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snoopydoo77's review against another edition
2.0
I started out liked the book better than the first, but after like 25% into the book I was not so sure anymore.
And to be honest even now after finishing it I’m still not sure what my feelings are about the book and the series.
The characters are a lot more in depth this book, more background more understanding to them. Except Peri. Sadly I had a really hard time with Peri. There is something about her that I cannot connect to and or relate to.
Buy I can’t really put my finger on what it is, that I don’t like about her. I hope I figure it out soon. Maybe it is her over confidence that I don’t like. I’m really not sure what it is.
You can find my full review here :
http://snoopydoosbookreviews.com/operator-peri-reed-chronicles-2-kim-harrison/
And to be honest even now after finishing it I’m still not sure what my feelings are about the book and the series.
The characters are a lot more in depth this book, more background more understanding to them. Except Peri. Sadly I had a really hard time with Peri. There is something about her that I cannot connect to and or relate to.
Buy I can’t really put my finger on what it is, that I don’t like about her. I hope I figure it out soon. Maybe it is her over confidence that I don’t like. I’m really not sure what it is.
You can find my full review here :
http://snoopydoosbookreviews.com/operator-peri-reed-chronicles-2-kim-harrison/
kathydavie's review against another edition
4.0
Second in The Peri Reed Chronicles science fiction series and revolving around a drafter yearning to be independent, to remember on her own.
My Take
Oh, that ending…twisted me all up in how I looked back at the story. Talk about terrifying!! Twist and twist and twist again. But it's Bill that is the master of the angles. Harrison does keep things moving with all the running, being caught, escaping, wash, rinse, repeat. How Peri comes up with those angles keeps me wondering too.
I do appreciate that Peri admits to what she misses about her old job. Sure, I suspect I'd miss all that luxe and the excitement as well, and I'm not sure if I'd be so desperate to pay the price to remember. Ya probably have to be there. As for her choices — Bill or a government agency??? Yeah… Especially with that CIA attitude toward its agents.
An underlying issue in this is the medical field and how obtuse they can be when encountering something unexpected, how desperate they are to find a label that they can force to fit.
Cam. Now, Cam intrigues me. Harrison drops hints and tidbits, and I am hoping that she brings him in, in the next installment. I wanna know more about this guy.
I do like that Jack is slowly starting to get that he's a jerk, although I doubt he'll ever stop being as selfish as he is. His attitude will drive you nuts and want to smack him around for a few years.
The setting for the series intrigues me with its rollable phones and the glass pads. I do like the sound of that Mantis as well. Whoo-wheeeee. And, yeah, I'd recommend this one. Harrison does keep me on my toes…
The Story
Bill is scrounging, Peri is hiding, and the CIA is watching in the wings.
All Peri wants is to be left alone. All Bill wants is Peri back under his thumb. All the CIA wants is Peri under their thumb, in a cell, and let out for special ops.
Everyone has their own agenda and only one of them will hold back on how they achieve it.
The Characters
Peri Reed is a drafter, a person with the ability to turn back time for a few seconds. But she can only do so when she dies, usually. After she fled in The Drafter, 1, she opened a coffee shop. Carnac is her cat.
Dr. Silas Denier, a.k.a., Dr. Sley at the Georgia Aquarium, a psychologist and chemist, and Allen Swift had been part of her training team when they were first starting out. I think Summer is a dead agent with whom Silas had been in love.
Jack had been Peri's anchor with for the past three years with Opti. He lied. Now he's her intuition implanted by Silas to keep Peri from going insane.
The coffeeshop is…
…where Peri's been hiding. And where everything is $15.80. Simon and Cam (a stock market analyst) are some of her regulars.
The Arena is…
…actually a run-down neighborhood in Detroit taken over by gangs. LB (his mom's name is Rose), a.k.a., Leon, leads the gang and is a rogue drafter. Fat Man, a.k.a., Lorenzo, is his second-in-command and anchor.
The CIA is…
…obsessed with imprisoning drafters, to use as they want for their World Enumeration Federal Taskforce (WEFT). Steiner is in charge, and all the agents think they know what they're doing *eye roll*. Special Agent Harmony Beam comes on really strong. Allen is a bit of a weasel who now works for the CIA. Other agents include Taylor and Armand.
