Geonn Cannon's Reviews > The Trials of Lila Dalton

2.5 rounded up. This is a case of a talented author with a really great premise who doesn't trust it. The basic idea is basically a Quantum Leap story where someone finds themselves in a high-risk situation they're unprepared for. It was very intriguing on the face of it. Unfortunately, in practice, it's just extremely convoluted, confusing for no reason, and desperately reliant on twists for the sake of shocking the audience. It's not a case where you want to reread it to see how the pieces fit together, it's a case where rereading it will just show how forced the twists are. In the end, there were so many reversals and reveals that it felt like the vast majority of the book was pointless.

The author isn't bad. This was very clearly a first novel. Hopefully future novels will get a bit more focused and anchored to a single conceit.