The Collapsing Empire

(Goes for the entire series.)

Do you enjoy reading about super-rich assholes posturing at each other, engaging in dominance displays, threats, murder, and saying one thing but meaning another? If so, this is the book/series for you! (If not, you will probably be bored. There's technically some worldbuilding and characters and whatnot in here, but they're pretty much buried under the scheming and power grabs.)

Great plot, great world, amazing characters, so fun and funny

Jeg har fundet kvaliteten af John Scalzis bøger lidt svingende, men her står han ret stærkt. Vi er godt ude i fremtiden og Wu imperiet sidder hårdt på de 48 planeter i imperiet, takket været kontrollen med de "flow" kanaler der gør man kan bevæge sig hurtigt mellem de forskellige verdener. Men holder det?

Scalzi har opbygge et interessant univers og vi har 2-3 gode hovedpersoner, som vi følger. Bogen står fint alene, men jeg glæder mig alligevel til at komme i gang med toeren.

Not bad, but if you don't count the word "fucking" there's basically no adjectives. Characters can be in a scene with no description of age, height, clothes or anything. It's practically a script. Funny script though.

A great way to start a new year, I found myself enjoying the politics. Some of the profanity did seem a little gratuitous; there's a point where it sort of becomes a little hard to swallow. It doesn't feel like a very friendly universe, although I suppose that's the point. Book 2? yes, I'd love to see where all this goes.