Might've been a great story in the end. I'll never know. I refuse to encourage or support authors that do this. I don't mind a cliffhanger of sorts, and understand the need to keep readers wanting more. However, when your book never even comes close to answering the questions in the premise and only muddies the waters further, I get frustrated. When you cut the action off mid-sequence, your book is not a cliffhanger. It's unfinished.



A great deal of the action and description could've been edited out of this book. We spend so much time laying the groundwork for this story, we never get to the story. The entire book, though well thought out and reasonably well written, is really just a prologue. We begin and end with exactly the same questions we had on page one.



Too bad too. I liked these characters and am extremely curious about all the mystery behind who they really are and what's really happening on the home planet. Extremely disappointed. In fact, I'd have gone with one star, but I really wanted to know what happened next. Had the author finished this one, I'd have bought the next just to read about them again. But I won't throw good money after bad, so they'll just have to sort it out without me.



I will NOT buy one book for the price of two. EVER. And I suspect, in this case it would be more like buying one book for the price of three, or even five. Dirty, dishonest trick used by authors too lazy to edit, and too greedy to deliver what they advertise. Won't be reading this author again for any reason. No matter how tempting.