Zangari

The Gray Man novels are among my favorite books I've ever read, and among the few books I have read more than once. After Dead Eye (book 4) I thought the series was over, then when Back Blast came out (3 years after the previous book) I was ecstatic. As books 5, 6, and 7 came out I was pleasantly surprised at each.

After having just finished Agent in Place, however, my only thought is “please just stop”. This book (to me at least) seemed like Mark Greaney's attempt at dragging out the series. Court did nothing overly spectacular or interesting, and the story focused far too much on side characters that did not need to be focused on at all. I still liked it overall and in deference to the first 6 books I gave it 3 stars, but the series needs a drastic overhaul or an end.

Personally I would like to have a final book where Court dies - perhaps doing something incredible.

I don't know why people find this series so interesting. I listened to the first two audiobooks, hoping the second would be better than the first. They were so boring, I found it hard to focus on. The story made very little sense, it doesn't flow smoothly, it felt like there was a ton of world building missing, and the narrator was terrible.
I give it two stars because the story feels like it could be so much more, and I almost wanted to like it, but just couldn't.

This book was awful. It basically was a poorly written fan fiction full of plot holes, plot armor, inconsistencies, and inaccuracies. I'd hope that Brandon Sanderson is ashamed to even have his name on this book. I gave it the extra star above 1 only because it was still somewhat fun to read more in the Reckoners world, and the story could have been good if it was written by Brandon himself instead of the other guy.

I don't typically write reviews, but I felt I should for this book. In typical fashion, Jeremy Robinson delivered... I haven't read a book written by him yet that I haven't liked.

I must admit I sometimes get sick of his referencing his other books, and he did it again in this one, but as a jab at himself for referencing other books! It definitely had a Deadpool fourth-wall-breaking humor to it, as did much of the book.

This book was probably one of his best yet, second only to Infinite, in my opinion. I love the sarcastic wit, plus as a gamer myself I loved the battle royale theme of this book, and I understood all of the gamer references.

As an added bit of humor/coincidence/irony - the actual United States Space Force was created while I was reading this, when I came across the news article I thought I was imagining things.

I listened to the audiobook version read by Jeffery Kafer, Emily Woo Zeller, and Machelle Williams. Jeffery kafer is one of my favorite narrators, and Emily did a fantastic job as well.

I went into this book with very high expectations, that was a bad idea.

I was most excited for this book for much the same reasons a lot of people were not - because it wasn't Cosmere related. I love a good standalone story. Most likely due to my excitement and high expectations, and partly just cause of the book itself - I didn't really enjoy it.

The main character was annoying, though arguably that was intentional; the memory loss seemed somehow forced, it's compared to Project Hail Mary by Brandon himself, but comes nowhere close to that masterpiece; the humor and wit was even a bit below par for a Sanderson book.

I will say I absolutely loved the concept of the world we don't get to see - with nanites, augments, dimensional travel - and I am rather disappointed I won't get to see more of it. Even the world we did see, the alternate dimension, felt like it could have been great, but it kinda fell flat.

The artwork was fantastic, enough that after reading the audiobook and following along with the PDF, I decided to buy the premium hardcover edition mainly to enjoy the artwork in my hands, and possibly I'll give it a re-read someday.

This is one of the only books I think I have ever said I think I would have enjoyed it more if I would not have done audio.

Overall it was moderately enjoyable, the ending was satisfying enough. 3.75/5 stars.