Jeff McNeill
Pretty good for nighttime reading for a chapter book. Boys 5 and 8 liked it a lot. Will continue witht he series.
Amazing. It works with children who are not quite ready for phonics, and works very well with my six-year-old. After a year of trying phonics (and still struggling) this has made a huge impact on his reading, and our sanity.
Can't say enough about this, it has made reading so much easier, and given a lot of insight into the limitations of early readers in English as well as other languages. Children's book authors should pay attention to this!
Slow start, confusing, jumps around, also, still a bit short. Overall, still a good Murderbot read, though I'd suggest handing it off to some junior writers, so we can get more Murderbot, faster, and likely better.
Quite a fascinating read and turns conventional conservation thinking on its head. I'll be reading this in a future where I have a few hectares, or more, to fiddle with.
Pretty good, though some repetitive grovelling by the underlings. Still, some suspense is still there even with the level 9999 everyone seems to have. Worth a read. I'll continue the series.
Good detective story, and a good Sci Fi story. These two are not usually together, but are with this remarkable novel.
Mindblowing. The number of research-based insights per page is phenomenal. Infuriating and essential.
The story on which “Edge of Tomorrow” is based. Different enough. A great read, though the ending is a bit contrived.
A decent tale, though the repetition was a bit much. Most characters are one dimensional.
Terrifying. What have we done to our children and grandchildren (if they survive)?
Great if you like historical novels (set in the 12 century). It is a bit “young adult” in terms of the protagonists. Great characters. A breath of fresh air from other historical novels which have one-dimensional characters and straightforward battle scenes. Elegant writing.
Fascinating story from declassified files about the foundation of the OSS and later the CIA, and their murderous antics in creating various weapons and other tools for spying and destruction. Morally compromised.
If one is to be in some kind of full resistance mode to another power, then this tale of organization is quite instructive and one could benefit from such a guide.
Quite good, and better than the Anime, which is also good, but goes through at a faster clip.
Illegible on Kindle, horrible structure. The decision to add snippets of text from a variety of online media, in horribly small text, is a disappointing one. Instead of telling a tale, actually narrating and describing, we have his mess of messages. Basically an abnegation of the role of the writer. It isn't too far a stretch to say that Galbraith is paying back Internet haters of her own. A bit too obvious. The final sin is simply being boring. The main relationship is endlessly the same, the detection formulaic, and even the end is a solid echo of a previous book. This Galbraith is about as interesting as an AI trained on the previous books. I've read all the previous books and watched all the shows, and am saddened that this is the last of these I'll be reading.
I've read all of this series to date, as well as other Harffy books. It is a decent continuation switching between Beobrand and Cynan's stories, which was better done in For Lord and Land. The problem comes in switching timelines, going forward, then going back to explain something that happened, then forward again. It does not add anything, and all it does is create annoyances. Nearly all of the book seems to be unartfully foreshadowed. Sure, we realize that Beobrand is out of his element in a foreign land, unable to speak the language, and being taken in and deceived by lords. But really, hasn't he had enough of this to not be such a wide-eyed urchin at this point? Three stars.
Great near-term sci fi with gene manipulation and lower Manhattan under water. Rollicking good read.
Disappointing. It was more about chatting about “writing across the curriculum” than actual informative exposition about the topic. The one, two, and three star reviews on Amazon are woefully accurate.