Review: How can all previous reviews be 5 stars? Seems fishy to me.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 9, 2013
I've bought about a dozen of PS Power's books, from The Ancients, The Infected, Other Places series. My favourite is The Infected.I have to say I'm quite disappointed by the last few books I've bought from all three series, including Goblin. In essence, all the characters seem to be introverted and speak in the same indefinite manner. Names can pretty much be interchangeable. Tor/Timon/Keeley/Goblin says: they don't understand why a,b, and c happens. If they do this, then that should be alright, shouldn't it? or; they have no experience making decisions, but everyone around them just nods their heads in agreement. Each character has potential to be something special, and yet the dialogue is almost copy and pasted from each book. At least in The Ancient's series the introversion and overly compliant nature of Tor is explained as a genetic feature.As for Goblin, the book, itself, it is really very boring. It's good to get a further insight into Tobin's character, but this series has always been equally about developing the world of the infected as well. I would say that 90% is just about Tobin having very sad and lonely thoughts, and very occasionally something of note happening. If Tobin is not going to play a major role in the World of the Infected, as have all the previous characters (Brian, Dennis, etc) then please don't waste our time. Write another Brian book. The most important piece of the puzzle involves him. It is literally the Evil mastermind against Brian. Why waste an entire book about Tobin? Sure, give him a few chapters, if you want, but he remains a side character with no role in the important plot of good versus evil in The Infected.I truly enjoy The Infected series. I prefer it to all his other series. Goblin is hopefully an aberration and the next one will be a return to form.I know most people have written 5 star reviews, but I really doubt the sincerity of some of them. When you look at their review history, every review has been 5 stars for kindle released books. That seems quite fishy to me. There have been reports of companies which you can hire to write multiple glowing reviews for your book/product. .......Ok guys, let the "not helpful" ratings begin.