Scout

The situation was unique, I will grant that, and did a good job of setting up the premise for what I expect to be the foundation for the Exodus Chronicles books, but the conversations seemed forced and the actions too much like magic given the mundane circumstances. The premise for the “why” of certain things happening seemed too pat, and rang a little false. Also, I didn't quite buy the fact that a large amount of time had already passed for the protagonist to complete the task set before him, given his enhanced abilities, and yet he was still seemingly doomed to failure and working on such a very small scale. I will probably attempt book 1 of the series; perhaps the failures noted above were due to trying to set the stage in a very short story instead of a longer tale.