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Proxy The Infected Book 1 eBook PS Power

For some reason, I felt like this book was a 1000 pages long. It wasn't that the author didn't keep you engaged ... it's just that most of the scenes are on repeat. You'll understand once you read the book... if you decide to buy it.

This is not an X-Men read .... although the similarity in super-hero-ness from genetic mutations is similar. That is where the similarities end. I enjoyed the story, but felt a little bogged down by the author's word choice and sentence structure (sometimes I had to read a sentence twice to understand what the author was trying to say). In some instances, you feel like maybe you missed a sentence (or paragraph) because the author fails to properly describe a sequence of events. It was a little wearing on the mind sometimes. And... there are at least 14 people that are constantly identified and each person has two names (the one they were born with and their alias) ... so sometimes I found myself saying, "Now ... who is this again? I forget!" Perhaps I wasn't paying much attention, but I suspect that the author's word games (is "drug" the past tense of "drag"...really?) had a little to do with my confusion. Would I recommend this book? Yes, but take it to the park on a sunny day and read it ... the book is on full repeat so you won't get mad when you lose your attention in the wonders of nature and forget the entire point of a chapter (you've already read a scene somewhere else).


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Proxy The Infected Book 1 eBook PS Power Reviews

"Proxy" is the first novel in P.S. Power's "Infected" series. Set in a vaguely dystopian near-future, the series' narrative arc plots the adventures and misadventures of people who have become "Infected" and thereby acquired super powers. Each of the novels in the series focuses on the struggles of a particular character as he or she deals with the challenges and fallout of their gift.These powers are a dubious gift at best. Unlike comic book super-heroes, all of the Infecteds are broken in some fashion. Indeed, some of the Infected are so broken that they are insane--and insanely violent, for not only does each possess a different super power, but they all suffer from an exaggeration of one aspect of their personality, called their "first mode." Thus a self-policing force has grown up, called the Infected Protection Bureau or IPB. The IPB is charged with protecting the larger population from the insane and homicidal Infecteds.

While each of the novels is named for one of the Infecteds and develops that particular character, all of the novels additionally give a multi-faceted narrative of the struggles of Brian Yi to come to terms with his terrible power while dealing with his "First Mode"--an overwhelming sense of self-sacrifice.

Brian is the central character of "Proxy." A brilliant chubby early-twenty-something Chinese nerd, he gave up working toward a Ph.D. in mathematics to "stack boxes" in a warehouse when not playing video games.

Yi discovers he is infected when he finds himself abruptly transported to the middle of a fight, taking the place of a woman who was being tortured by two psychopaths who planned to then rape and murder her. It is a rip-roaring beginning to the novel, and the action is unremitting for the first half of the book.

Indeed, the narrative of the first half of "Proxy" is a tour-de-force that reminded me of a graphic novel or, perhaps, a manga--just without the artwork. Over-the-top violent, it sets the stage for the external conflicts Brian suffers while establishing the motivation for his subsequent behavior and the inner conflicts that spur the inherent nobility of his character.

I cannot overly stress how fine P.S. Power's narrative skills are. Alas! If only the author respected them as much as I do, for the craftsmanship of this book is marred by grammatical and typographical errors--and the other novels in the series are even worse. The author clearly is in the business of churning out pot-boilers--on the website of the publisher, he boasts of writing a novel a month. Perhaps in the future, the author might want to write a novel every two months, instead, and use the extra time to correct the manifold errors that are currently slipping through.

If you can tolerate these problems, you'll find this an exciting series. 3.5 stars for Proxy, clearly the best of the bunch. 3 stars for the series.
How much did I like this story? I wasn't even halfway done reading it when I went and purchased the (so far) five sequels. So, yeah, PROXY is the first in P.S. Power's tales of the Infected, a series that's X-Men-y in its angst and wildly intense in its action beats. I'm trying hard not to spoiler things too much when, omigosh, all I want to do is rave about the thing. Part of the big fun is that I had no idea where the narrative would take me. No one should take that away from you, dear reader.

No one knows the source of it but, in this book's reality, this strange infection can strike at any person, endowing them with some superhuman knack. Not all superpowers are beneficial. When 22-year-old factory stacker Brian Yi becomes infected, he gains the ability to abruptly trade places with random people who are moments away from being killed. Consider that Brian is this timid, overweight underachiever and has absolutely no control over this ability, and you figure that the odds are very much stacked against his long-term survival.

P.S. Power constructs a riveting mythology, building on superhero tropes and extrapolating from there. This isn't groundbreaking stuff because other postmodern works have already explored real world consequences with superheroes factored in. The character beats are what really sold me. Brian Yi is one special cat, and I challenge you to not root for the guy. There are many other characters I relished as well (invisible Penny, temporal master/master chef Mark, excitable 14-year-old Bridget, etc.).

One thing I should mention is that all infected are driven by a primary emotional mode, some trait that determines that person's conduct and personality. Brian's overriding emotional push is self-sacrifice. He's tortured and spurred on by his concern that should the person he'd replaced come back to a still existing threat, they probably won't survive. So Brian Yi may be the most not-ever-quittingest character I've ever read. Also, he plays the oboe. Oboes are cool.

Hopefully, I've drummed up interest in you and you skedaddle to your local or online book store or your device. So, it's a story that grips you and may keep you past your bed time. I absolutely loved it, didn't even mind the papercuts I developed from flippin' the flippin' pages so hurriedly. There's one glaring flaw that coursed thru the narrative. I ain't no judgy grammarian or that harsh of a stickler for proper punctuation, but, man, whoever edited this thing sucks more than the gravitational pull of a black hole. It's why I'm rating this book 4 stars, instead of the full 5. Someone needs to brush up on the proper application of "to" versus "too," "who's" versus "whose," "incidence" instead of "incident." And the comma, it is your friend. For me, PROXY was absorbing enough that I was ultimately able to never mind the poor grammar. But, man, would it cost so much to go back and re-edit the thing?
For some reason, I felt like this book was a 1000 pages long. It wasn't that the author didn't keep you engaged ... it's just that most of the scenes are on repeat. You'll understand once you read the book... if you decide to buy it.

This is not an X-Men read .... although the similarity in super-hero-ness from genetic mutations is similar. That is where the similarities end. I enjoyed the story, but felt a little bogged down by the author's word choice and sentence structure (sometimes I had to read a sentence twice to understand what the author was trying to say). In some instances, you feel like maybe you missed a sentence (or paragraph) because the author fails to properly describe a sequence of events. It was a little wearing on the mind sometimes. And... there are at least 14 people that are constantly identified and each person has two names (the one they were born with and their alias) ... so sometimes I found myself saying, "Now ... who is this again? I forget!" Perhaps I wasn't paying much attention, but I suspect that the author's word games (is "drug" the past tense of "drag"...really?) had a little to do with my confusion. Would I recommend this book? Yes, but take it to the park on a sunny day and read it ... the book is on full repeat so you won't get mad when you lose your attention in the wonders of nature and forget the entire point of a chapter (you've already read a scene somewhere else).