More and more, the story leads you to wonder, to doubt yourself, to doubt the author even. The MC Ace starts to act absurdly and in utterly unpredictable ways. Eventually, the story gets darker and more mysterious. He fights, he snipes, he hides in the shadow. ‘Flights of Icarus’ starts out as a tale chronicling the development of a master assassin. This is a story about assassinations, deception and the darkness in our hearts. How cool would it be to become an assassin, killing anyone you want, hiding your identity and living a double life? But what horrors must one have gone through to lead this 2-faced life? ‘Flights of Icarus’ tells that story, and throws in buckets of fun doing it too. could they really have been reading the same story? I am left wondering about those enthusiastic reviews.

Some elements of the plot were interesting, but the direction in which the protagonist developed his character was psychopathic in a childishly egotistical and therefore uninteresting way. I very soon lost all interest in his fate. The obstacle here is that the main character is a dickhead. Problems with expressing oneself in a foreign language can always be overlooked if the story itself is good.

The best advice I can give the author is to run, don't walk, to the nearest used book store and buy Williams's Towards Clarity and Grace, the best guide to writing I know. More generally, the author's clumsiness of expression causes constant aesthetic pain: 'The old assassin made himself some tea and looked at the clinging door'. 'What's going on with me lately? Twice tonight had I thrash talked about different classes and to people who wanted to teach me non the less. I cannot believe that the author is a native English speaker: 'Ace lied down on the rags and studied the ceiling. So I persevered for a few chapters, until eventually the imbalance between effort and reward became too much. Still, Aunt Maud always used to say one shouldn't jump to conclusions because they would trundle up to you of their own accord. By the end of the first paragraph, I wondered what those reviewers had been smoking. Several laudatory reviews led me to begin reading Flight of Icarus.

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