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Mike Finn
Mike Finn rated it 8 years ago
"The Drysine Legacy" carries straight of from "Renegade" but manages to crank up the complexity and broaden the scope of the story to include even more aliens and to get deeper into the AI threat. Like its predecessor, it's a long book but the pages fly by and the story never drags. I always wante...
Mike Finn
Mike Finn rated it 8 years ago
I finally reached the point where I'd read all six of Joel Shepherd's excellent Cassandra Kresnov books and I found that I missed his wide ranging imagination, his sharp-edged politics and his characters: strong, passionate, sometimes flawed but always believable. So I went looking to see what els...
Mike Finn
Mike Finn rated it 8 years ago
"Originator" is the sixth and (apparently) the last Cassandra Kresnov book. I'm sad to see this series end. I've enjoyed every book. Each one has taken me deeper into this world, Each one has seen Kresnov grow and become more complex, more powerful and yet, somehow, more likable. *Originator" has ...
Mike Finn
Mike Finn rated it 9 years ago
“Operation Shield” continues straight on from where “23 Years On Fire” finished, which is probably the only problem I have with what was otherwise a very enjoyable read: the first hundred or so pages of “Operation Shield” felt more like the (slightly anti-climatic conclusion to “23 Years On Fire” th...
IntheZone
IntheZone rated it 9 years ago
This was a entertaining book even though it was somewhat slow to capture my attention during reading this. It has a great finish and I am looking forward to the 2nd book in the series.4 stars for a fun read.
Mike Finn
Mike Finn rated it 9 years ago
The Cassandra Kresnov in "23 Years On Fire" is more grown up and much more dangerous than the kick-ass killbot who'd rather surf than fight that I met in the first three books of the series. This Cassandra Kresnov has had time between political/military crises to think about who she is and what sh...
Mike Finn
Mike Finn rated it 10 years ago
This is one of those books that it's easy to misrepresent. I've seen it described as a SF techno/polictical thriller about an ass-kicking, sexy, killer android. And it is. Except... it really isn't. What keeps me reading these books is that it is not about how exciting it is to see a fembot in act...
Mike Finn
Mike Finn rated it 10 years ago
Three things make "Crossover" a good solid science fiction novel: an action-packed cyberpunkish plot about far future inter-stellar political and military intrigue, a willingness to explore the issues around whether an man-made soldier can also be a person and, most of all, strong female character...
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Im rating this book 3.5 Stars. The reason behind this is because for most of the book i thought it was only okay - good. but the last 20% was pretty awesome, i was tempted to go with 4 stars, but i just dont think only 20% no matter how good deserves a whole extra star. So there we have it. 3.5. n...
want a real life adventure? come to Australia we have spiders bigger than your hand.
Page 37 - ugh the descriptions keep taking away from the story. they just pop up randomly in the middle of a scene and last at least a paragraph, then it just randomly goes back into the scene. leaving the reader confused and sometimes needing to back-track just to see what the scene was even about ...
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