I enjoyed it and i think the level of creativity is really high, i must say he could maybe have descirbed the characters and landscapes etc. a little bit more, because I struggeled to form a clear picture of the area and such details in my head. This does leave quite a lot of room for your imagin...
i didn't like this installment in the series.i was quite fond of the first book, but ii felt like this one lacked both character development, and plot development. both were there, but felt mediocre. i really feel like the first two books could have been one novel, as reading them both in one sit...
A very interesting premise and setting, and a clever way of instantly characterizing the involved people by making use of real-world concepts. The triplicate layer of the setting's powers is marked improvement on most other fantasy stories, that usually have just the 'old magic' vs. 'new industri...
Great imagination! Great ideas. Writing needs work. However, this is the first book in the series and he has written 10 books in the series. I hear that his writing gets better. If his writing can catch up to his imagination than this could be one hellluva series. I will come back to this. We wil...
This one was excellent and a perfect follow-up to the first book in the series. I did begin to see some of the author's influences in this one. There is definitely some "LOTR" influence with the concept of a broken fellowship and the reliance on unexpected allies. Obviously, the presence of an ev...
Despite the fact that all but the 7th book in the Shadows of the Apt series were written before I started reading the first one, I can’t help but feel that Adrian Tchaikovsky somehow channeled my review of Dragonfly Falling when he was writing Blood of the Mantis. It is far more likely that Tcha...
This one is more like 4.5 stars, or almost 5 stars. I struggled with the beginning of the book because I was little burned out from plowing through the first 3 so quickly. However, this book picks up around the midpoint and then does not slow down until the end. I particularly found it interestin...
Book five of the Shadows of the Apt was a welcome return to the series post war with the Empire. In the previous books, the author would alternate writing styles that first focus on character development, and then a switch in focus on the war and politics. This book is a return of focus on some o...
The Sea Watch is the sixth book in the Shadows of the Apt series and starts off as pacey as ever with mysteries and conspiracies abounding! :D The Sea Watch picks up from where the previous book in the series, The Scarab Path, left off but with focus returning to Collegium and the various truces...
Myna itself was in chaos, the streets fiercely contested between the Wasp garrison and the local forces. It’s as though they know what we’re about to do, Gannic thought. The reality of what they were planning – what his vaunted technical expertise would propagate – was something he was doing his ...
Only the desperate and the starving roam the streets. There have been attacks – the healthy assaulting those they believe to be sick, the hungry stealing food, the incurably deranged attacking whatever their inner demons prompt them to. And yet the straining strands of the community have not quit...
. . and I breathe it like the air, now. The smell of the guns is become to me like water to a fish: a thing I take for granted. At first it was simply something that I did not notice any more. Now it is a part of my life I cannot live without. There is power in pulling a trigger: power over the w...
For the briefest of moments she was unsure where she was, but the very air said Khanaphes even before her eyes had opened to the ancient city’s distinctive architecture.Or to see Amnon, already clad in his battered, piecemeal armour of dark, fluted metal, with a snapbow over his shoulder and his ...
He was back late tonight, having spent the last hour wrangling with a Master of the social history faculty who had taken issue over his Student Company. Their meeting had not gone well. She had ordered him to dissolve the force, and he had outright refused, and now the matter would apparently go ...