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 This is my first experience with a David Baldacci novel and unlike most older readers who will pick up The Finisher, I was truly a tabula rasa. My knowledge of what this book was about was limited and all I knew was that there's a major Sony movie deal, it's written by an acclaimed author, and that it's some some sort of fantasy. I think knowing as little as I did worked in my favor because I didn't come in with high expectations. 
 The Finisher is a fantasy-paranormal hybrid with tons of world-building and so expect a ton of info-dumping scattered throughout the book. The answers readers are seeking are few and far between in The Finisher, but when readers do receive any sort of information, it just leads to more questions. The obscene amount of info-dumping was a bit problematic and I wish Baldacci had spread it more evenly, instead of just clumping it together. It's fine to have a bit of a mysterious aura and to keep the readers in the dark, but if after hundreds of pages, readers only have more questions, it's extremely disconcerting. 
 Despite the unhealthy amount of info-dumping and boundless questions I had, I really enjoyed The Finisher. The beginning of The Finisher was a bit too dry, but once I passed the first 100 pages or so, I started to really like Vega Jane and started to enjoy the story. I'm confident that readers who can brave the problematic beginning will enjoy the rest of the novel. It's easy to see why so many readers have fallen in love with David Baldacci's novels because his ability to string readers along and have them turn page after page is impressive. 
 David Baldacci is a superb writer, but the vernacular in The Finisher is extremely unimpressive and unimaginative. To make it seem like a strange world, Baldacci has created a language for the Wugs and it's a bit too ordinary. The constant repetition of words like Wugs and Hel is extremely irritating and at a certain point, I was getting fed up with the vernacular. The vernacular of the Wugs wasn't extremely effective and I feel like James Dashner's The Maze Runner created a language that was better fleshed out. 
 The plot of The Finisher is a bit difficult to describe because The Finisher is a bit too long for it's own good. The Finisher clocks in at over 510 pages and for a story of this magnitude, it's too big of a stretch. Baldacci's world is finely crafted and his characters are wonderfully developed, but there were too many lulls in the plot where nothing happened for large stretches of time. As much as I enjoyed The Finisher, a decent portion of this novel could have been edited better or better yet, Baldacci could have given readers at least some answers. 
 I definitely think that Vega Jane is one of the best heroines I've read about in so long. There isn't nearly enough strong female characters that kids can look up to in literature and Baldacci is trying to fix that with Vega Jane. Vega is such a fierce, strong-willed character that readers will admire for her endless determination and fiery personality. Her dedication to finding out what's really going on in Wormwood is incredible and readers will form a irreversible bond with her. Readers will root for Vega Jane and yearn for her to succeed, Jane is the epitome of what a main character should be. The other characters in The Finisher are just as finely written, but I'm going to pass on discussing them in an effort to avoid spoilers. 
 The pacing of The Finisher and the lack of questions may turn off some readers, but others will be enchanted by the extremely in-depth world-building and characterization that The Finisher has an abundance of. The Finisher isn't the strongest opening to a series, but it does promise a ton of thrills in the upcoming installments. I'm really looking forward to the next book in The Finisher series and I really hope that some of the issues I had with this book will be circumvented by Baldacci.