First book Read! (The Chimera Sequence by Elliott Garber)

Well I didn't think i'd finish a book so quickly with two little kids underfoot but turns out once you get really into a good book it can still be done. Of course being on winter break from school helps too. It felt so nice to be curled up with a good book (and a baby), I didn't realize quite how much I missed the delight of getting lost in a different world for a couple of hours.

I decided to start with The Chimera Sequnce by Elliott Garber and here's what I thought:

This is not the usual genre of book that I read, i'm more of a fantasy person but I had read the short story No Dog Left Behind that features the same main character so I was intrigued and I was definitely not left disappointed.

I was a little confused after the first chapter because I didn't really understand what was going on, but it was intriguing, so I continued on. Then after that second chapter I was hooked and couldn't put it down. I loved all the characters, and was disappointed on occasion when it would switch to a new point of view because I wanted to keep learning more about the previous character's predicament. But I knew that to keep the plot moving the book had to keep switching so you could find out more and how all the pieces fit together.

If I could I would give this book 4.5 stars, but since places like Goodreads and Amazon don't allow half ratings i'll stick with 4 stars. I would read more books about Cole McBride in the future, I think it's really different to have a veterinarian as the main character of a book, and this one was extremely well written.