This book should really be divided into two separate books. The first half took me a majority of the story to really figure out how everything made sense and then it stops with no resolution. The story starts back up 20 years or more later and the original main character finally returns to the story. While the story is original, it is a colony of people on a new planet with limited technology and the villages have regressed to a midevil society who do not remember coming to this planet or what technology even is, it takes forever to piece all of the puzzle pieces together to figure this out. Once the first half of the story is finished, you realize the planet is revolting against the people for no apparent reason and the "animals" and plants are killing everything. ( )

I thank the author for providing me a review copy.
I wanted to like this book. It sounded so promising, yet it really fell flat for me.
This book has a lot going for it, yet it somehow doesn't deliver on any real front, possibly because it tries to do so on too many of them.

The story starts out rather straightforward, with our protagonist being betrayed by his traditional village family. Then we are introduced to a very sci-fi element that never really meshes with the existing story line and then the direction seemingly changes ever few pages into a new and unexpected way with none of the story strands being properly wrapped up.

I thought the writing style to be rather hard to get into as well, although it got better roughly a third through, yet that is where the story really starts to loose its focus.

This story tries to combine so many things into one book, including a very odd Japanese influence that is never really explained, and remains oddly superficial.

In short, this book tried to do too many things well, and by doing so failed to deliver on any of them. ( )

OH MY GOSH! This book wow! Just Wow! I loved this book so much! This author is truly talented an knows how to write. This book was definitely different. It was nice to read something so new and refreshing. This story was so vastly interesting. A true page turner! I'm glad i was able to receive an ecopy of this in exchange for my honest review! ( )