Trae reviewed Dead Shift by Richard Phillips
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3 stars
This book lacked any meat that the other books contained. It was enjoyable, but only as an action packed shoot'em up. The story of the AI, which in previous novels would have had a much greater role, and been involved in a larger twist, was just a side story and just used to move things around for the next gun battle.
Additionally, this prequel suffers from the issue of introducing things into a world that would have been useful and used in the later books. Where were these things in the original Rho books? Makes it feel out of place.
This book lacked any meat that the other books contained. It was enjoyable, but only as an action packed shoot'em up. The story of the AI, which in previous novels would have had a much greater role, and been involved in a larger twist, was just a side story and just used to move things around for the next gun battle.
Additionally, this prequel suffers from the issue of introducing things into a world that would have been useful and used in the later books. Where were these things in the original Rho books? Makes it feel out of place.