Parts of this book deserve 4 stars, parts maybe 1 star. The book starts out quite well, becomes miserably bogged down in the middle, and redeems itself in the last third. The first third does a great job of setting up for us who the two primary characters are; in the middle third the primary char...
Humble I opened my eyes, and the mudflats vanished, leaving a whiff of ocean and a tooth-deep case of the shivers. Phil, who had been reading on the sofa next to me, put a fat white mug into my chilled hands. He wrapped an arm around me with a whiskery, “Welcome back, Ren.” I breathed in green te...