Charlie

Solid book. The main protagonist is very moody and this is conveyed via ponderous paragraphs of interior monologue. Those good be cut some. But there's a definite progression of character and it's well written. It's kind of an evil Harry Potter in a dystopian Martian fantasy scape. looking forward to book two

This was definitely one of my favorite books of this series.

I was quite surprised how much I enjoyed this. It's not my usual fare but I got the sense it was truly written in his voice. It impressed me how honest he was about his faults and mistakes. And I think it's important people who care deeply about this kind of thing to hear his side, unvarnished. It can't be argued that he wasn't treated horribly and his family did not stand up for him in the way he needed. Very sad. Really good read.

Entertaining as always. Slower pace which generally worked. But the last few chapters dragged. By the end of the hunger games in this one, I was done, with about 50 pages to go. Still fine to read.

I wanted to like this book. Really I did and maybe I would if I was not often tired and busy. But this is one of those hooks that is written in it's own kind if stole and it just didn't draw me in and was hard for me to follow. The writing was good, the author is obviously good at it, it just didn't grab me. A little too out there for me right now. Maybe some day