Indenture, First book in the Mystic Saga Series by Scott McElhaney.I know of 5 books in the Mystic Saga but not sure if that concludes the series. I'll be reviewing all 5 over the near future. Our protagonist in this book is Declan who goes through a rather amazing set of very creative science fiction circumstances that, to me, are remarkably “science” fiction. I never really sorted that out in my head..;. DEEE CLAN, or Deck clan. Oh well, my problem really. I used both pronunciations interchangeably for my own amusement. We start a jolt that appears to be a robbery of some undesirable criminal element, a get away, and our protagonist being shot, crashing, and landing in a hospital where medical treatment requires an MRI which is the pivot point for nearly all the upcoming and unexpected twists and turns that spans both space and time. It is a very fast read. While the cast of characters are a little thin in 'character development' it reads enough like a short story that it isn't terribly distracting. By the time you get rather interested in the final set of twists you realize it is the final twists of the book. The Goodread stars claim 3 stars is I liked it. 4 would be I really liked it. I'd go 3.5 but am rounding down. Scott McElhaney does deserve a nod of approval. It is rather difficult to write a book that reads this fast. I was done with this one in nothing flat. Granted it was only around 85 pages long (difficult to say with Kindle's percentages rather than pages) but still finished twice as fast as 85 pages would normally take for me to read. I'll be starting the second book in the series almost immediately, even though I have 4 other books on my plate just now. Congratulations Scott, good job. This was definitely an interesting read. I'm a little disappointing that it was less than a hundred pages. It felt like thins story should have been about 500 pages. The story was pretty good with a couple of sneaky twists thrown in.I'm going to have to start on the second one as soon as possible, I really want to get some questions answered, that's when you know you've read a good book, when you have questions you have to answer.
What do You think about Indentured (2012)?
The plot was quite choppy. It had a number of plot lines that confused me.
—shawn
Eh.... not going to bother reading the rest of this series.
—Margie
