Michelle's corner

I was reading outside my usual genre here, which could be the cause of some of my difficulties. (my usual genre is technical reference. Peter Norton's book SO nailed the VGA subsystem on the IBM PC...)

Someone who is used to sci-fi/superhero would more readily grasp the things which didn't immediately resonate with me. Fortunately, Garner had laid an, "assistant," plot like the companion to Dr. Who (in the characters own mind) so that all could be explained and I was still carried along with the story; all I had to do was give the book enough time for that narrative to shine through.

The people felt real and I grabbed on to them, despite the unfamiliarity of a slightly different world with some new terminology.

My key problem was following the pacing of the action sequences and I had this nagging thing of; you know when you're watching a film and you know damn well that the revolver has fired more than six shots but you haven't seen the protagonist reload... yeh, that kind of feeling.

The story felt like many others of its kind. The same type of plot points and the same kind of two-sided battles, but that was unavoidable given the kind of story that this is; in fact, it is inevitable given how Garner set it up. However, he managed to put a few twists in there that I didn't see coming and, at the end of the day it is a rare story that hasn't been told before; it's all down to the execution and the best way I can sum this up, is that when I was about two-thirds-ish through this one, I made the decision to complete The Push Chronicles.