I ... didn't hate it I guess? Which is more than I can say for the other two Takeshi Kovacs novels. The ending was kind of strong and almost prompted me to give the book three stars, but then I remembered the middle parts that almost made me hurl the ebook into /dev/null and brought it down to two again.
My problem with these novels is still the characterization. Morgan is not a bad writer, but he seems only interested in a very primitive "tough buy - bitch" dynamic, which gets tiresome after five minutes. Even so, Kovacs actually at times showed some human characteristics here, but mainly he was just an asshole to such an incredible degree that I couldn't help but wish the book would end with him having the same fate as the people he casually or viciously kills. In addition, almost everybody in the world seems …
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dare rated Berserker man: 3 stars
Berserker man by Fred Saberhagen
[Berserkers][1]: Relentless, remorseless, pity less, tireless, adaptive, cunning, self replicating, artificially intelligent, genocidal doomsday weapons of a long forgotten interstellar …
dare rated Bird Minds: 3 stars
Matter by Iain M Banks (Culture, #8)
dare rated Trail of Lightning: 3 stars
Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World, #1)
While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo …
dare rated What the hell did I just read: 4 stars
What the hell did I just read by David Wong
Investigating the activities of a shapeshifting entity that is snatching local kids, the friends from This Book Is Full of …
dare rated Central Station: 3 stars
Central Station by Lavie Tidhar
A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide …
dare rated Tiamat's wrath: 4 stars
dare rated Look to windward: 3 stars
Look to windward by Iain M Banks
It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war.
It led to the destruction of two …
dare reviewed Woken furies by Richard K. Morgan
Richard K. Morgan has received widespread praise for his astounding twenty-fifth-century novels featuring Takeshi Kovacs, …
Review of 'Woken furies' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
I ... didn't hate it I guess? Which is more than I can say for the other two Takeshi Kovacs novels. The ending was kind of strong and almost prompted me to give the book three stars, but then I remembered the middle parts that almost made me hurl the ebook into /dev/null and brought it down to two again.
My problem with these novels is still the characterization. Morgan is not a bad writer, but he seems only interested in a very primitive "tough buy - bitch" dynamic, which gets tiresome after five minutes. Even so, Kovacs actually at times showed some human characteristics here, but mainly he was just an asshole to such an incredible degree that I couldn't help but wish the book would end with him having the same fate as the people he casually or viciously kills. In addition, almost everybody in the world seems to subscribe to the same power dynamic.
I don't know. Someone must like this, but reading this I just felt as tired as Kovacs. I want characters that feel something besides anger and bittterness. Meh.
dare rated The Causal Angel: 4 stars
dare rated The Black Tides of Heaven: 3 stars
The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang (Tensorate, #1)
The Black Tides of Heaven is one of a pair of standalone introductions to JY Yang's Tensorate Series. For more …
dare rated The Better Part of Valor: 3 stars
The Better Part of Valor by Tanya Huff (Valor Confederation, #2)
Telling a two-star general what she really thought of him was the mistake Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr made with General …
dare rated The Collapsing Empire: 4 stars
The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi (The Interdependency, #1)
The first novel of a new space-opera sequence set in an all-new universe by the Hugo Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling …
dare reviewed Terms of Enlistment by Marko Kloos (Frontlines, #1)
The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. For …
Review of 'Terms of enlistment' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Just barely squeezing into three stars. A very generic military science-fiction novel that seems to have no soul, nothing interesting to say and a main character with all the depth of a piece of cardboard.
The story feels like your really basic video game / late night improvised RPG scenario where everything is second-hand. There's a lot of detail but it doesn't cohere into a whole.
It's written competently enough, and the last part changes gears completely, ending the book a sequel hook more blatant than seen in ages. And yet, I find myself kind of interested to see what might happen next.
Just barely squeezing into three stars. A very generic military science-fiction novel that seems to have no soul, nothing interesting to say and a main character with all the depth of a piece of cardboard.
The story feels like your really basic video game / late night improvised RPG scenario where everything is second-hand. There's a lot of detail but it doesn't cohere into a whole.
It's written competently enough, and the last part changes gears completely, ending the book a sequel hook more blatant than seen in ages. And yet, I find myself kind of interested to see what might happen next.