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The Pacific Theatere gets screwed.

Revisado: 08-28-24

The Navy, Marine and Army flyers in the Pacific theatre gets almost zero attention in this. A P40 is flown above Oahu then an F6F Flys over Tokyo. No Corsair. No P38. One Sentence about F6F. A little Buffalo. Pretty disappointing.

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Brutal and Beautiful World Building

Revisado: 06-28-24

I'm a fan of this author. I have a bias. That being said the world this book and the previous book are set in have captured my imagination. I was looking forward to this for a very long time and I'm not disappointed. Some other reviews express disappointment... I think The Blacktongue thief was funny. It was a narrative from a different character with a different story to tell. This book was about Galva and I found the action and imagery awesome and terrible. The goblins aren't just "bad" like in a Tolkien novel, they are horrific. Buehlman is a fantastic horror writer and mixing this high fantasy with his brand of horror is a powerful combination. My only regret is now we need to wait for the next entry.

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Like 80s hair metal, too many gimmicks.

Revisado: 06-14-23

This book was fun to listen to. I felt like I was listening to a video game plot.

That being said I feel alot of valuable time that could have been spent investing in creating a real sense of world and character was instead spent on filling up a toy box of every recognizable type of monster from pop culture; I felt like this book was full of a lot of shiney stuff the author went after instead of driving the plot forward. Do I need to know if there is a plant that can mimic its last victim? Or that so and so is one of countless people that died tagging along for 10 years with this group? I guess so. But the comedy as an aside device is used to death.

The messy narrative made the plot easy to miss between so many tangents.

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yeah I guess that's really how it ends

Revisado: 01-04-23

this one movee fast.
I was reluctant to get into this series but I'm really glad I did. all the characters but one were very interesting. can't say I'm happy about the end but no one was.

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Not another boring Vampire romance

Revisado: 12-10-22

I put off getting this one. But I wanted more from the author after my 4th listen of the Blacktongue Thief.
Boy, this book was cool. It's like the movie Death Proof or some other sports car movie but with vampires that are WICKED evil. If you are like me and like horror and the macabre, check this book out. This one has it all (except boring teen vampire romance).

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It was alright!

Revisado: 11-26-22

I mean a total bummer start to finish and I found it hard to keep track of the characters. But alright.
I found this book because it was compared to Deep River by Karl Marlantes. This book WAS political... but not like that. That book didn't deal with ecology hardly ever. Very much written along the lines of how people felt about the PNW forests and forests everywhere then. This book deals with that and more. I don't want to say anything negative... I enjoyed the history and regret forest practices it discusses. Overall worth a listen. Strap in for alot of tragic first people's stories though.

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my new favorite book!

Revisado: 10-19-22

I can't wait for more. this book was an incredible adventure all the way through and I can't wait for a sequel.
I'm going to start it over right now!

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Outstanding

Revisado: 10-16-22

If you enjoyed "The great mortality" you'll enjoy this book. I didn't realize how good this was going to be!

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Okay, Boomer

Revisado: 08-11-22

I did not enjoy this book. The author sounds like a total drag. All of the topics seem to be treated equally. He calls birth control use a fantasy without even touching on women's lib. In general the author isn't sex positive at all. It was like being talked down too for 8 hours. Honestly it didn't feel objective. It felt like he was moralizing. Even how people don't wear "grown up clothes" to work anymore. No stone was left untouched. Exhausting.

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I listened to it in a day. it was fine.

Revisado: 04-10-22

First of I enjoyed this book. It was better than anything streaming so there's that. I listened to he whole thing on a Saturday. But going into it just have the right expectation


I first heard about this novel in a podcast. I feel like I took from that interview that this would be more of an analytical look at what things might be like given what is known about modern warfare.

Not so much.

I mean first it's a novel not a book (all novels are books not all books are novels). So it's a dramatic thriller set against a near future somewhat believable sugar coated version of a conflict between the USA and China where multiple cities are destroyed.

But the destruction of those cities is completely glossed over. Maybe the authors didn't want to get gratuitous with casualty descriptions. But with one exception the loss isn't presented to the reader as anything other then a plot device for further weapons being used or not used. Which I guess is the point but like 60 million people dying probably needed a few pages or some other character to explore that situation.

Next the story is full of non sequiturs from beginning to end. Everything is unexplained and completely vague and the story feels more implausible as you're railroaded through this thing. I.e. Someone has a hunch... someone has a hugely important family member you're just finding out about... it's the post modern internet era so of course every government is omnipresent... and it just goes on and on like that.

I also felt like the authors squeezed in some ”coincidental" pop culture references with the characters that made me roll my eyes... the fighter pilot's call sign is Wedge (Star Wars) and his real last name is Mitchell (TopGun).

Give me a break.

Maybe the military veterans with author credit on this advised and created some sort of timeline and handed it off to be ghost written.

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