Didn’t really work for me.

While not horrible, this book just didn’t really work for me. Now I understand that this is probably meant to be the first book in a series, and as such I wouldn’t have been surprised for there still to be a few questions left unanswered when I reached the end, but quite honestly I felt nothing at all had been answered. Second problem is that it felt way too busy. So many characters, so many species. It felt like the author wanted to prove he had a vivid imagination, which he clearly does, but it seemed like every character in the book was a different species, each with the own crazy details, trying to keep track of them all was a nightmares. Seriously there are had to be more than 25 different creatures to try and keep track of. I’d say save some for the sequel, but I have no doubt Mr. Bible has plenty of new ones already planned out for the next book. Sadly, with all those characters, I didn’t actually come to care about any of them. Don’t get me wrong, I was rooting for the good guys, but I wouldn’t have been upset had they died. Last but not least, the thing that drove me nut with this book was the the authors decision to make up silly words to replace swears. You want to swear, swear, but making up fake words to replace them just drove me nuts. I understand network TV shows doing this, they pretty much have it, and in some novels it feels natural/right, but here it just felt silly and excessive. Seriously it was fo this, and fo, and we’re fo’d!!! Seriously, if I heard fo one more time I was going to lose my foing mind!

I know this review may sound negative, but the truth is there was some good action. It was just overshadowed by too many characters, too many creatures, and too many fake foing expletives. I’d actually consider checking out one of his other books, but I don’t know that I could handle a sequel to this one.