Reviews and Comments

(Oh look, I finally found a way to post my score AND review while posting. I'm not stupid no.)

So the main plot is kind of my jam, which made me ultimattely give this book three stars. Interstellar diplomacy with subspecies of humanity actually felt kind of sci-fi, and once I realised that Earth is basically a stupid banana republic of little consequence the story started making more sense. But oh how I disliked the narrator protagonist, the whiny diplomat with the emotional maturity of a 16-year old, and everything related to his relationship stupidities. He was so unbelievably annoying that I probably will not check out any other books, even though I'd kind of like to see where the big story goes.

Soon I Will Be Invincible is one of my favourite superhero books. Sadly, Fight Me is not as good. I did love the characters and the writing is competent, but ... there was no ending, no real resolution to anything. It almost dragged this down to three stars, and I cannot really blame anyone who tosses the book at a wall in disgust.

Still, while reading, I enjoyed this immensely, just couldn't put it down. I just wish etc.

I found myself liking this not at all. The stories blended into one another, felt formulaic and pointless. Lovecraftian doom, purple prose, insinuations of great revelations which never come ... Barron hadn't yet found himself, I think. But being a completionist, of course I had to read it as well.

Definitely a product of its time -- a bunch of short stories, where the protagonists are physics and general left-brain approach to problems. The writing is bare-bones, the characters are paper-thin, the politics are facepalmingly dated. My three stars are because I like physics in my sci-fi, but it's more like 2.5 stars really.

Picking up the first Isaiah Coleridge book, I could never have guessed stuff would escalate to this. But it's all good. Think I'm becoming a Laird Barron fan.