This book was way too much of a boy fantasy. The world was interesting, and the politics of the situations was very well done. The main character was just overpowered, over-cocky, and too much of a boyhood fantasy for me to really enjoy the book for its good qualities. I don’t think I’ll continue this series unless I need something really simple and predictable.
This is the first in a long series of book updates that I’ve been neglecting since March, sorry for this block, but I want to keep them separate for tracking purposes
I thought this book was interesting, and the magic systems were pretty neat. The big problems I had with it was a lot of ex-machina with things working out too perfectly in many circumstances. The love parts of the book were a bit absurd as well.
I really liked this book. It had a lot less angst than the previous two. There was also a lot of resolution to the stories, as opposed to open endedness from the first two in the series. There was a bit of a vague ending with the final bad guy, but it might be more clear for me exactly what was going on if I were to re-read it a time or two. I’m not going to write more as to not spoil it.
This book was very light, and the story itself wasn’t that involved. The major concept of the book ‘the practice effect’ was fun to think about.
Stephanie had some really good points in the discussion, mainly that any civilization that has such a strong value of man-hours would have incredibly large families. They would also have spread out and settled pretty much all the land in order to have the most number of people possible.
I thought that there wasn’t nearly enough sharing and offering of services to keep tools practiced.
The discussion was really great and the food was taken pretty well (it disappeared pretty quickly). I made some of the Vegetable Kofta, which was a lot more involved from the start than I was expecting. The prep that the teaching chef had done was a good deal of the time that was needed, even if it wasn’t the skill part of the cooking.
I’m really enjoying this series. It’s reading level and story complexity is clearly for a much younger group, but I still really like it. The book has an amazing mix of humor, magic, and light science. The political environment, and the people in charge being foiled over and over is written so well.
This book was great. The second book was good as well.
The story is really interesting in that the augmented reality is helping people become more potent as individuals. They can be good or bad, but they become more potent. They can also choose to be less involved in things that they do, or more involved. The whole thing being run by a millionaire game developer was pretty cool as well.
This was a fascinating book. The duplicity of the law was made starkly clear, with a decent backstory to how that duplicity came about in such contrast. The biggest thing I don’t like about the book is that is says nothing about what can be done.
This was a fantastic book, and I’m really glad to see some characters from the original Mistborn series coming back into story. The action was just as good, although there were some points that didn’t flow terribly well, mostly for setup in the next parts of the story. I also thought that it was interesting how the twist at the end played out. The cliffhanger at the end was also interesting, and small enough of a cliffhanger that I’m not upset about it and still looking forward to the third book in the second Mistborn series.
This was set in the same universe as Windup Girl, but a little earlier and in the Southern US. The book was a lot lighter hearted than the Windup Girl with a nicer ending by far. I also don’t think it made me think nearly as hard. The themes were underdogs vs. big bad company and not too much else mixed in.
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