![]() ![]() The couple had plans marriage, children, a life together but the events of that book sundered all of them and they didn't care. I was especially disappointed with the lack of any real emotions between the main character and his/her girlfriend. ![]() I just kept thinking no one would act that way. Perhaps the biggest disappointment of this book was the lack of good characters. The main character practically killed one by accident experimenting with her powers. It's hard to see the thirty foot badies as an actual threat when the good guys are dispatching them without breaking a sweat. The author literally dedicated more pages to a synopsis of a radom magazine article the main character read to pass the time on the way to work than she did on any of the fight scenes. The action scenes were all short and lacked any real tension. Especially the first half of the book which was so devoid of plot it could be skipped with little loss to the story. The book was filled long awkwardly worded exposition that was mostly unrelated to the plot. ![]() The biggest problem was that it was boring. The premise was interesting but execution was very flawed. The old Chinese curse, “may you live in interesting times” certainly went out of its way to introduce itself to him. It became ever more strange when he met someone at lunch in the studio commissary. which might or might not pop up here and there as he flowed through what he thought was his life. Plans which he never saw coming and which proved to be far more invasive to his rather simplified existence as a stunt person not that being a stunt person is simple but he hadn’t allowed for. His academics were excellent and he was going for an advanced degree after having earned two bachelors degrees at the ripe old age of twenty. He had his life pretty much planned out and he was on his way, eventually entering the college of his choice at the State University. Anyway what little he yielded from work went into savings to be held for use toward his college education. After so many years of earning money to pay his union dues and his agent and his medical insurance company. It all began when he was less than a year old and snowballed from there. No, he was far too deeply involved in the motion picture business by then. Being of slight build, although muscular, he didn’t get into sports when in middle and high school. The old Chinese curse, “may you live in interesting times” certainly went out of its way to introduce itself to him.Dennis is a stunt man, er. ![]()
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