Status Updates From Thomas Riley

Probably won't finish this book. It just never caught my attention and I no longer feel the need to finish books that aren't interesting.

This book was so badly crippled by inarticulate prose and a lack of editing that I was barely able to finish it. The story was passable for an action novel geared at the Y.A. market. Nick Valentino seems like a very nice guy, so I hate to give such a poor review, but I have to be honest. Hopefully his next book will actually be edited.

I got this book over a year ago, and I'm not one who usually holds onto books that long. But I kept putting it off - partially because I'd been burned, I think, by both steampunk books and indie type books, and was hesitant to jump in. But I started it this morning and while it's still early days yet, I'm hopeful that it'll be entertaining and, at the very least, not dreck.

oh no! wheres cynthia! will they save her!? what will happen to her? will they save her? will she die? read to find out.

oh my gosh! they fought another ship. when does the guy they captured come? how do they get to west carnivia? what will the pirates do with them?