This is a 3-star execution for a 5-star idea. I think something like this would make for a great full-length book, but given what it was I just didn't feel enough time was given to the character development to really drive this story home. In other words, it was very promising but fell pretty flat in the last half. I would have given this a solid 3 stars instead of 3.5... but the last half of this story was saved by only being about 20 pages to get through. 

If someone reads this and knows a full-length novel along similar lines, I would love a book recommendation of it. 

Out of Amazon's Forward series with 1st being the best and 6th being the worst, this ranks 5th of 6.