Xandria: A mega-metropolis on Bhast, humankind's newest home.Calen: A young athlete and son of a top ranking senator.Luka: A mysterious operative with an unorthodox method of investigation.Yoshiro: A rising star in Xandria's exotic underworld.Staciel: An enigmatic figure of political and social deterioration, a catalyst for change.On the eve of an unprecedented political maneuver in Xandria, Calen Liese flees from his home, leaving a murder scene behind and setting into motion a chain of events that could decide the fate of humankind on Bhast, beginning with the planet's Fey population; a group seemingly handicapped by acute empathy and society's uncertain fears, drawn to the destructive and oppressive powers within the planet's largest slum. Are Fey the next evolution of humankind? Or were they created? Darkside is a sociological post-Earth thriller.
It took me a long time to get through this novel. It is very
long, so it was easier to pick up shorter books instead and get through them
quicker.
Something I didn’t like was the amount of different
characters and how they appear. This book could have probably been broken up
into a few books that covered different storylines while integrating the main
characters with the new ones. Instead, it was all thrown together and became a
bit jumbled and confusing.
Many times, new characters will just be introduced by
reading a new name. I didn’t have the slightest clue where some of them came
from or what the points of their storylines were. I either figured it out after
reading further, or I just never new and I forgot about them.
This book likes to jump from event to event with no real
transitional phase. It is easier to get used to as you read more of it, but it
is very confusing in the beginning.
I would say it is like a reading funnel. It starts our very
broad with a lot of different things going on, and as it progresses, it all
stars to come together and fit into one story line.
I felt like this was almost a never-ending book and it
needed to be broken up to make it more interesting. I often found myself
wondering how much longer it would take me to read it. It dragged on for a good
portion of the book and just made it really, really difficult to get through.
The one bright spot in the book is that the characters were
all pretty well developed even if some of them didn’t seem to have that big of
a part in the story.
1/5 stars. I am sure
there will be many readers who will get into this book, but I was not one of
them.
