Yes the navigation of the site is not great and there’s a lot of bad language. These are really the only negative points about Zephyr in my opinion and I don’t have a problem with the curse words the way the author uses them. The narrator and hero is a unique, distinctive, colourful, fully-realised character who leaps from the webpage despite any technical difficulties with the site (and who has a problem reading white on black? crazy).

The editor review does a fair turn at summing Zephyr up. "He’s more than a little aware that his personal problems have passed his ability to cope with them, but the path through it isn’t obvious." Well said.

I find the character and the world equally engaging. It’s not just an "almost us" universe. I gather from the various hints and references there are some pretty big differences between Zephyr’s world and ours. For instance I don’t believe there’s a problem with militant Islam in Zephyr’s universe and it is Zionists who are on the march because the state of Israel was never created. As another reviewer said, the Beatles weren’t musicians, they were a supers team. Makes you wonder what impact that would have on the course of popular music? Hopefully the author will cast more light on this in the future.

The writing is clear and articulate and does a fair turn at conveying the hyped-up chaos of the main character’s thoughts sometimes. The writer does a fair turn at capturing a neat stream of consciousness that still manages to be grammatically correct as far as I understand such things. The various funny metaphors and pop culture references lift the material above the above average to something close to exceptional. This should probably be a professional product and it won’t surprise me if we see Zephyr eventually picked up by some comic or film company and turned into a hot property.

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