troy

The story is about how people learn from the mistakes from the generations before, and how they go about making their own.

Every time there was a huge leap forward in the society, you could feel the hope and wonder the population was emanating... that moment of "what if". Then that wonderful hope was deflated by the nay-sayers, who didn't want society to change, to keep everyone in the status quo for their own selfish desires.

I struggled with my this, my final paragraph, for a little while. Everything I wrote was laden with spoilers, imagined or implied. So I will say, I do hope our world can face the future with the dignity and ingenuity that was portrayed on our behalf.

p.s. this story has aliens, cyborgs, uplifted dolphins, asteroid mining, habitations in space, caste based societies, underwater treasure hunting, and dirigibles.

I love the Dresden files books. This story is somewhere between love letter to Dresden Fans but then it kicks up all the mythology of the world.

This story takes us back into the Dresden's world, we get to explore the mantel of the Winter Knight, reconnect with friends and allies we met over the books, and then we even get a Great Hunt.

Jim Butcher can tell such a great story. I would consider him one of the master story tellers in our generation. This series is well crafted.

This came up in my recommendation list for a few months, so I got it. I am more into the sci-fi and fantasy aspect of genre. When the story started, I started getting the feeling this would go into far future sci-fi with quantum entanglement destiny binding. Then the world ended and a few stragglers were battling for survival against a plague of vampires.

Quite honestly, this kind of shocked me and I didn't see the vampires coming at all.

This is a comforting sci-fi adventure. By comforting, I mean that this is a sci-fi adventure that has some solid world building and a plot that really feels like it needs to be told. I enjoy the cultural and economic principles that were introduced. I also really liked how a lot of effort was put into the description of the spaceships.

I wasn't ready for this story to end, when the final chapter came up. I am really glad that this is a book series, and that I get to return to it's universe when Audible Credit Day comes around again in a few weeks.

I recommend this book.

p.s. tentacles

I picked up the Iron Druid books in an audible sale not to long ago. I picked this one up, because it was inexpensive. The scope of these books are the definition of epic.

I have enjoyed all these stories, and I enjoyed Two Ravens and One Crow.

My favorite character remains, The Morrigan.

Please be assured that I say this from a place of respect... I find these books just lacking just a bit extra depth to make them truly stunning.

These books wouldn't be gifts for someone else, but I still bought them for myself. This is just one more satisfying adventure story.

Set in the near future artificial intelligence is emerging. There are different generations getting more and more advanced and regulated.

This specific story has so many mosaic pieces that it began to feel like a collage of stories layered in. If it was structured differently as a collection of novellas all taking place in one world, the layers wouldn't be so loosely connected.

The metaphysical warping of the space time continuum altering the perception of straight progression of cause and effect, was an interesting application... but in my cynical mind, I could also see it as a corner the author backed himself into.

It was an interesting concept overall.

"The body you are wearing used to be mine." is how the book started, and from the moment, the momentum was never really lost.

The story introduces you to the secret world of the British Civil Service that believes in cast structure, hierarchy, and the war like competence of those who were born afflicted with unique talents.

There was a girl born with silver delicate antlers, another born with the ability to see thru walls, another developed the ability to tap into the emotional resonance of every left handed person on Earth, and even someone who could effect the weather of a scandinavian country.

There were a few forgivable clunky gushy moments that were introduced to serve the final scene. I can see that the characters earn what ever happiness they could meek out.

I would continue to read books from this world, if this spawns a series.

Redshirts was definitely fun to read through and the Codas at the end were a very lovely addition that John Scalzi like's to write.

This book won't be for the average reader, the level of meta-ness that exists to the point where the 4th wall is shattered. This novel explores a layer of philosophical existential crisis that (I hope) we have all played with.

I was expecting a sci-fi romp featuring Redshirts but this book went beyond that trope and went into unique and unexpected places.

Give it a listen.

I really enjoy the series so far. That thing with the Traveller girl was well crafted. I normally like to think of myself as intelligent, but the first time through the book I some how was caught off guard when we learn why she is so strong.

I am just blown a way by the perfect way it is crafted into story telling, because it keeps her from being over-powered at the beginning of the stories and saves up the bad-assery for the climatic battles.

Larry Correia is now on my Must Read lists.

This book kept coming up in my recommendation list. The cover art kind of turned me off, the brief description seemed cliche, but I read a review where another reader had felt the same initially then changed his mind.

I picked up this novel on the long weekend in May (Canada), and listened to it non-stop. While walking the dog, doing chores, and going down to the river with my puppy. The story is gripping.

This story carves out its own niche in the noir urban alternate fantasy sci-fi historical fiction scene.