Tag: canadian

This was terrible. It wasn’t that the story didn’t resolve in a satisfying way. That’s subjective. What the letdown was here was everything else: The writing was awful! Like early-draft Project Hail Mary bad. Pointless jokes made at inappropriate times. Weirdly informal snark and sarcasm while the planet is in peril. Ridiculous dialogue acrobatics to fill in…

Flawless followup. The best thing about the second book in a trilogy is that you don’t have to worry about answering questions. Just raise the stakes. And Neuvel does it perfectly here. Just blockbuster fun. I could not put it down. The format sings, the action scenes are executed perfectly, and there are tons of…

Picked this up on the reco of my local used bookstore owner. The guy knows my taste, it seems. This is fun as hell. A lot of the first half felt very much like a throwback to 60s sci-fi, but the politics and ideas in the second half of the book are current and well…