Review: One minor point that was major for me
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 3, 2012
I have to confess, for once a book jarred me out of the suspension of disbelief. The author started well, compelling setting, the two protagonist I found were very interesting, I wanted to read more of them, and the set up for the invasion went well.Then they appear to do something extremely noble, yet it was ill thought out. Their insistence of evacuating children only would make sense IF they were going to turn them over to someone else they knew and trusted to take care of them or if the two protagonist were going to look after them.Part of the point of '-women- and children first' is not just a sexiest chauvinism towards women. Someone has to take care of the children (and it could be a man, I'm not against that). Just picking them up and dumping them somewhere you think safe isn't so noble in the long term. That's reckless.I wouldn't have minded if they were going to turn them over to someone specific or picked up someone they knew would look after the kids. It might have worked if our two heroes were going to look after them, but it didn't seem like it was that kind of book for this latter point.Survival is more than just removing children from danger, they have to be looked after. They aren't just mini-adults who can take care of themselves after being removed from danger. If you have no choice, sure, yes do that. But they had a choice and made a point, several times, of making their ill thought out choice under the guise of nobility and doing the right thing.It as a real shame. I wanted to get to know the two characters well, but I could not get over that point. I even skipped ahead and still it plagued me. Some will find that point a minor one that could easily be ignored. I couldn't.One of the times I just could not finish a book that had engaged me. I see there are more in the series and I wish the author well. I might even try to plow back into book one some day because that jarring point had little to do with the plot as far as I could tell.I just couldn't re-engage my suspension of disbelief beyond this point.