The Mongoliad: Book One by Neal Stephenson and Greg Bear and Mark Teppo and E.D. deBirmingham and Erik Bear and Joseph Brassey and Cooper Moo

The best kind of storytelling for me - I had to keep going to see what happened. I have no idea about the historical accuracy of this book, but I plan to find out! Looking forward to reading Vol. 2.

A decent start to a series. An interesting experiment in semi-historical fantasy, being released online. This is the first of these stories published in novel form..

I enjoy Stephenson, but didn't really get any feel for which parts he may have written, but it was a good fantasy book, just not spectacular...

Slow start, exciting middle, abrupt ending. Main characters were interesting. I'm guessing the authors consider the whole series as a cohesive story and just stopped book one when they reached a certain number of chapters.

This was quite a disappointment. A great setting, put in interesting historical period and place. However, I don't remember when read such a chaotically written book. Jumping from place to place, cutting scenes all the time. I guess that was made to make the storytelling more dramatic or dynamic. Moreover, none of the characters made me care of their motivations. Too many of them and not really properly introduced or developed. On top of that, the main premise of the story is just plain silly... I don't really think I will continue with the sequels.