kuzumel reviewed on 5/21/2015 + 112 more book reviews

Lots of setup, moody music (so to speak), back stories galore, and literally murky lurkers coming out of shadows and woodwork. And if you like reading the first half of a X-Files type conspiracy book but can't find the second half, then this is the book for you.

I liked the world building KH is doing in this volume, but it didnot deserve a stand alone book. It's not the length - Nancy Kress' "Before the Fall. During the Fall. After the Fall" is much less than this, jumps around the timeline a lot, and spends more than half the time talking. But it was ececuted as a novella, and even if you don't know what happens afterwards, the storyline of the book came to a conclusion.

No clear resolution with this "book" exists other than the conspiracy moving onwards. Our nominal hero/heroine have coffee and delivery. Our villian remains inscrutable, although his role goes into very gray territory. Our favorite FBI couple shows up and we have a few nice moments with them, nut they coulda phoned their presence into the story given how little they actually contribute to advancing the story.

All that said. This was better written and plotted than the first book in the series. Which says a lot about how disjoint The First Prophet was.

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Kuzu

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