Whoa!!!  Looking through my amazon page and I find that The Great Robert Adkisson has given Echo Volume 2 its seventh consecutive 5-star!!!  It means a lot coming from this guy, as he is also an author and not one to hand those out (I learned this to my chagrin when he gave Echo 1 four stars, haha!) and he is honest, courteous and helpful when he analyzes writing.  Here’s his site, if you haven’t seen it:  Creatica Bardling, and now it’s back to work!  If you’re a writer, I wish you inspired drafting and insightful editing!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂

Here’s the review:  “Moments ago I finished reading Kent Wayne’s Echo 2 and as I sit here, I marvel at the thrilling adventure that I’ve just been on. For a few minutes I was unable to have any thoughts at all – I could just be.

Regarding the content of the book, it has improved drastically over Echo 1. He still brings a ton of character development, but it is solid with plot (even if the plot takes place over the course of a single day). At first I was hoping for more of a storyline rather than an over-extended event, but soon I realized that it was my own perception that wasn’t seeing the plot.

Kent’s technical skills have greatly improved in this volume as well. There are still short sentence fragments, but they are more evenly dispersed and feel more natural than they did in Echo 1. There is still a lot of swearing, but two things happened. 1) The situations felt like the swearing was more natural, and 2) By the constant repetition I may have become more desensitized to it. There were still places that it seemed a bit overbearing and much. Some places where it felt forced. But in the grand scheme of things, the swearing didn’t take away from my reading of the book.

Two other things I simply have to mention. It’s not often that a book does either of these to me but once I got sucked into Echo 2, I actually had a dream that I was there. Different storyline, but within the Echo universe. As a wild guess, I think the two other main characters in my dream were Atriya and Verus, but I can’t be sure. The other thing I wanted to mention was that one day at work I felt like EVERYONE was gunning for me. I could have just sulked and screwed around but I found myself thinking “What would Atriya do in this situation?” And so I did my best for these people who were painting my back with a bright red target. What in the world?! Atriya helped me to be a better person. Atriya, man. Atriya.”