I had a hard time with this one when it came to rating it. I have decided that while I actually really enjoyed it, it’s a three-star read. The reasons are as follows:
• I feel that there were so many unnecessary details in this story. It felt wordy and it didn’t need to. It was a good story, but it came across to me that the author was trying to hit a certain word count and that ruined the story.
• Big words. Lots of them. This is fine, but this is not supposed to be a sophisticated storyline where those big words are not only necessary but helpful and add something to the story. To me, it felt like this actually detracted from the story itself.
• Random “main” characters that really didn’t add anything to the plot. I don’t know what else to say here, I think it speaks for itself.
The thing though, is that the story was GOOD. It started out slow and I didn’t understand it at first. About 100 pages in, it started to make sense and within another 50 pages I was hooked. Those first 100 pages were filled with introductions of the characters and it was pretty clear that every character with a name was being given an important role whether it was important to the story or not. There was a little bit of “romance” in this story. It felt forced. Like yeah yeah, a girl nicknamed “Flesh” is going to be having sex – but the way the scene was set and introduced was off-putting and totally out of the blue.
Overall, the storyline really saved this book. If you take out all the random nonsense (in my opinion it is nonsense anyway) it is an excellent story. I was left with a few questions, but that’s okay. I enjoy it when authors do that here and there. This is a story that doesn’t demand an absolute ending, but also doesn’t require a sequel to fill in any holes. It’s a story that will hold you tight and then leave you thinking about what really happened and how it really ended.