The third book in the Spatterjay series picks up directly after the end of the Voyage of the Sable Keech. This book hits the ground running and accelerates wildly afterward. There are action sequences here that must have left Asher breathless after writing them. Insane, over the top space opera that thoroughly caught me up for a fantastic read. Asher pulled out all the stops on this one. This is a Spatterjay novel and potential readers will enjoy it more thoroughly by reading The Skinner and the Voyage of the Sable Keech first. The latest in the Spatterjay series that I have read and it is just as much fun as the others. Over the series Neal Asher has collected together some fascinating sci-fi ideas, some extraordinary protagonists, androids with attitude and increasingly scary villains. All of them have to combine to combat a threat more terrifying than each other, the Jain whose military memory and experience and is coded in their DNA. This is a breakneck read, terrifically written even if the ending is a little too convenient for my liking. There is enough background material in the book for it to stand alone if necessary but I would recommend reading it as part of the series.
This concludes Asher's "Spatterjay" series, without a doubt a must-read for any Science Fiction fan.
—grammiof5
absolutely action-packed, riveting conclusion to the Spatterjay series.
—booklover1224
It's very good. Read it!
—ashque
