sit by and allow people to be executed, people that used to be their friends.Overall, this had the potential to be great and if it had a little more substance to it (and was cleaned up a bit), it might have been. The writing is good and this author will be one to watch for.