Defalt

Nice YA and grim dark mix

Great intro giving a lot of information with only necessary descriptions just in 70 pages. And overall the story is fast paced and gripping and presents some twists and betrayals very early. It also features awesome, realistic action and many really different, detailed environments. Some episodes are a bit too nice, though, for example the oaths.

The main character struggles a lot and his growth is really visible and understandable, although he’s a bit too lucky but that's fine. And all the other characters are really varied and interesting. The ending is very cool and intriguing.

Can’t wait to read the whole series!

Dark and action packed

Incredible, really detailed art featuring reflections in helmets and glasses, a lot of cool close ups on scary faces, amazing issues covers and great two page spreads. Also flashbacks are done in a different, very suitable art style.

And the story has a surprising amount of other DC characters and some cool twists with the villain. The ending is a bit too sudden.

Gotta read more Batman comics!

Creative, classic sci-fi

Not another boring sci-fi about serving the army, although still describing very familiar and painful army drafting in the beginning, with a lot of fantastic features—dangerous, out of nowhere spies, simple conversations about life, a lot of really funny situations. And the harsh reality of the army service is just to the point, unlike Starship Troopers.

It’s just one old fashioned, sci-fi idea after the other in really various environments. Also some descriptions, which are very few here overall, are really imaginative.

However, the ending is a bit too rough.

Makes me want to reread The Stainless Steel Rat and other great Harrison's stories.

Murderbot comes to the rescue

Again there are a few reminders about the events of the previous—now three—books, still not a fan of this.

The plot thickens but it's still not too deep or difficult to follow. Although all of the main character's actions are mostly familiar they still feel interesting because of different situations and environments and the action is pretty cool. Also there are a few personal, emotional conversations so I have to rate this one higher even considering the length.

And the ending is really nice!

Still can’t get enough of this series, and the novella size should make it fun to reread.

Confusing time jumps

There are some nice features—grand, fascinating, new sci-fi ideas like dark forest deterrence game theory and other dimensions, interactions with 4th dimension, dark forest proof, sophon in human society, shocking action episode with heavy consequences, some creepy anomalies. But these features happen so rarely over the course of the 700 pages book and are made insignificant by everything else in the book. Like Singer is so interesting, unusual and excellently shows a perspective of a super powerful civilization. Why is there only one small chapter about him?

It reads like a documentary in some chapters describing a character's biography and history and jumps around time periods that were already explored in the previous books. Overall there are a lot of time jumps here with too many explanations. And the very long and vague fairytales holding some very important secrets that require too much time to decipher, yeah, that’s what we need in a sci-fi story about dark forests and aliens. And author being too sexist in places—introvert scientist who "had never even touched woman", very feminine men who look strange to the main character who is a woman—like it’s from 1970s, not 2010.

Also after a few disasters with the same kind of solution in a row it becomes really hard to care, especially when the main character who is much less interesting than those in the previous books and with the dialogues being terrible in places. The last part of the book, about 100 pages, being really dark doesn’t help at all.

I hope this story can be presented in a more exciting way in the 2nd and 3rd seasons of the series as this world has a lot of potential.

Frozen Madness

Really beautiful, mesmerizing snow landscapes and various, giant, frozen equipment and the caves look bizarre and really odd, though faces can look just a bit strange in some places. Fascinating mirages of an ancient city and old fashioned dialogues.

Too much time is spent on the exploration with no interesting results and a few scenes are not very detailed.

Interesting to see where the story goes next and how it ends!

Detective Murderbot 2

The intro tells how our murderbot got into a new situation but overall it feels like a direct continuation of the previous book (if we just remove a little recap about some events). Again a lot of exploration in the first third but then the action starts very suddenly.

A few really nice features—the global plot thickens, cool and dangerous detective work, really heart breaking moments here, nice ending with a hint of what to expect next.

Can’t get enough of this series!

Where's Guts in this one?

Starts with a cool action scene, but then not a lot happens, too much time is spent on exploring the inquisition and heretics with a lot of horrifying, extremely violent inquisition torture scenes and heretics hunt so it becomes a bit less interesting to take in the art.

Epic

Still very beautiful, features weird, interesting machine world, a lot of epic scenes and two page panels.

Kinda short, though with a couple good, emotional moments.

Robot vs Vampires

A lot more variously, beautifully coloured panels compared to the previous volume. A couple interesting flashbacks to show what some of the familiar characters were doing after Descender. And cool action with vampires.

Also there’s some mystery about Mila and a cliffhanger ending.