Showing posts with label space pirates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label space pirates. Show all posts

Saturday, 3 March 2018

Theatre of the Gods by M Suddain Review

Theatre of the GodsTheatre of the Gods by Matt Suddain
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This was fantastic! The plot jumped all over the place for the first 300 pages with hilarious results and considering the main objective of the Character Fabrigas is to jump to another universe, this works beautifully.
One of the things I loved the most of the pop culture references. I wish the "traditional sea shanties" had continued into the second half of the book because the image of a dirty, disreputable rabble of grisaled sailors singing mixed up versions of pop songs is one of the funniest things I have read...ever!

The second half of the book is where the plot settles down and goes in a more linear fashion. This is where the action really heats up and once the homunculus shows up we're really cooking with gas.
Awesome book really worth the read.
I want more from these universes.

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Wednesday, 25 December 2013

Amari By Steven Atwood Review

Amari is a science fiction, dystopian future, space adventure where the UN took over the running of the known universe after the GFC. They became power hungry tyrants that basically became thought police. They shipped people off to Mars to be “Re-educated” in the mines and others who escaped colonised Europa and beyond, creating places ripe for piracy and black market trading.
I think I was hoping for Firefly and was sorely disappointed.  I also thought I could read around the religious aspects of the book but couldn’t. The idea that all the religious people were calm and righteous and all those against religion were cruel, callous and fear their own death more than anything else really grated on me. Mainly because I read science fiction because it reflects the world quite well and I don’t see this as the way the world is. Simple being religious does not suddenly make you a perfect person as it seemed to do in this story.
The further you go in the book the more grammatical errors there are, which slows down the reading process dramatically.
If religion is the saviour of you world and you like science fiction with that flavour, this would be a great book for you but not me.

I received this book from Library Thing’s Members Giveaways. 2.5 stars out of 5