Opti was…
…a corrupt special ops program busted by Peri in The Drafter. Bill Heddles was/is in charge. Michael Kord is a psychotic drafter. who, for all his smarts, is such a small childish thinker. Latisha is a sniper. Jen is a psychologist and low-level anchor; Ron is another anchor. David, Smith, Tom, Dan, Jillian, and Sean are more agents. Rodney is a doorman. Hammon is a receptionist. Margo is Bill's secretary. Dr. Cavana had been a psychologist with Opti.
Helen Yeomon is the cold-hearted money woman. Annabelle is her young niece, poor thing. Chris sounds like a secretary.
Evocane is the prep drug that will supposedly help drafters keep their memories. Jose and Mark work at the Georgia Aquarium.
The Cover and Title
The cover has a primarily orange background with Peri standing on a flight of stairs leading down, gun in hand. Superimposed on the stairs is a tone-on-tone triangular symbol encircled by two rings. The publicity info and author's name is in a deep brown at the top with the title in white and at an angle just below middle.
The title is all about Bill, for he's The Operator.
My Take
Oh, that ending…twisted me all up in how I looked back at the story. Talk about terrifying!! Twist and twist and twist again. But it's Bill that is the master of the angles. Harrison does keep things moving with all the running, being caught, escaping, wash, rinse, repeat. How Peri comes up with those angles keeps me wondering too.
I do appreciate that Peri admits to what she misses about her old job. Sure, I suspect I'd miss all that luxe and the excitement as well, and I'm not sure if I'd be so desperate to pay the price to remember. Ya probably have to be there. As for her choices — Bill or a government agency??? Yeah… Especially with that CIA attitude toward its agents.
An underlying issue in this is the medical field and how obtuse they can be when encountering something unexpected, how desperate they are to find a label that they can force to fit.
Cam. Now, Cam intrigues me. Harrison drops hints and tidbits, and I am hoping that she brings him in, in the next installment. I wanna know more about this guy.
"Your great plan is to commit a slow and morally comfortable genocide on a new kind of human."Harrison does provide some back history on when Peri, Silas, and Allen were training to be agents. Although it's simply part of the many bits and pieces Harrison keeps hidden. She strings these tidbits out, piece by piece, leaving me wondering what, exactly, is going on.
I do like that Jack is slowly starting to get that he's a jerk, although I doubt he'll ever stop being as selfish as he is. His attitude will drive you nuts and want to smack him around for a few years.
The setting for the series intrigues me with its rollable phones and the glass pads. I do like the sound of that Mantis as well. Whoo-wheeeee. And, yeah, I'd recommend this one. Harrison does keep me on my toes…
The Story
Bill is scrounging, Peri is hiding, and the CIA is watching in the wings.
All Peri wants is to be left alone. All Bill wants is Peri back under his thumb. All the CIA wants is Peri under their thumb, in a cell, and let out for special ops.
Everyone has their own agenda and only one of them will hold back on how they achieve it.
The Characters
Peri Reed is a drafter, a person with the ability to turn back time for a few seconds. But she can only do so when she dies, usually. After she fled in The Drafter, 1, she opened a coffee shop. Carnac is her cat.
Dr. Silas Denier, a.k.a., Dr. Sley at the Georgia Aquarium, a psychologist and chemist, and Allen Swift had been part of her training team when they were first starting out. I think Summer is a dead agent with whom Silas had been in love.
Jack had been Peri's anchor with for the past three years with Opti. He lied. Now he's her intuition implanted by Silas to keep Peri from going insane.
The coffeeshop is…
…where Peri's been hiding. And where everything is $15.80. Simon and Cam (a stock market analyst) are some of her regulars.
The Arena is…
…actually a run-down neighborhood in Detroit taken over by gangs. LB (his mom's name is Rose), a.k.a., Leon, leads the gang and is a rogue drafter. Fat Man, a.k.a., Lorenzo, is his second-in-command and anchor.
The CIA is…
…obsessed with imprisoning drafters, to use as they want for their World Enumeration Federal Taskforce (WEFT). Steiner is in charge, and all the agents think they know what they're doing *eye roll*. Special Agent Harmony Beam comes on really strong. Allen is a bit of a weasel who now works for the CIA. Other agents include Taylor and Armand.
