A review by bookwormmichelle
Afterimage by J. Kowallis

4.0

Ugh. Rating books is hard. This one was a toughie. In general, I liked it. It was engrossing, fast-paced, intense. It was an interesting post-apocalyptic world, and I liked the two main characters. So that's quite a lot of positives. BUT . . . Well, there are problems. One is the occasionally awkward writing, full of errors that should have been caught and edited. Come on, people, sight/site is not that hard to use properly. There were lots of little things like that. And at times the author seemed almost not quite ready to give us what we need--the current world situation is going to be explained! Wait, not really, we're going to stop just shy of that. You are finally going to understand Reggie and what she has seen! Well, OK, not really, we're just going to get a teaser and move on. Then a tossed-in comment after the action. Lots of little problems in plot. At one time, there's not enough gasoline to go anywhere. Some time later, they go somewhere anyway. Where'd the gas come from? We are brought to a very intense scene with lots of problems---- and then somehow "offscreen" several days pass and everyone is OK. How???? The Public has complete biometric data and biographies of every person. But Nate could use his service number to break into a number of cases in a magically-appearing survival bunker and no one finds out??? No one comes from the Public to see what is going on and why the extremely powerful weapons are being broken into by renegades? There is potential here. I'm hoping the next in the apparent series will correct some of the problems.