Dan

That was great. A somewhat short, popcorn-movie like, fast paced sci-fi story.
Second book I read from A.G. Riddle and a second banger.

4/5 stars

Awesome!
besides the love story, which was far fetched, it was awesome. I wished there was a part 2 to explore the world further.

Took 50% of the book to get interesting but by then it had already lost me.

Book: 5/5
Series: 5/5

Best series I have read in a while, maybe ever.

Book: 3/5 stars
Series: 4/5 stars

This book should not exist. So little happens, so much is padded with meaningless blabbering.
There are dialogues with one line per page, filled with the authors, sometimes nonsensical, blabbering in between. It's a pity such an awesome series ends in such an unsatisfying way.
The explanations given are chaotic, illogical and just hand waved away.
The prose got to me at the end, in a bad way. The first 2 books were stuffed with so much awesomeness that the weird prose did not bother me too much but once you are left with not much story and just the prose, that is often hard to comprehend, it gets old quickly. Had to force myself to read through it.
Overall it was not a ‘bad' book, it just pales in comparison to the first two books which are masterpieces.

Still one of the best series I have read in the last years. Would recommend.

4.5/5

Brando Sando can do now wrong.
Better than the first book.

Awesome

3.5/5

I might just not like classic sci-fi.
Most of the book it was 2.5 -3 stars but the ending was amazing.

2.5/5 stars

Well that was a very clever book on so many levels but unfortunately it was also a slog.
If you read the poppy wars you basically read this book in a less boring fashion but it's basically the same story down to the ending.

Well this was a disappointment. This book throws you in an awesome mystery and provides 0 answers at the end. 3/4 of the book is wasted with pointless soap opera like human drama frenemy BS. The author could have used those pages to explore the sci-fi elements and actually provide some answers ans closure but instead he chose to bore us with 2 women pickering. There are some interesting things happening in part 3 of the book but it was condensed on a few pages in favour of f...-ing human drama.
Should have DNFed this one.

Just awesome. Draws you in from the first chapter.
And the last 100 pages..... Chef's kiss

2.5/5 stars

Underwhelming.

How people can like this is beyond me.
It's such a pretentious shitshow with 100% unlikeable asshole character.
I wished they all died.

4.5/5 stars

Awesome book from cover to finish.
It is almost worth it to suffer through the first book.
The only complaint I would have is that the 2 Yirella endings contradict each other and ends on a semi-cliffhanger.
I hope Mr. Hamilton picks up that thread some day.

2.5/5 stars - it's ok

Underwhelming describes this book best, imho.
It starts out strong. very engaging, then gets boring and fizzles out at the end.
Twice as long as it needs to be.

The writing is top notch though, really love his writing style.

Starts really weirdly and the prose is a bit hard to get used but the story is fascinating.
Enjoyed that one a lot.

4.5/5 stars

A little slow in the middle but other than that a fantastic book.

This is less of a novel and more of a loosely connected short story collection, which is infuriating.
The overarching story arcs are fantastic and interesting but get interrupted by the short stories which shed light on the lives of the main characters, much like the first Hyperion book.
If that is your jam, great, if not this is going to be a disappointment.


The Ending is just great though. Bought book #2 already.

4.5/5 stars

This was great, from start to finish.

Let's get this straight, this is not a 4 star book but I enjoyed it like a 4 star book....

Yes the premise is ludicrous on so many levels and the ‘logic' is preposterous but as soon as you can silence the voice in the back of your head that says ‘thats not how that works ..... that does not make any sense .... wait what? wtf? no!... omg she said fermi paradox ...' this book is so much fun and the definition of a page turner.
Gripping from the start to the last chapter with twists and turns I did not see coming, at all.

Will most definitely read another book by Mr. Riddle.

2/5 stars

The most amazing, funny, smart, likeable protagonist in the most boring, pointless, slog of a story.

The narrator of the audiobook was brilliant though, without her I probably would have dnf-ed it.

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.

4.5/5 stars

That was a surprisingly amazing ride through time.

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.

What a fitting, hard to read, grim, sad, glorious, devastating, spectacular, moving, cruel, perfect ending for a great series.


There are a few issues with the book like unresolved storylines, rambling, repetitiveness, meandering and about 200 unneeded pages too much. For example, the whole trifecta storyline was pointless and just dragged book 3 out without any meaningful closure or impact on the plot.

Overall it was a fantastic, gripping book that conveyed hopelessness, despair and the horrors of war very vividly, so I am not sure if I can stomach reading any further R.F. Klang books tbh, glad I read this series though.

I am conflicted, just like Rin.