Andy Bundy

Well, that was different!

I've been giving a few 5 star ratings recently, but not without cause. This book too deserves 5 stars. The start is perhaps a little simplistic in terms of the narrative, and the whole but about winning the lottery and making upwards of £150 million was a bit of a challenge even With divine intervention.

However, to any reading this, take heart. The story pace does pick up, and becomes more believable and considered. The zombies, and their behaviour, are unusually interesting, and certainly do not stick to the standard zombie template.

I'm looking out for the sequel now. Give this book a whirl, and travel at nigjht!

A surprising ending

I read this book with maybe the same level of excitement as the crew in the story. Very few parts of the tale seemed obvious, and maybe at times the plot seemed to be moving very slowly.

But that too made sense at the end. I've always considered the reality imposed by near light speed travel to be fascinating, the connection between objective and subjective time, but this kind of turned that paradigm on its head, and the tale was all the better for it.

For other readers, give this book your full attention, and don't give up if you find it slow going. That's surely the point!

It's weird knowing the ending before you start...

The unusual way these books were written leaves you with the minor irritation of knowing how the story ends. But... This proved not to be an issue because it turns out the second book does not follow the first - it very cleverly follows a similar timeline with some clever character exchanges part way.

I generally find the while TEOTWAWKI genre to be a little boring, but even knowing that the world does end (sorry!) there are still surprised to the very end.

I'm looking forward to book three,.which does actually follow both initial books. I hope...

Second instalment fails to disappoint!

I have to say that I'm very impressed so far. This second book felt a little shorter than the first but didn't lose any of the quality of writing from the first. I remain impressed by the characters found here, and there are lots of little details dropped in here and then that tend to stand out.

That said, some of the dialogue could be improved, especially in the aviation bits. I'm not an expert, but grammatically speaking it was unclear who was speaking with each call (the order of words used). It is a little picky of me BUT given the attention to detail elsewhere it stood out.

Looking forward to the next book.

The best for a while

The story is unusual for Kindle Unlimited in that it is very much a in-flight novel rather than quickly written novellas written to formulae that we normally see.

It made an interesting usage of both the fear of bodysnatcher stories combined with the more conventional ufo ideas.

It all works. There are some howlers, the order to launch F22s off an aircraft carrier stood out, for one example. Such things can be quickly fixed (hint subtract 4 for f18).

Next stop book 2.

Love trying a new author and discovering a new form of excitement

I'm stuck with peripheral neuropathy which is messing with my hands so this will be short. Firstly I love the slow burn build up leading to the separation and then the mothering great battle with the earth shattering kaboom!

I felt some synergy with Evan Currie's work, the use of NACS and the on going battle with Sino-Russians but then divergence starts no more than half way through his first book, but I don't know who got there first, and the over population model depicted here is found in many bools.

Either way... Excellent character building, good story-telling and quite believable.

Thankfully my wife permits me Kindle Unlimited!

Bring it on!!!

These spinoffs just keep getting better

I've never known a single book series spawn so many different spin-off threads as have the Kurtherian series. That there is an almost supernatural consistency tying all the different stories coherently, more or less, into the same larger picture is beyond belief.

Personally, as much as we all love BA, I'm really glad to see TH and the extended pack so the honourable thing in letting the earth go its own way after 150 years of TLC, and more so that they've so quickly found a niche for their unique skills and teamwork out in the galaxy at large.

Finally, despite my dear of Baba Yaga, let Pepsi drinkers unite, though maybe updating to Pepsi Max might help the team work harder???

Please (repeat x 50) can we have more?

Accessible version of the Three Body Problem

I recall slogging through Cixin Liu's rather longer book, regretting that it could have been shorter and easier to digest. I never went back for seconds, though I've regretted that.

Here comes ‘New Eden ‘ which captures.a similar.theme about the essence of individuality and being human, and builds a stunning story around it. I think the title is perfect, the end result a literal ‘Garden of Eden' provided we accept the price.

Bring on the sequel!!

The hits keep on coming

Well, I'm very pleased to see my previous comments didn't tempt fate (unlike some comments by the characters which always seem to court disaster. The narrative.works well, though there is still a degree of “we're perfect” on the part of the characters which seems a common feature of this kind of fiction (I remember the Space Force series suffered from this).

Sometimes the good guys can be imperfect??

That said, I'm criticising a small element as that's the worst I can find.

If you're still reading this then you should be downloading this book!!

Wow! Nice to find something new to enjoy

I've been an unlimited customer on Kindle for a long while,many have.come to accept the high volume, lesser quality, model which characterises this market. That is not to say that ‘free' books are not good books, but high volume output has its downside.

I spotted this book yesterday, and enjoyed devouring it. I really enjoy the characterisation and details interspersed here. The author clearly knows something of what he speaks and this tends to show in strange ways.

One jarring detail, for example, which highlights this skill was in the description of the veterans being recruited. There was a mention of ‘raised tables' in a bar which was interesting. Such things are rarely found in the real world (as I know myself as a 6'3” powered wheelchair user) . Few authors would use such a detail to build our a characterisation, especially in such an indirect manner.

There are many other similar details along the.same trend.

I have great hopes for the series, and fingers crossed the same level of detail will follow.

Back to the escapism fun of my youth

I've got to admit that I've read through a number of hard-sci-fi genre books recently, from space operas to ‘re-listening to the fully completed BBC radio 4 version of Hitchhikers Guide.

I recently tripped over the pair of ONSET books written but one of my recent space opera authors, and realised I had been missing the whole vampire and were scene for a long term. After all, you can only believe so many zombie books.

MIchael, both of them, the author and initial character both chose an excellent character, backing her up with an unexpected alien sidekick and an ever growing posse of devoted warriors.

Yes, it has the odd typo, the author uses a MacBook after all, but they are rarely obvious, likely caused by poor keyboards, predictive typing or speech recognition, and subtracts nothing from the story.

5 stars, all the way

The book which spawned a series covering centuries, wherein he extended and rather confusing, if brave and full of derring-do, so their best to survive the end of the world in the form of WW3, then again in the form of some unexplained but scientifically obvious burning out of the atmosphere, and finally, if this was not enough, a general lack of popularity forcing them back into suspended animation for another while.

Find out how it all started, and how a series of thirty plus books spanning centuries began. Meet John Rourke, All American super soldier, spy, doctor and expert on everything, and his trusty sidekick.

If reading fails to tickle your fancy, the main story arc as originally written has been recorded and distributed by Graphic Audio in a multi character dramatic set of audio dramas.