robosquid's review
3.0
This book is part of a series and you can tell that it's been padded out to stretch the story into 4 parts. It was slow moving (to the extent of being boring on occasions) and I didn't particularly like the attitudes of the two main characters, who turned from enemies into lovey-doveys at the flick of a switch on a chance second encounter. It seemed unrealistic, as was their cringe-worthy dialogue.
There were quite a few errors, some quite amusing:
- what is a "temporal thermometer" - can it tell the time?
- "he was out of site"
- "rise to the level of an endemic." - endemic what? Perhaps pandemic?
Worst of all, a senior doctor suggesting an antibiotic as a treatment for Ebola, which is a virus, not a bacteria. Every doctor knows this. Perhaps I am being fussy but clearly a lot of research has been done for this book (you can tell from the info-dumping!) so the author should not have made this glaring mistake.
As for the plot, it's quite up-to-date with ISIS as the baddies and a US president who cares more about his re-election prospects than saving the citizens of his country. I will probably move on to book 2 because other reviews say the action picks up.
There were quite a few errors, some quite amusing:
- what is a "temporal thermometer" - can it tell the time?
- "he was out of site"
- "rise to the level of an endemic." - endemic what? Perhaps pandemic?
Worst of all, a senior doctor suggesting an antibiotic as a treatment for Ebola, which is a virus, not a bacteria. Every doctor knows this. Perhaps I am being fussy but clearly a lot of research has been done for this book (you can tell from the info-dumping!) so the author should not have made this glaring mistake.
As for the plot, it's quite up-to-date with ISIS as the baddies and a US president who cares more about his re-election prospects than saving the citizens of his country. I will probably move on to book 2 because other reviews say the action picks up.
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