I was born blind, so books became my movies. Fantasy and Science fiction, thrillers and spies, and the occasional goodfeel novel or fanfiction from my youth round out my reading record. I don't do nonfiction: I read enough technical stuff at work!
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There can't be much ofHarrison left that I haven't read now. I quite liked this, it has a great doomness about it, that pivotal knife-edge pull of US and Soviet cooperation which rarely works too well in practice but always comes across as very exciting in novels. The British pubgoer was a lovely bit of divergence too.
I finished this over a week ago and am still coming up with thoughts about it. Obviously, Ready Player One and its ilk came along and smashed the genre open. It was still totally engaging from the very beginning,the synopsis absolutely had me hooked and the story itself didn't disappoint.
It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
Short but sweet, I positively luxuriated in every sentence. Becky’s writing is so compellingly beautiful, somehow real yet fantastic at the same time, with a seemingly endless ability to latch on to ones Humanity and tug it in unexpected and thought-provoking directions. For all that I’m really going to miss the wayfarers, this peek into a new world with so much history, kindness and love was positively enthralling.
Not quite up there with Machine Man and Lexicon but I enjoyed it well enough.
Fast-paced and rather crazy, I enjoyed it, even if it was insanely speedy. Not the style of writing I'd perhaps go for all the time, but entertaining and an excellent sendup of the advertising industry.
I quite enjoyed the period detail, although as a novel, the ending didn't really do much for me.
From the synopsis, I was hoping for something more. I liked Svetas broken idioms, although the KGB mindset was a bit of a silly stereotype.
I know there's more to come, so it's unfair to judge the completed story yet, but I was just hoping for a bit more in terms of either action or explanation, neither of which, when it happened, felt explicable or definitive.
Not a new story by any means, but the voracious enemy and clever all-or-nothing attempts at solutions made for compelling reading nonetheless.
I enjoyed the guidebook, and each segment was really very good by itself. Much of the humour was funny, and most of the people had things that worked. The patterns sadly were underfinished, and the gestalt didn't seem to quite come together for anything like a five star finale. glad I read, but more story would have almost certainly made me happier.
Well, time travel is either mindbending, or it isn't. here the story was good, but the "be seeing you!" all the time grated and the flow was a little ... off. There was no paradox, no real sense of anything other than a middle-of-the-road thriller, and the ending was almost too saccharine. Perhaps further books will give a wider picture, so I can't say I'd not look, but I was entertained rather than impressed this time around.
Brilliantly unputdownable, Nick's journey captivated me from the off. His arc was perfectly handled, the arctic landscape and creatures both terrestrial and otherwise amazingly vivid and the supporting cast well fleshed out and believable. One of the pest Cawdron's yet, well worth the price.
So yes, I’ve had quite a few of this type of thing lately. But this one really captured me. The sheer number of viewpoint hops in the early stages was great. The build was detailed, the whole idea a neat twist I’d not seen before and the final battle felt like the proper end of something. And then we get the epilogue, which is perfect because we know there’s more in the saga. Totally start to finish I did not want to put the book down. Brilliant.
Sadly nothing special, the rather dire hops from space, to some sort of odd space station to the real world were all rather jarring, and we seem to be in some sort of strange universe combining criogenics, VR and some form of clan politics. I'm not sure I'll go for book 2 unless I'm desperate.
What do you have when you blend a pinch of litrpg, a touch of farming …
I've never read a Litrpg book with a satisfying, closed-off ending. yet I never seem to learn, either, because I enjoyed this. Can't quite describe why; it wasn't anything uber special but the mechanics were interesting and the plot held my interest. And despite knowing I'll never really enjoy the end of a series like this I'd read the next one if I had it right now.
I really enjoyed this as a rather magical, family story. The ending was a little disappointing in retrospect, but the imagery and emotion all the way through was fascinating.
