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Written on Jan 6, 2009
The story here is very captivating, because you can’t ever by sure whether Pierce will succeed in saving Okari’s life, or if they will all lose. Unfortunately, it does fall flat in a few places. The situation in Luandia is explained over and over and over again in the first third of the book, until you just want to shout, “Okay, I get it! It’s a hellhole!” How many times do we have to be shown the same situations? I feel like Patterson is shoving his own personal politics down our throats a bit. Also, Pierce is a very underdeveloped character. You know about his career and his feelings for Marissa, but I never felt like I really knew him. But when it was all said and done, I felt it was a compelling, solid read and I was very glad I had read it.