The 4400: Welcome to Promise City Book

This book is really only for people who watched the 4-season television show "The 4400" through its season 4/series finale. For those people, this will be a very enjoyable book. The author writes the characters exactly as they were in the series. Their personalities, linguistics and mannerisms are represented very well. The story is good and suspensful. The novel, which is about 280 pages, is about the equivalent to 4-8 episodes of the show. It's a tad hard to calculate that because in the show, each episode would have its own story as well as ongoing plot progress. In the book, most of the story is ongoing throughout. But that's a general comparison. The ending was left wide open for what comes next.



I could easily imagine another 6 books before all this is really concluded, so if the next book (due out in October 09 and called "Broken Promises") really IS (as the author says) the conclusion of the entire series, I sure hope it's much longer and gets straight to the big issue of what the future really wants and which side is doing the right things (if any) to make that happen. (The author of the next book is different from this author, but they consulted each other closely, and also consulted with the show producers).