Blog, Page 49

The good Helps to raise an important issue to public consciousness. I had no idea how bad the opioid epidemic had gotten: the #1 cause of death...

The good At times, the writing is beautiful. Charming characters. The scenes with the Count and Sofia are particularly endearing: their convers...

The good Lots of cool worldbuilding. A number of interesting characters. Some decent action scenes. A fun, grand adventure....

The good Somewhat interesting premise around a dystopian future where the survivors in post-apocalyptic Chicago have organized society into 5 factions: d...

A fun third entry in the series. Plenty of action, cool sci-fi tech, ruminations on AI, quick problem-solving, and more I’m-a-murder-bot-who-is-awkward humor. Thi...

The good Takes all the world building from the first book and ramps it up a notch. You get a lot more cool sci-fi tech, alien races, politics, war, spy g...

The good Unique, lovely writing style. Interesting characters. Cool concept of a games house where they play not only games like ches...

I’m a bit torn on this book. On the one hand, it feels like the account of that friend you had in college who drank a lot and did drugs and went on crazy adventur...

Not sure why this book is so well known/regarded. It was reasonably well written and the initial “who am I” mystery was interesting, but after that, it seemed to ...

An entertaining second entry in the series. Lots of fun action, technology, AI, and a little bit of humor. Again, the main drawback is that these books are so sho...