- Title:
- A Question of Will (The Aliomenti Saga, #1)
- By:
- Alex Albrinck
- Pages:
- 288
- Rating:
- 3
They murdered his wife and son. They burned down his house. They beat him within an inch of his life.
And then they realized they had the wrong man.
They should have killed him when they had the chance.
Will Stark is a thirty-five-year-old self-made billionaire. He’s happily married and father to a young son he adores. He’s well-loved in his community for his philanthropic efforts. He lives in a beautiful home inside a private, secure community designed to provide safety for his family from those who would do them harm.
His idyllic world is shattered when, despite his best efforts, men storm his community, murder his family in their home, and burn his house down. In his efforts to rush to the aid of those he loves, Will is seized, beaten, and nearly killed.
And as it’s happening, the men who’ve attacked him realize they’ve mistaken him for someone else.
Will’s rescue from certain death brings him into the midst of a battle between two factions of a secret society, one in which members learn the secrets of developing superhuman abilities. And it’s a battle in which a man named Will Stark has been the focal point. Will seizes the opportunity to learn these secrets, and battle those who destroyed his family. His own rapid development, however, means he may become a target for attack of his own accord.
As he builds his new life, however, Will is faced with a critical decision. Will he use his new abilities to seek out vengeance? Or will he risk everything he has to save those he holds most dear?
I felt this was a little to expansive for its own good; it tried to do too much: almost parapsychic powers, time travel, assassins, paradoxes – it contrived a little to many things into a small page count, and almost seemed to be part of a world that could’ve done with some more definition in other worrks.