Review: Flashforward

Flashforward by Robert J. Sawyer

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



Great! After enjoying the TV show which ultimately was cancelled, I was ecstatic to see on goodreads that the whole thing was based off of a book.

It reminds me of something I told my coworker a few months ago, "The best part about reading is the show doesn't get cancelled in the middle." Of course, this is also why I try my hardest to say away from ongoing series. I fail.

This novel did not disappoint. It was interesting, clearly the tv show took a different direction, but that's ok. It reminded me a lot of some modern guy written sci-fi books I read and hated last year- except this one was actually good. I don't know how to explain the feel they all have which makes them stand out as similar in my mind... Maybe they way they integrate their idea of the future into the story, and the way the action sequences are made to be filmed. Like they write every book to be translated to a movie, or they already pitched the idea, and it got trashed, but they liked it so much they made it happen with a book (and the way they typically end supports this theory). This one, however, I liked.

I can't imagine what the TV producers thought they were going to do season after season with this. You could really fit it into a 3 to 6 episode mini-series and call it a day. I really with the US did that more. We just cannot let stories go. *sigh*



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