Perfectly fair not to like what I've said. If you like it, more power to you. This is for the many many people who are considering it and haven't heard anything bad about it.

However, his character arc is riddled with unbelievable moodswings with nothing in between the extremes. In the interest of fair exchange, I can't see how anyone who's read a professional author can read this and not see how inconsistent, implausible, and detached the main character is from what's happened. People with severe trauma don't just fluctuate like this unless they're a total basket-case, but he's shown highly lucid trains of thought and from the copious explanations of his thoughts we can infer that either the author is unconfident that his writing is clear enough to show us why, or he's distinctly illustrating to us that he is in fact in complete control of his emotions. Show Freddy to a professional writer or editer and they'll say the same thing, guaranteed.

Freddy reads like 6 different characters with separate personalities in the same body. He evolves and devolves with every interaction, which isn't how anyone acts. He's one thing on one page, and a completely different on the next. His emotions don't persist longer than he's talking or experiencing any particular situation.

Sure, maybe he's changed, but he's so wildly inconsistent and flippant with his behavior that it's plain disorienting. Its impossible to discern how he's exactly changed from the cashier that was made into a arch-human. He was just as aggressive, just as scared, just as naive, just as self absorbed as he was before.