Review: Great start but falls flat....
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 9, 2011
This quick read starts off great.  You actually start to like the loser of a main character and the plot starts to get good and interesting, humorous and plausible (in an odd way...the megalocorporatons, that is) and then it just...ends.  Huh?  ...press back button a few times...no, I didn't skip anything...hmmmm...okay...The premise COULD be a great story.  This presentation is not even a teaser...not even a virtual taste.  It's like the difference between walking into a doughnut shop and driving by a doughnut shop.  Walking in, you're enveloped by that sweet yumminess and you can't wait to sink your teeth in, mouth watering and toes curling in anticipation (ok, maybe that's just me).  Driving by, you get a whiff of the baked goodness inside but by the next block you're smelling the exhaust of that Mack truck in front of you and the doughnut is long forgotten.  With this book, I wouldn't even honk while driving past that doughnut shop.  The majority of the  characters are flat, unnecessary or totally missed the mark, and it appears that the author just couldn't follow through to bring the story home.  You're taken down a path and left in the middle of nowhere...good luck gettin' home!  This story, with a bit more cultivating could have been so much more.