What a disaster this 'trilogy' is. It is one very large book, not three. It is, in my opinion, a 'young adult' work, yet no where is this made clear on its jacket. What happens in the first 'book' is that a strange young boy, with obvious 'powers', appears to be abandoned by his equally strange parents, and falls in with with a gang of mostly young types, who have an adventure to try to reunite him with his parents. All very standard and unexceptional. I gave up at the end of the first 'book'.

Robert Reed is a fantastic writer. Marrow, to my recollection, was nothing as formulaic as this. His short fiction is consistently brilliant and quirky. This however is hack work. ( )