The Secret Root

[a:D.S. Cahr 5989401 D.S. Cahr https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1349439681p2/5989401.jpg]'s first novel promises good reading to come. There were some things I didn't care for (for instance the future fashions just made no sense to me), but overall [b:The Secret Root 20512254 The Secret Root (The Mesh Chronicles Book 1) D.S. Cahr https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1410033445s/20512254.jpg 19927373] held my interest. I am a bit of a sucker for stories about time-travel and teenagers in peril. (Three and one-half stars rounded up to four).

I really liked this book. It does seem to have borrowed a lot of plots from other stories though. In chapter 15 alone I felt like there were shades of The Matrix, Stargate SG-1, Fringe, the Australian TV-show Parallax, Star Trek: Enterprise, Buffy season 6 and the Hitchhikers series of novels. But this gets kind of an explanation in chapter 33 that makes the use of those other plots seem like it was meant to make us think of other stories if that makes sense. The story as a whole is engaging and I kept reading on wanting to know what happened next.

The story does however end on a kind of a cliffhanger and even though book number two in the series is expected in 2015 that might be something of a turn off for some.