Steven Smith's review of Black and White (The Icarus Project, #1) (original) (raw)

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Black and White (The Icarus Project, #1)
by

Jackie Kessler (Goodreads Author),

Caitlin Kittredge

Steven Smith's review

Mar 24, 2011

really liked it

bookshelves: urban-fantasy

I liked this book but the back and forth four-way was a little dizzying. The story flips from the perspective of one character who is 'good', to another who is considered 'bad', but from each character's point of view they are both doing good in the world but it's easy to see why each one considers the others way to be 'wrong'. Add to this flip/flop between characters that the story flips back to the past of each character as the story progresses. It's not terrible but it is a bit much at times. From Person A to Person B present to show you they are enemies, then from Person A to Person B's pasts to show you they were friends, and slowly as the story progresses in the past tellings as well as the present tellings, you grow to understand why they are now enemies. The reason seems a bit weak at first until the book progresses a tad more and you gain more understanding of other things that had been going on behind the scenes with them.

The sequel, "Shades of Gray", picks up right as Black and White leaves off which was a huge plus for me.

I'd give this book 4 and a half stars if it was possible, but it just wasn't a 'five' for me.

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