H J Lawson

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The Nitty-Gritty: As the name suggests, this is a book on time, more specifically, time traveling. It starts off introducing Parker, our protagonist, at age 11. We get one of the most common tools used to set up the present situation, the past dream. Parker dreams of a past moment of anguish to give some family background info without having a prologue that needs to mesh into the first chapter. After he wakes up from the dream, it moves on to the present-day Parker, age 15-17, at high school. He's a nice kid, quite responsible for his age, with his moments of teen-lazy (aka, video-game playing). Parker is a normal boy, going through problems most of us have gone through or at least understand...… (meer)

This is an interesting starting point for what I guess is a trilogy, and it sets that up well, but I thought the first story was not finished. We ended at a strange place with too many questions unanswered. There is also not enough back story, no explanations of how we got to where we are or what made the world change to this form. These are things I expect in the first part of any serial story. I don't have enough to think about to bring me back to the next book.
I was provided with a complimentary copy of this book so I could give an honest review.… (meer)

PURENET is a pretty quick paced and easy to read story. I liked the world and the author did a good job of explaining the characters and their place in the story.

I didn't fully connect to the characters. I liked them fine and Skylier played a strong female role, I just wasn't fully invested. I was highly disturbed by her brother's obsession with her to host his and his wife's baby (which is wrong considering it would really be Skyler and his baby, if I read into that right). There is a bit of a love triangle in PURENET, but it doesn't really get into a romance.

A LOT happens but its really quick and to the point. The ending was decent and unpredictable which was nice. It does end on a bit of a cliffhanger though. Will I read more? Maybe, it was a short book so I think book 2 might be as well and the story does have potential.

* This book was provided free of charge from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.… (meer)