My Book Review: Flight of Shadows by Sigmund Brouwer
Flight of Shadows is the sequel to Broken Angel even though I've never read the first book, Sigmund Brouwer does a job good in telling this story for those that haven't read the pervious book. He creates and describes what the near-future of America is like. The land is ruled by greed, poverty, genetic experimentation, illegal immigration that are struggling to survive and to find happiness and so on. But through all that Caitlyn Brown is trying to stay free, to be normal and to live a normal life. However the deformity on her back keeps her from doing so because her DNA is the key to unraveling secrets of humanity and it's future. Which is the reason why the government is so determine to track her down and catch her. It also doesn't help that others also wish to come after her for her uniqueness too.
At first the book, didn't suck me into it the first few chapters but after a while, especially when the focus is on Caitlyn that I do. It's not a bad story but sometimes I get the feel that something is lacking in it. I feel like its lacks character depth. I didn't connect that much with some of the other characters in the book, even Caitlyn. Though I did find Razor to be interesting. He was unpredictable but also solid, knowing that as an illusionist he carried himself so well, that to us readers we were unsure on how to make of him. Bad or good? After all, he's a rather mysterious young man with his own secrets and these secrets could make him an ally or an enemy for Caitlyn. All in all, I didn't mind reading this. Despite that lack of character depth to some of the characters, it's a pretty good read. It wasn't something that had me jumping in excitement to read all in one day but it was still good.
I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group from the books program but was not required to write a positive review.
 DamnBlackHeart · Mon Dec 13, 2010 @ 09:05pm · 0 Comments |
