An excellent story all around. I wasn't even aware of just how long it
was until I checked it's length bar on my kindle after the fact. The
story reads quickly and maintains a high degree of interest throughout.
It is somewhere between a superhero origin story and an urban fantasy.
Though I tend to include superhero fiction as a kind of urban fantasy.
The
conflict is personal with hints at a larger scale. The character is
focused on the people that relate to his life more than anything else.
Even being a basically good person, he is still realistically
self-centered, not in the nature of thinking he's better than everybody,
but in the nature that he simply doesn't think of things outside his
normal life. Which is realistic. Most people don't go around really
thinking about what happens to people they don't know. They might see
something on the news and talk about how something should be done, but
they don't really connect to the event outside the news reports. Joe's
focus on his personal concerns, petty or otherwise, that happen to
dovetail with deeper evils, is very refreshingly real.
The
supernatural elements of the story are both immediately obvious to the
reader and yet subtle enough that it's easy to see how everyone in the
story, including the main character, could overlook it. The characters
transformation over the course of the book and the development of these
powers is one of the most interesting facets of the story.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/330803
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