Nathaniel

Not bad, but it really feels like a paint by number.

Popcorn.

Give me all your stories of strange immortality.

I'd love to talk about the very end, I didn't follow the last page very well.

Very pleasing characters.

Everything but the epilogue gets 5 stars, but I can't forgive the author's choice at the end. There would never be a moment of tension for me in the rest of the series, if consequences don't stick.

[Spoiler]In the philosophy of Scott Sigler, Dead = Dead[/spoiler]

This book really clicked when I read a popular fan theory about time travel and possession.

Maximum stars!

Fantastic horror. The flavor of Laird Barron, but with a very relatable protagonist.

This isn't my jam- I don't like cyberpunk, and I've never dabbled in LitRPG.

HOWEVER.

This was great. A ton of interesting twists and turns, and a satisfying ending. A protagonist I liked and was interested in.

Whooooweee this was a good one. I was fully committed by 30 pages in.
I would have bought another copy to read if I had forgotten this one at home over a weekend.

Ooh, yeah, this goes on the top shelf. This storytelling is what science fiction is for.

Three very unique reads, all satisfying in the finish. I recommend.

The last quarter made up for a slow start.

I am WAY outside the target demographic for this, but it still had some lines that furrowed my brow, and let me consider my life for a moment.

Glad I finished it, probably won't tackle the sequels.

I was worried this would read as a trashy travelogue- it does not.

Well arranged, not too concise, and avoids feeling long-winded. I recommend.

Know what the three-body physics problem is before you start, or the first half of the book feels like Vague-posting.

I'm glad I read it, but it didn't hook me enough to grab the next book in the series.

Find me a chapter without a quote worth pinning down. I dare you.

The geography was the only believable part.

Tortuously fabricated dialogue, absurd placement of a revelation about the mystery, and what is, at it's core, a story of a guy's canoe trip.

I am not certain the sidekick Zack actually exists, and isn't just a conversational mirror.

And the mystery? I'm going to spoil it right here. I wouldn't, but the quality of the book demands I save others the strain of surviving to the end. Wolverines, and moose that wandered into an area they didn't traditionally occupy. Two critters, mixed up sightings.

However I review this, it needs double the score.

This was certainly a unique read. I found it quite pleasing, and well paced.

It was even worth listening to the occasional bit of French.

This is by far the best I've read by Sigler. It's rare that I feel genuine suspense in a book, but this had me guessing quite a bit about what the date of the characters would be.

I'm pleased to say it's better than the first, and I'm excited to follow through to the third!

I did NOT tear up at the end. Absolutely not at all. None.

This is a high altitude view of the industrial revolution, and for that purpose it's great. It answered a lot of the questions I had about how we went from smithing to factories.

The first portion of the book has a bit of “high school history paper” to it, but it's about what I was looking for.

A good toe in the door of industrial history, and 9t gave me some leads on where to go next.

For the first third, I was just riding along. “Ok, I kind of remember this character, what was going on with this guy, where is this happening... Wait. WHO JUST DIED. WAIT, THEY DIED?!”

I realized I was COMMITTED.

I'm in for book 3.

I had a few troubles with this book, but enjoyed it overall, and am glad I read it.

If you plan to follow, a quarter of the way through there's about 45 minutes of incomprehensible dream sequence. It's ok if you don't follow it.