Probability Angels Review

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(More customer reviews)I feel fortunate that I am in a position to occasionally read self-published books. Not all of them are worth taking the time to write about; however, this one certainly is. Though it has its weaknesses, Probability Angels has enough going for it to make it worth reading.
The strongest part of the book is the first half, when the reader gets a chance to explore this clever world and learn about its people. Or, rather, its "probability angels"--people who have died after making certain choices, which leave them spirits roaming the earth, "pushing" human beings towards different paths, both good and bad. But in doing so these "angels" experience pain and huge transfers of energy.
It is a real pleasure to learn about the powers of this alternate world and, in particular, to meet its characters. Matthew, the newbie, is in some sense the eyes through which we see this world. Yet it's Epp, the ancient one, and Kyo, the strange one, who are ultimately much more interesting as we slowly learn their history. They are also the driving forces that move the plot forward.
There were a few small problems with the book from the beginning, however. Mainly, a tendency to disguise exposition as dialogue. Still, as I moved through the first half of the book, I thought it might be a real surprise, a genuine triumph. Unfortunately, when the climax of the plot starts to develop in the second half, it doesn't quite live up to the nice groundwork that's been laid.
The second half squanders the ambiguity of the first half by laying out a basic good vs. evil battle between various kinds of spirits. And a lot of the questions that the reader expects to be answered in these pages are left unknowns. In some cases, the characters themselves ask the same questions the reader has and are greeted with another character's "I don't know." I guess it's okay that things are unknown at certain stages for the characters, but the reader--at least this reader--wants a little more fulfillment.
Still, in the end, I have to commend Mr. Devon for coming up with a very clever premise and creating a very interesting world. If I hoped he did a little more with the plot to exploit his premise; well, others may see it differently. But that doesn't change the fact that Probability Angels is a good read.

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Matthew Huntington's problems seem to keep growing. Not only is he seeing things in garbage cans but his mentor doesn't think he's working up to his full potential, his best friend can't offer any solace but drunken confusion and his wife is dying in Central Park. Of course, the fact that Matthew himself died over two decades ago isn't helping things.

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