Strong start, flags a little in second half

On the whole I found this book to be an entertaining one, but it felt like it started out a fair bit stronger than it finished, the question of whether a person who no longer exists due to problems caused by time travel has more right to live than those who now exist because of the changes is an interesting one that the main character probably got over a bit too quickly before he joined forces with the person that caused the problems in the first place.

The range of powers of the heroes and villains in this book were varied, mostly avoiding the usual mainstays of the comic book world or when using them doing so in a slightly different manner. However, the times when the focus shifted to a confrontation between the characters, the writing didn't quite manage to capture the visual nature inherent in an action scene so they didn't hold the attention as well as they might have done. The pacing of the book felt a little uneven too, building to a peak about half to two thirds of the way through before descending from there even with the main confrontation being later on in the book.

The narration was similarly a little mixed, the tone and style for each character was distinctive enough and helped to enhance the more character-focused parts of the book, but the pacing of the narration felt a little too slow in the action scenes where it felt like the focus was more on trying to convey the weightiness of a scene rather than the pace of it.

Overall, despite my slight criticisms, this was a book that I definitely enjoyed listening to, finishing it in only a few sittings and I will definitely look out for more from this author in the future.

[Note - I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.]

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Couldn't tell who the good guys were

I did enjoy this book but found I enjoyed the first half of the book more than the second, it seemed to fade and a lot more of the time was spent explaining theories than the action scenes you expect with a super hero book. Kudos to the author for trying to give the story deep (and a twist) but In my opinion it didn't work and I would have preferred my action. Also with super heros like to be able to tell the differences between the good guys and the bad guys (give or take a few side swapping). I have mixed feeling about the characters and I did like them to begin with but by the end of the book I felt In different and didn't really care what happened to them. Don't get me wrong I did like the book and I like the way the super power came about and the unusual powers but it might be a while before I give book two ago, especially as book two focuses on the bad guys more but I will give it ago just to see what the author has in store for them.
What happens when no body knows you exist? Richard Rogers went to bed one night with a job, a wife and a life only to wake up the next morning In someone else's house, with no way of communicating and not even his parents having any knowledge of his existence. The only man who can see him, along with his two daughters, is the man that created the mess he finds himself in. So what do you do if no one can see you? Spy on women in locker rooms? Pretend to be a ghost? Travel around with the president? Sleep in the white house or the playboy mansion? Or do you join a super hero team and fight the monsters and evil villains that you have only seen on tv and always believed was made up using special effects? Of course doing that is never easy because not everything is black and white.
The narrator was very dramatic and was just right for a super hero book.
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well worth it

would have liked it to be longer, but if had all the elements of a great story.

p.s. i recieved a free copy at my request and have left this review of my own volition.

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Unexpected direction

A guy gets turned into an invisible, intangible being by a scientist who then offers to help him fight crime. This scientist is a super genius with two super hero daughters. However everything is not as it seems; the family is dysfunctional and the scientist might not be the good guy.....

Along the way the book takes some dark and unexpected turns.

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