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I Loveddd this book. I thought it was extremely well done and totally captivating throughout the entirety of the story. It has something for everyone here: action, an underdog, betrayal, quest, love, friendship, hardship, etc. This book was unlike anything I have ever read. Set in a futuristic world, there was also some alarm as it did a really good job of potentially predicting what the world may look like in the 2040s. I do think we are progressing that way technologically. I don't want to dive in too much, but if you are looking for a sci-fi quest novel with the above themes that is equal parts endearing and entertaining, then look no further! Highly recommend for al geeks/nerds, and lovers of all things 1980s.

Ya know... I'm not really sure what was happening. At like any point of this book. I loved the first, Damned, though at times it was slow (interestingly enough those points were where chuck fanned his extravagant vocabulary and provocative sexual innuendos). The first this was bearable, this Doomed left me feeling just that. I had ended up listening audiobook style which left me even more wtf???? than I was just reading. Real disappointed. I'm a big fan of Chuck's work, loooooved Invisible Monsters (read 2x which never happens) but this was a sad excuse for a sequel. Makes me wanna throw him in the streets like, SHAME ! SHAME ! SHAME ! (GOT crowd style)

Pretty good book but def can tell it was written by 2 men. Rape jokes, constant violence (the title delivers) and the plot being a glorified dick measuring contest.

I'm glad the main protagonist is a woman. She's really funny and I like her personality. This story reminded me of Scott pilgrim a little bit.

Sci-fi isn't my genre but I'm reading this series for my 2024 book bingo. I will continue to finish it out but don't expect anything intricate or amazing.

When the plot is about a bunch of rich people trying to one up each other you get a lot of things that don't make sense. Like random tigers in combat? Or people living through stuff because of super advanced medicine/ cyborg technology even though they should be blown to bits?

Very Blake crouch-esque in the writing style. And now I know why I subconsciously always divert to female writers

3.75 STARS. would read again, def can tell that this is SJM first book. Incredibly good (I relate to Celenea the most out of all of the primarily characters in her books!) but some points off for lack of story development for a first book and writing depth.

This was probably the best I've read of the series yet. It follows the HBO show season 3 pretty well, however, I found that the epilogue was probably one of the most compelling parts of the book. Hinting at parts that weren't fully explored in the show (obviously). I listened to this book, and though that Roy Detrice (butchered that) was fantastic. Really happy with how this turned out to be, because it's such a large chunk of time and that would have sucked if it ended up like a Clash of Kings (yikes).