A review by tkahler
The Waking Land by Callie Bates

1.0

The idea behind the book held promise and I was eager to read it, but after the first few chapters it took me weeks to finish the book.
It read like a rough draft. Interesting concepts that needed developed and edited with a harsh hand. The main character's internal monologues vacillated between repetitive, confusing, and annoying. The action jumped from scene to scene with little development or trite and tired litany. Most of the characters were flat.
All in all, I like the author's imagination and I hope in the future she devotes more time to the editing process.