Overall, it wasn't bad. The plot was actually original, though I have to say creepy... especially the guy's "master plan" for Logan... *shudder* I've heard that they gave Mr. "Award-Winning-Author" Max Allan Collins their ideas for S3 and he wrote the two follow-up books - Skin Game and After the Dark (Before the Dawn is a prequel) - based on that. I can actually see it: the plot would have made an excellent story arc, carrying out over two or three episodes.
BUT
Factually speaking? I've read better fanfic, honestly.
First off, Mr. Award-Winning-Author is seriously obsessed with Logan's eyes. Okay, seeing as how he goes by "Eyes Only," I can see this. I, myself, am shamelessly obsessed with those eyes.
Then again, I know what color they are. Mr. Award-Winning-Author never figured that out. I'm about halfway through the first chapter of After the Dark and guess what? He's still insisting that Logan's eyes are blue. Only now, instead of just being blue, they're "wide," "haunting," and "bright" blue, despite the fact that they are now, and always have been, green.
Oh, and his hair's gone from brown to brownish blond to dark blond to blond...
Seriously, I thought only fanfic writers did this hair color change stuff.
Oh, and he says in the beginning to the second book (and he mentioned in the first, which took place so soon after Freak Nation that the second chapter actually was a novelization of the last act), the Logan can only walk because of the exoskeleton.
Wrong, wrong, wrong!
As of Freak Nation, Logan could walk perfectly fine without the exoskeleton, the result of his blood transfusion from Joshua in Hello, Goodbye. The fact that he could walk on his own (stem cells regenerating his spinal cord) was why he could jump in front of White's shooters in the warehouse and why he could fight the Familiar tac squad almost as well as the Transgenics did (provided he was in a position to kick them, that is).
The exoskeleton, which for more than a year did nothing other than allow Logan to walk (and occasionally short out and embarrass him) was suddenly giving him the same leg strength that Phil had in I and I Am a Camera - this was only possible because of the blood transfusion from Joshua. Now, since the stem cells were obviously still active in Freak Nation (and showed no signs of rejection at that point), should we be able to assume that they were still active over the course of the next few days? I'd say that's a big yes.
The point of this whole little rant? Mr. Award-Winning-Author is talking out his ass when he says that Logan can only walk because of the exoskeleton. Logan can walk because his body hasn't rejected the stem cells he got from Joshua yet - Logan can jump really high, run really fast, and kick serious ass (literally) because of the exoskeleton.
How the hell did this make it past an editor? Didn't anyone who watched this show read these damn things before they went to print?