Hero! Book

This was a strange book. In the beginning I didn't know what was going on because people talk about past events that have meaning to them but no meaning to me. And then there will be a flashback with no warning, no "Twelve Years Earlier" type of thing, so it took me awhile to get the hang of "Oh, this is a flashback." The structure of the book is NOw, Flashback, Now, Flashback, cont. By the end we understand what the characters were talking about before because we have lived it through the flashbacks.

Another strange thing is that everyone is referred to as a "boy" or "girl", not as "man" or "woman". After awhile we get the picture that everyone stops aging in their youth so everyone looks like they are 18 years old or something like that, when in reality they could be 200 years old.

The hero in this book is not a real hero (sorry a bit of a spoiler), rather he was made into a hero by the guys in charge. They had reasons for that that are really spoilers so I won't go into those. After he "saves the world" and becomes a hero he lives it up, sleeping around with lots of girls in the mansion he got as prize for his heroics. He's living the high life for years when suddenly there's a new crisis, one that looks like there's no way out even for a hero.