I really enjoyed reading this - it is an almost theatrical combo of genres all rolled into one action packed story.

Like others i protested (not silently) at the all caps cliff hanger

and then used even worse language when I realized the next two in the triology were not available for my kindle ereader - which taught me something abt my new expectation for books that I'd like to share and talk about a bit:


if I have to spend proportionally more time seeking a book out, finding a good vendor, waiting for the book to arrive, and using a not so perfect book light to read, then I'm starting to expect more out of it than writing distributed as an ebook.

Those non-books are going to have to be 'worth my while' much more so than a book that is easy to locate, purchase or borrow and read electronically - and that's a shame bcs it used to be that my reader's effort to find and even wait for a book was part of the fun of the anticipation of reading, now it's a roadblock ?

It used to be that my reader's effort counted so little against the author's many hrs that I usually felt I had little ground to stand on when it came to complaining abt how hard a book was to find, or how long the wait was between books written in series - but now when we can binge watch whole series on tv and they are even sometimes being first released 'complete' my expectation has shifted -

readers, like film and tv viewers, are expecting (and getting) instant gratification from e-delivery most of the time - it's changing how we read and what we're willing to read.

I still have a couple stacks of print books going from bookstores and libraries that contribute to my to-read pile, but that alone doesn't make me immune from the feeling that if a book's harder to get, that somehow it better be worth it in a new way that requires it to meet higher standards for writing and entertainment (so subjective) than ever before . . .