It kept my attention just fine and never once did I wonder why I was still reading. Action, character development, twists, they're all there. If THEY are bored, then what the hell do you think the READER is? A HUGE editing session would have been absolutely delightful. There are much better ways to develop characters than have them tell me, the reader, that they're bored. And that's just about it for the first 60% of the novel. We get to do a bit of light exercise, play video games, read magazines, take showers, and do nothing much else than joshing around with each other AT A FARM. There was only one briefly terrifying event that mostly happened off stage, and then we're treated to a new setting. As a means to get to know the characters and flesh them out, it was slow and annoying, and perhaps there's a lot of people out there that like this kind of really light entertainment, but I kinda expected a lot more out of a novel that has peeps with freaking SUPER POWERS based on nothing more handwavium-powered than simple WILLPOWER (and a bloodline). Almost immediately after the rescue, I was dismayed to find out that I was going to be reading about a bunch of fairly well-behaved college freshmen in dorm, doing a bit of light exercise, playing video games, reading magazines, taking showers, and doing nothing else except joshing around with each other. The opening was fine, although I could have done with a few better character hooks to make them stand out better and keep my interest. It probably isn't, but that' just my impression. It tends to bring the apparent age of the characters down to the mid-teen level instead of the 17+ range that they're actually in, so I get the impression it's actually YA. It may not be the best snark I've ever read, or even making it into the top 20, but it is snark.
If you like Urban Fantasy and expect snark as a matter of course, the novel has it, too. We have firmly established that the Sky Ghosts are superheroes battling the other super group, the Beasts. There's some pretty good video games out there. I was consistently reminded that I was probably reading a video game script during the last 40% of the novel, and that's not a bad thing in my estimation. Good finale, good action, good eventual character development, even a nice celluloid ending. Thanks to the author for providing me a copy for an honest review. Overall I do think other people will enjoy this book, and it looks like I’m one of the few people who didn’t really enjoy it, but I think this was maybe just not the book for me. The ending to this was okay, and I’m pretty sure the good guys prevailed, the epilogue did then leave us with a bit of a cliff-hanger. I don’t know if this was just me, or if the writing style just didn’t do it for me, but it took me several attempts to get through this book, because I just got so confused as to what was going on. I couldn’t really work out what was going on or why, and things would happen and I just didn’t understand the significance. The storyline in this had quite a lot of action, but I found it confusing. Once I’d worked out that they were all 17+, I did think that they were maybe a little immature, as they came across as quite a bit younger than 17. The characters in this didn’t really appeal to me all that much, and I found it really difficult to pinpoint how old they were. This was a YA fantasy story with lots of action, but I found it quite confusing.
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