Review: A Little Dark, but Very Compelling
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 10, 2013
I've been a fan of James Somers since reading "The Chronicles of Soone" several years ago. I've found all of his books to be action-packed page-turners. With "Fallen," I feel that his writing has reached a new level of impressiveness. His characters are richer and more nuanced than before. A good example of this is "Charlotte," a vampire acquaintance (and semi-friend and partial ally) to Brody. She, in fact, becomes even more interesting in the next book. And Oliver James is very cool!My one nit-pick is that the main protagonist, Brody, is supposedly seventeen. Yet, at the beginning of the book, he's acting and behaving much younger than that. Still....I got pretty attached to Brody at the beginning of the book, especially given what happens to him shortly after arriving in London.I would also say that this book is a little dark. There's much more evil than good in this one. And the circumstances, at times, are pretty grim. Still, it's very absorbing. Once I got into it, it was very hard to put the book down. I finished it in a day. I'm now halfway into Book 2.This is definitely worth your time, especially if you at all like fantasy fiction.