by Neal Asher
First off, a shout out to Grim for being so darn patient with me while I was reading this! We were meant to be doing a buddy read, but I was slow. Gridlinked was the first full length Sci Fi book I've read in roughly 4 years. I had forgotten how much you really need to slow down, and absorb the worl...
The world that Neal Asher creates is one of the future: it's just as dirty and gritty as ours, it's realistic, it's violent, and it has tons of robots and AIs. Yes, yes, yes! I loved this book so damn much. I'm going to read book two now. Yes, please!
Entertaining, fast-paced. A bit predictable, but ultimately fun.
Forgettable
Another recent author I've been meaning to try for a while. Well, I've read a short story or two but this is the first novel. This, apparently, is an introduction to the world of Ian Cormac, a legendary ECS agent on the side of law enforcement. He's had his brain hooked up to the information grid ("...
About 85% done according to Kindle: a brawny, masculine book about an insensitive super agent. The story is more about action than sense or motivations. Characters are introduced and killed without compassion. A cold book that reminds me of action movies such as Mission Impossible or Captain Amer...
Well that was a whole lot of words about nothing. There's some okay action, but don't expect anything close to a satisfying ending that actually explains what on earth was going on.
Well written, but nothing that hasn't been done before, as well or better.
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