Reviews and Comments

This is a hard review. The writing is amazing, as you would expect from Wendig. It's a crazy prediction of what happened during COVID-19, I had to keep reminding myself that it was written before the pandemic. Yet there were a number of things that nagged at me.

First, it really needed editing down. There was so much in this book that many parts came and went without any type a payoff or need to the story. Second, I felt Wendig got some of the details around religion wrong and you could tell it was written by someone that didn't quite understand the subject. Third, the ending was rough. It made the sort of turn that I wasn't expecting, nor did I want. Makes me double check if I want to read the next book.

I enjoyed this. I think Kloos did a good job to not make this just cut-and-paste from the previous books. At times it became..."here we go again", but those were few and far between. I really enjoyed this series.

This was exactly what I thought it would be. I like to grab one or two of these types of books to simply see if the story is worth following. Read the first Reacher book, and a few Vince Flynn books. Neither really stuck, unlike Orphan series from Hurwitz. This was more entertaining than those, but really don't feel a need to continue the series.

Really enjoyed this short story more than I thought I would. It’s not a breakthrough plot, but interesting the whole way through.

This book was really good. A completely different voice for Sanderson, but fun to read. I’m not sure if I like the audiobook’s narrator for this book, although I love Michael Kramer. Excited to see what he has in store next in the Secret Series.

Very well written. Fry does a great job of weaving the crazy stories into something more palpable. It does take a dip about 2/3rds of the way through, but other than that it's pretty good.

Interesting book. There were some really interesting things to look at and stuff to take advantage of but there was more here that I was unsure if I 100% agreed with as well. Liked that is stoked more thoughts than previous reads.

Better than I expected. The newest translation did a fantastic job of keeping my interest. I really wanted more. It feels like Jaws many times where the lack of details is more intense than just telling the reader. Going to look into more of Lem.

This is probably the best novella of the 3. There was a real progress of soul and journey of the main character. Really looking forward to Sanderson’s next entry.

Liked this one as a personal dig into X and how he loves forward as a human not just an assassin. Looking forward to how it moves forward although not super happy about the epilogue and how it implies the direction, feels like a step back in narrative direction.

Really enjoyed this book. Not sure if it’s because I’m in a different place or due to the author taking fan notes, but this opener is significantly better than any of the previous series books. First Empyre was ok, and many of the people are referenced here but this is the book we wanted to read. Pure Sullivan proses, concise and yet descriptive, and loads of fun and heart.

This is 100% pop fiction, but enjoyed every moment of it. Reminded me of how much I enjoyed Redshirts. Well written and fantastically fun.

It tries to funny, really tries…but falls short every time. Only a couple chuckles and nothing was too unexpected. Just so so.

Another great one, really moving. I’m glad I read the novellas in between as this has near zero representation to characters we’ve gone to enjoy from previous books. Good read.