moeeyc 's review for:

Free Falling by Susan Kiernan-Lewis

3.0

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The author was kind enough to give me a copy of the ebook, so before I even had a Kindle, I started reading it on my computer. And then I stopped at 61%, and never took it up again for more than a year. My bad, not fair to the author. This is really a 2.5 for me. The story was good, I am fine with post-apocalyptic tales, but I did have a hard time with the graphic violence perpetrated by the villain, an Irish gypsy sociopath named Finn. I am a little bothered also that it seems to perpetuate the stereotype of gypsies as a criminal element. But a decent story overall. I was very surprised though to find now as I went to look at other works by the author, that while this book seemed to end quite finally at home in the U.S., the story in fact continued through two more novels. Perhaps the author had a change of heart and changed the original ending. Since the blurb for book 2 suggests that violence continues, I'll probably pass.