Review: This story is far from complete.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 30, 2013
1. The missing punctuations really made reading this book incredibly difficult.  I don't know what the authors point in not using any quotation marks were, but whatever he was trying to do, he failed.2. There are way too many details missing from the story.  For example: Tasneem survives while everyone dies the treatment. No explanation given on how or why she lived.  A revolution happened,  and the only mention of it is that it failed but succeeded in its goal.  There is no real mention of the relation of time from one story to the next.3. Character development is weak.  You don't really get to know any if the characters in depth in this novel.  New characters are introduced for the sake of describing some event, but they are never to be seen again.  I suppose that Tasneem is the main character,  but even her appearance in the book is quite brief.I read through the whole book because I thought that it had some potential, but it just continued to disappoint.There where some nice touches in the book though.  While you didn't get to know many of the characters, the story of Micah was solid.  I was able to resonate with what he was going through,  and the story really did a good job of building his character so you feel like you got to know him.  This book needed a lot more of this.For what it is, this book is way too short.  There seems to be too much story, which had potential, but was lacking because there was not enough space to give details and descriptions.What I do hope is that Jason Gurley would go back, spend the time to really flesh out the characters and story making the people and events of this book matter to the reader.  That is a book that would be worth reading.