Woken Furies
Ratings73
Average rating3.7
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Ratings73
Average rating3.7
Richard K. Morgan has received widespread praise for his astounding twenty-fifth-century novels featuring Takeshi Kovacs, and has established a growing legion of fans. Mixing classic noir sensibilities with a searing futuristic vision of an age when death is nearly meaningless, Morgan returns to his saga of betrayal, mystery, and revenge, as Takeshi Kovacs, in one fatal moment, joins forces with a mysterious woman who may have the power to shatter Harlan's World forever.Once a gang member, then a marine, then a galaxy-hopping Envoy trained to wreak slaughter and suppression across the stars, a bleeding, wounded Kovacs was chilling out in a New Hokkaido bar when some so-called holy men descended on a slim beauty with tangled, hyperwired hair. An act of quixotic chivalry later and Kovacs was in deep: mixed up with a woman with two names, many powers, and one explosive history.In a world where the real and virtual are one and the same and the dead can come back to life, the damsel in distress may be none other than the infamous Quellcrist Falconer, the vaporized symbol of a freedom now gone from Harlan's World. Kovacs can deal with the madness of AI. He can do his part in a battle against biomachines gone wild, search for a three-centuries-old missing weapons system, and live with a blood feud with the yakuza, and even with the betrayal of people he once trusted. But when his relationship with "the" Falconer brings him an enemy specially designed to destroy him, he knows it's time to be afraid. After all, the guy sent to kill him is himself: but younger, stronger, and straight out of hell.Wild, provocative, and riveting, Woken Furies is a full-bore science fiction spectacular of the highest order--from one of the most original and spellbinding storytellers at work today.From the Hardcover edition.
Series
3 primary booksTakeshi Kovacs is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2002 with contributions by Richard K. Morgan.
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J'abandonne ce roman après en avoir lu un gros tiers car l'excès de scènes d'action m'ennuie profondément et me donne envie que de sauter des chapitres entiers. Si l'action a toujours été très présente dans les deux précédents romans de cette trilogie, le dosage me paraît ici déséquilibré. Tant pis, je n'irai au bout des aventures de Takeshi Kovacs, mais je n'y prenais aucun plaisir dans ce troisième et dernier volume.
Ik herinner mij dat ik het goed vond, maar een paar maand later zelfs niet meer het flauwste idee hebben waar het over ging, is dat een goed teken? Ofwel was het boek niet echt dát, ofwel begin ik mentaal af te takelen. Nee, dat is dus geen goed teken.
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”We are all chasing ghosts, Kovacs-san. Living as long as we do now, how could we not be.”
Man…. I wanted so bad for this series to be more than it ended up being. I found the first book amazing, the second book still good (but way different), and had hopes that it’d find its stride again in the third book to bring it all home again. It does not. In fact, it’s a super mediocre ending to a series that started out so great.
Kovacs gets spit out again, this time back home on Harlan’s World, resleeved and living out a personal grudge against—well, that’s the question for half of the book, isn’t it? As the reader, we’re not clued in on what Kovacs is up to personally until after things have already kicked off. Sure we’re along on his cyberpunk adventure as he hunts people down, but we don’t know why he’s hunting them down. Somewhere along the way, he gets wrapped up in Quellist politics, and we get entire segments of the book devoted to Harlan’s World political science and we’re treated to lengthy political debates amongst two groups of people that will never see eye to eye.
Also, that ending. Extensive ending spoilers here: I was all geared up for a Kovacs v. Kovacs showdown, but even that conclusion was taken away from me by a trigger-happy Jad. Talk about anticlimactic.
The cast of characters is extensive, way more than needed to exist for this book’s story to be told. The story itself felt really disjointed after Kovacs gets in good with the Quellists, and I hope you like copious amounts of sex, because there’s copious amounts of sex. There’s bits and pieces in here of what I liked so much from the other books, but you have to dig for them amongst the Quellisms and sexytimes.
I don’t know, disappointing ending to something that started out so great. Not a terrible book if you know what you’re getting into and like that sort of thing, but it definitely was a bad note to end the series on.
