Dan
At least the cover is great...
The ending of the book I awesome but the 400 pages before are a slog with nothing much happening.
Brando Sando can do no wrong. This is just a fun read. Yeah technically it should not be 5 stars but I enjoyed it like a 5 star book.
3/5 stars
Meh
It's the best of the era 2 books and there is a lot of cosmere stuff going on but ultimately it did not satisfy my mistborn itch.
Lots of stretches are just plain boring, maybe thats because no character really clicked with me.
First half is great, second half is so so, feels rushed and without any satisfying conclusion at all.
What a mixed bag. Does not live up to the hype but I can see why pople like it.
it's over the top, pedal to the metal fantasy turned up to 11. I don't think the way of story telling the author employed here is for me though. It feels so random at times.
Boring AF, nothing really happening. This is another of those wannabe highbrow books in the vain of ‘A Memory Called Empire'. Lot's of dialogue where the author tries to load it with layers and subtext, unfortunately this is so far fetched that the protagonist explains the hidden meaning of the dialogues afterwards because no one would get that.
There is a very interesting world, an interesting enemy, interesting politics, space travel etc. etc but it does not really get explored. Instead we get treated to mundane problems of a, granted, interesting protagonist. I wished this was more scifi and less drama.
DNF the series. :(
4/5 stars
This is a nice mix of Star Trek, Star Wars, Indianer Jones and a tad of Fantasy.
I really enjoyed it for 2/3 of the book, the later third was a bit of a drag but still on the good side. It could have used some trimming, I would guess it's 200 pages too long, for example there is a super pointless romance arc out of nowhere and a super super cringy sex scene and drawn out action/fight scenes, which are not the strength of the book.
Anyhow, good story, great world, looking forward to reading more from the Fractalverse
2.5/5 stars.
Meh.
This was more of a murder mystery with fantastical elements than a fantasy Novell.
Unluckily for me, I don't like murder mysteries.
Typical Tchaikovsky. Great beginning, great end, lots of meandering boring pages in the middle.
I adore the man for his great, unique, mind boggling ideas but I can not get onboard with the execution. The author can't write dialogue for the life of him and relies on repetitive, sloggy inner monologue and info dumps. It's just not for me.
This is a fantastic book, it‘s amazing what the author could pack in in so few pages. A cool story, great characters and a good message that makes you think and dream. He even stuck the landing
Would have dnf-ed it if I was not playing a D&D Campaign set in Icewind Dale currently.
That was the most boring and pointless book I have read in a very long time.
Should have dnf-ed it.
Well, that was basically twilight with Neanderthals. It has nothing much to do with science fiction, only with a boring, simplistic love story. yawn. what a disappointment. At least it was written very well, as far as I can tell as a non native speaker.
Mild spoilers ahead.
Easy interesting read, with some really good parts in it. The “love story” is totally unneeded, plain, uninteresting and just feels totally out of place, so is the Trial story in the parallel world. It does a good job of explaining their world a bit and delay the return of Ponter but other than that i was glad when the trial parts ended and we got back to the interesting Ponter storyline.
Overall i would recommend it to people who like alternate history and/or world exploring.
Amazing ending, unfortunately a bit of a slog in the middle. The weakest of the for stormlight books so far, still an amazing read though
Soap Opera with sci-fi elements. Totally boring till about 80% of the book. No comparison to the first book.
If you are searching for a Science Fiction book, this is not for you.
This is a story about a strong protagonist with questionable morals, an outsider making her way in a hostile world against all odds. You get religious themes, social commentary, philosophical ideas and, in great parts, a gripping story, but what you do not get is science fiction.
No explanation about how anything works hardly any information about the world and why it is how it is, let alone the parallel worlds, close to zero world building.
We get pages and pages exploring Cara and her feelings, former lovers, current crush, domestic violence, hopes and fears while the science fiction elements are glossed over in a paragraph or two and later happen totally ‘off screen'.
That being said, I could not put the book away and read through it within a few days. I like the style of the author, it never gets boring and has enough interesting ideas to keep you hooked and makes you think but overall I was looking for a sci-fi book, not some human drama. But that's on me.
2.5/5 stars.
