The Tomorrow Code Book

"The Tomorrow Code" is, overall, an okay book. The sciences behind the entire plot are intriguing. Sadly, everything plummets from there.

The writing itself is merely decent. The narrative is no award-winning masterpiece; it's quite simple and two-demensional. It improved between the dull beginning and action end, but I was unimpressed.

The plot started off stagnant, emotionless, and-let's face it-boring. I was halfway through the book before I was truly interested. The beginning had a weird effect of dragging miserable while seemingly rushing through everything (my only guess is that the wrong parts were detailed, and the right ones only mentioned). The end saved it, along with the immunology and time messaging.

The characters I grew to hate more than love. Each character had their own likable factors, but the characterization seemed inconsistent through the entire novel, and I was alienated from sympathizing with them. Perhaps the most consistent character was the one we meet only once, and who died in the middle of the book.

The moral behind the series got incredibly cliche and corny unnaturally fast. I laughed when I should have been fervently agreeing. I was not convinced.

Also, there was an alliteration near the beginning that I positively hated. Don't try so hard, Mr. Falkner.

That being said, the death scenes were appealing in the way they were presented, the science was though-provoking, and the ending one of my favorites, but if you read it, do so for the science rather than literary genius.