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Review: Control Point

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Control Point
Control Point by Myke Cole
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I would have to say that I found Shadow Ops: Control Point to be a very enjoyable read. It will not likely fall into the realm of classics, but frankly few books do. But that aside, it was a well written storyline that drew you into the conflict that the main character, Oscar Britton, was going through.

The story takes place in a alternate version of Earth where powers have manifested in the population. The government’s reaction to these powers was to demand that all individuals who manifest them turn themselves into the government. They are then indoctrinated into a Military service branch designed specifically for them. If you choose not to turn yourself in, you are dubbed a ‘Selfer’ and hunted down. A subset of these groups are ones who are labeled as ‘Probes’. They are individuals who manifest powers in what the government has labeled a ‘Prohibited’ powerset. These individuals are tracked down with a unsettling gusto.

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Review: Grimspace

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Grimspace

Grimspace by Ann Aguirre

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Having completed this book, I have to say that there are definitely aspects to it that I liked a lot, unfortunately there were considerably more that I didn’t. With that in mind, it is unlikely that I will read any more of this series and I would be hard pressed to read more by this author.

While the concept of the story was very interesting, I didn’t really connect with any of the characters. They tended to be a bit more broody and passive-aggressive than I like. I recognize that the author tried to make at least one of them into the ‘Dark and Broody’ character type, unfortunately she really only succeeded in making him seem shallow and confrontational until the end where he become so emotionally unstable as to be practically laughable.

Worse, the whole story was haphazard. I constantly felt like the storyline was up in the air without any real direction. You met many individuals only to have them killed off quickly. Plot-lines were started, but never really went anywhere. You moved into new settings and situations that had no apparent bearing on anything, only to be jarred back in some other direction entirely. One of the worst parts is that the characters, who seem extremely intelligent, don’t seem to pick up on some of the most obvious hints that would have tipped them onto what was going on around them.

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