Review: Excellent First Novel!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 8, 2013
After downloading several "samples" by a variety of authors, I decided to purchase Mr. Lock's book.  I'm extremely happy I did.  If you are a fan of this type of novel, you will truly enjoy the story.  The story line and characters are interesting, well developed and very engrossing.  At the end of the book, Mr. Lock asks for feedback - positive and negative.  So here it is (in my humble opinion).Good - Great storytelling "voice".  The book drags you into the story and keeps you there.  In a very short time you are caring about the heroes, admiring the innovations, and totally engrossed in the book.  Spoiler - the end actually caused me to tear up, a really rare condition.Bad - even though I hate the reviews that harp on grammatical and/or spelling errors, I'm sorry I have to point out that this book has numerous errors.  At first it really didn't bother me much, everyone can miss a few (ill instead of I'll; james instead of James).  However in this book it is truly awful.  Many times words would be spelled obviously by Spellcheck that missed contextual usage or Mr. Luck would (accidently I hope) use a homonym incorrectly.  Strongly suggest Mr. Luck find and utilize a good editor/reader - not for content, just to catch these errors.  They were really distracting in what was otherwise a great novel.Also a little Bad - the opening scene isn't readdressed until almost 75% of the way through the book.  The character, James, is awesome but the little sideline plot really doesn't get developed in the book.  It didn't detract from my enjoyment of the book, in fact I really enjoyed the James character, but that entire arc either needed to be more developed or left out (not James of course, just the background part of the arc).Thank you Mr. Lock for publishing this novel.  I truly hope you publish more soon - if they are all this quality I will definitely become one of your biggest fans!