PG's Books

The book blurb sounded interesting. Sadly enough this book did not impress me. The basic story is not too bad and the writing itself is acceptable. The major problem I have with this book is that it plays out too much like an American TV-series. It is a rather unbelieavable ride of conspiracies, twists and changes of fortune and rapid scene changes. Personally I never really felt like I cared very much about any of the characters.

To make matters worse the author also starts to meddle with time. He does not go as far as time travel but both slowing down time when going from one room to another and hibernation is on the menu. The result is an increasing mess of people suddenly being different persons that actually lived in a different time as well as the story partly advancing months by the turn of a page.

To me the author replaced effort that should have gone into thinking through the details of the story and coming up with a compelling implementation of the basic idea with simply throwing as many Hollywood clichés, Nazis, messing with time, conspiracies on top of conspiracies etc… into the mix and shake well.

Maybe the book is just not my cup of tea but I am not impressed with it and I will probably not bother reading more books in this series.