Have you ever had a dream where you were just flying across
the sky, unhindered by anything physical? Well, ok, so maybe I am the only one
who has ever had a dream like that. That’s sort of what I imagine the
characters in Thomas Locke’s newest work Flash
Point experience when they “ascend”. Only they are not even limited by time
and space in their journey.
Flash Point continues
the story from Trial Run which was
published last year but you don’t have to have read that book in order to enjoy
the new one. Enough of the back story is included so that the reader will not
be lost as to why the characters are important in the current volume. But for
those who read the first installment in the series, you’ll recognize several
prominent characters. Brett Riffkind, Charlie Hazard, and Reese Clawson are all
intertwined again in the drama and espionage that unfold in this story. We are
also introduced to some new characters with the lead being Lena Fennan who is
drawn into a series of events that change her world forever.
The pace of the story is fast. The reader is drawn into the
next chapter naturally and most will find it hard to put the book down or to
stop swiping the page of your kindle reader once you meet Lena in her New York
City cubicle. The settings are realistic and as usual well described so that
you can see the action as it is happening. There is intrigue, romance, tension,
danger, sadness, and joy to be found in the reading of Flash Point. It has all the marks of a great science fiction work
but maintains the tether to the real world enough that you start to believe
this thing just might exist in some lab somewhere.
I really enjoyed reading this volume in the series. I hope
there is more to come. I can’t wait to see where the story leads next as the possibilities
are truly endless. What would you do if you had access to any information and I
do mean any from the future or the past or the present? That’s the ethical
question that the characters face in this series. As the series moves forward,
where will they end up. If only we had one of the nets for real we could
already know!
I give this book a five star rating. It’s entertaining,
engaging, and is well written as usual. The characters are realistically
portrayed as are the settings for the action. The technology is probable and
the use is definitely believable if it were real. This series will make a great
movie plot someday.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from
Revell in exchange for my honest review.
About
Thomas Locke
Thomas Locke is an award-winning novelist with total worldwide
sales of seven million copies.
His work has been
published in twenty languages, and critical acclaim includes four Christy
Awards for excellence in fiction and his 2014 induction into the Christy Hall
of Fame.
Thomas divides his time
between Florida and England, where he serves as Writer In Residence at Regent’s
Park College at The University of Oxford. Visit Thomas at http://tlocke.com.
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