What you’ll love

Opening scene: Forever’s opening scene is impressive in that it
gives provides action, and gives scant details, while at the same time
prompting the reading to turn the page to find out what happens next.

Potential: There’s a very good story hiding somewhere, it’s just
not in this issue. I loved the concept, and the teaser for the book. The
book itself just falls short, almost as if it had been rushed.

What you won’t

Seen it before: When reading forever you get the feeling that
you’d seen all of this before, There’s the evil pharmaceutical company
and the corrupt doctors.

Art: Just didn’t do it for me, poor acting and facial expressions. I didn’t much care for the style either, it was very grainy.

Resonance: Nothing in this story made me care about the
characters. There’s as plot, but it feels rushed as does the character
intros. There’s too much going on, there’s a medical company that
promises the “fountain of youth” there’s four friends that all grew up
in the same orphanage, when there’s this much going on, there’s really
nothing going on.  In the end you don’t care about these characters.

Pacing:  The story is extremely herky-jerky, it starts out in
media res,(which is good) then we get to see the main character’s status
quo, which is inevitably slow. Then the story speeds up again when we
get closer to the plot point. There’s just too much going on, its hard
to follow and is disconcerting as a reader.

Bottom Line: Forever is a intriguing concept that fails to deliver on it’s promise.

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