Although the cover design and brief synopsis suggest a complete fantasy world, the opening chapters did not seem to establish this. I always appreciate the amount of work that a writer puts into the writing of a novel, but this book did not pull me into the story.
The opening scene is a somewhat unbelievable farewell handshake from the stereotypical flirtatious flight attendant to Elias, the exiting first class passenger who is carrying a suitcase. However, that palm-pressed piece of paper with a phone number seems to have no connection to the real action: Elias is trying to solve his parents’ murder and evidently save the world at the same time. The very first sentence on the second page mentions several strange, ominous names belonging to characters of formidable strength. Interestingly, these monsters resort to very human and very juvenile taunting about the small size of a man’s "prick." Elias temporarily escapes being murdered andreferences Earth as a “glorious planet." Perhaps we have some alien beings in this story?
With the start of Chapter Two, the first-person narration switches to a female character named Ophelia whose whole life has been a self-described emotional roller coaster, attributed to the fact that her mother had been born in an insane asylum while her grandmother was receiving electroshock therapy for schizophrenia. (Note- I’m not sure if that means during the birth process the shock therapy was going on.) Ophelia seems to be able to read people’s minds and know what emotions they are feeling from across a room.
This might develop into a very good story, but it is not a book for me.
The opening scene is a somewhat unbelievable farewell handshake from the stereotypical flirtatious flight attendant to Elias, the exiting first class passenger who is carrying a suitcase. However, that palm-pressed piece of paper with a phone number seems to have no connection to the real action: Elias is trying to solve his parents’ murder and evidently save the world at the same time. The very first sentence on the second page mentions several strange, ominous names belonging to characters of formidable strength. Interestingly, these monsters resort to very human and very juvenile taunting about the small size of a man’s "prick." Elias temporarily escapes being murdered andreferences Earth as a “glorious planet." Perhaps we have some alien beings in this story?
With the start of Chapter Two, the first-person narration switches to a female character named Ophelia whose whole life has been a self-described emotional roller coaster, attributed to the fact that her mother had been born in an insane asylum while her grandmother was receiving electroshock therapy for schizophrenia. (Note- I’m not sure if that means during the birth process the shock therapy was going on.) Ophelia seems to be able to read people’s minds and know what emotions they are feeling from across a room.
This might develop into a very good story, but it is not a book for me.