Here is a book that starts out with a bang and takes you on
a ride that only gets better and better.
The characters were rich and the horrors that befell upon them
vivid. By the time I reached the books
cliffhanger ending I desperately wanted to pick up the next installment simply
to learn if the people I’d come to care about would make it out of their
current situation as planned.
I didn’t find myself any too attached to the main character,
unfortunately. I found his wife a much
tougher breed of hero. Still, given the
situation that he was in prior to almost the end of the story, I wouldn’t have
expected him to behave any differently than he did. When the time came, we got a glimmer of who
the man really is and how he might break out and show us his quality in the
next installment.
It’s a difficult thing to write a book with changing POVs
and to do so in a successful manner. But
it’s also the type of book that I really like because it gives me perspective
not only on the motivation of the characters, themselves, but how others see
them. Especially when you throw in
opportunists who justify their less than honorable actions in a crumbling
society. Kevin J. Howard certainly
managed to bring out both the best and worst of the characters at the exact
time you’d expect to see it.
I read another review by a reader who didn’t like the lack
of sci-fi in this book. I may have to
lean toward agreement that, for now, the genre is mislabeled. But that didn’t really disturb me too much as
I found the pages turning quickly and a lunch hour or two passing by far too
swiftly. At the end of the day, Howard
has delivered a solid story with great potential to become even better still in
books two and three.
If you’re the type of reader who likes to get lost in a
story, this book is one to definitely consider.
Precipice: The Beginning is
available on Amazon.com in both print and kindle format. Note that, as of the posting of this review,
the kindle version is on sale for $0.99.
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