Opti was…
…a corrupt special ops program busted by Peri in The Drafter. Bill Heddles was/is in charge. Michael Kord is a psychotic drafter. who, for all his smarts, is such a small childish thinker. Latisha is a sniper. Jen is a psychologist and low-level anchor; Ron is another anchor. David, Smith, Tom, Dan, Jillian, and Sean are more agents. Rodney is a doorman. Hammon is a receptionist. Margo is Bill's secretary. Dr. Cavana had been a psychologist with Opti.
Helen Yeomon is the cold-hearted money woman. Annabelle is her young niece, poor thing. Chris sounds like a secretary.
Evocane is the prep drug that will supposedly help drafters keep their memories. Jose and Mark work at the Georgia Aquarium.
The Cover and Title
The cover has a primarily orange background with Peri standing on a flight of stairs leading down, gun in hand. Superimposed on the stairs is a tone-on-tone triangular symbol encircled by two rings. The publicity info and author's name is in a deep brown at the top with the title in white and at an angle just below middle.
The title is all about Bill, for he's The Operator.
yodamom's review against another edition
2.0
So disappointing.
I am going to be overusing the word trapped. You have been warned.
Peri the time shifter who can’t seem to stay out of trap after trap after trap. It was relentless, she was always on the edge of being trapped or trapped by her stupid actions. Her coworkers, lovers, even her cat trapped.
I tried hard to like this series, out of devotion to the author and her past work. I can’t, it is too random to unfocused with no direction. Peri is in the same situation she was in the beginning of the series at the end of book 2. They all ran around in circles, getting caught, killing, promising revenge, only to end up back at the beginning ? The people have changed some but this character is stuck in this endless loop of trapped, trapped, trapped. It was frustraiting, there was never enough time to connect with her or the other characters. There was an odd out of place character, Cam that didn’t fit into he sorry at all. Peri, is unlikable, one dimensional and uninteresting. All of them are really, we don’t get to know them only see them for a fraction of a second while they are trapped, being trapped, trying to get un-trapped. The theme of the story, trapped.
I’m done, this is the last book in this series I will read. I am a fan of Ms. Harrison’s previous series so I gave this one more effort than I normally would have.
I am going to be overusing the word trapped. You have been warned.
Peri the time shifter who can’t seem to stay out of trap after trap after trap. It was relentless, she was always on the edge of being trapped or trapped by her stupid actions. Her coworkers, lovers, even her cat trapped.
I tried hard to like this series, out of devotion to the author and her past work. I can’t, it is too random to unfocused with no direction. Peri is in the same situation she was in the beginning of the series at the end of book 2. They all ran around in circles, getting caught, killing, promising revenge, only to end up back at the beginning ? The people have changed some but this character is stuck in this endless loop of trapped, trapped, trapped. It was frustraiting, there was never enough time to connect with her or the other characters. There was an odd out of place character, Cam that didn’t fit into he sorry at all. Peri, is unlikable, one dimensional and uninteresting. All of them are really, we don’t get to know them only see them for a fraction of a second while they are trapped, being trapped, trying to get un-trapped. The theme of the story, trapped.
I’m done, this is the last book in this series I will read. I am a fan of Ms. Harrison’s previous series so I gave this one more effort than I normally would have.
amybraunauthor's review against another edition
4.0
Really liked this sequel for Kim Harrison's new series. While it could be read as a standalone, as with most sequels, this is better enjoyed if you have a little more background into the series and the characters. The story is fun and exciting, with way more action scenes, new perspectives, and a lot more tension to build on a great novel. I really liked the "drug" aspect of the story. It added a lot of tension and drama to the series and made Peri's turmoil all the more dramatic. Peri herself continues to be a strong woman trying to ease away from the lies her former employers held over her, and I really liked watching her fight against the addiction and her enemies, while still being vulnerable when things became too much for her. I wanted a little more Silas (because I love that guy), but it was interesting to witness things from the perspectives of both Bill and Jack. More than that, I LOVED the new character of Harmony and would happily want to read more about her! The action scenes were intense and visceral, and I honestly didn't know how it was going to end. I'm hoping there will be more books, because I really enjoy this action-packed series of time travel and tension!
joeyz's review against another edition
I was lucky enough to be chosen to receive an advance copy. Once I started it, I could barely put it down. The continuing adventures, or misadventures of Peri, and those who surround her was excellent. We learn so much more of the story, about Peri, and about who she really wants to be. Some new faces and friends, and some old ones. Another excellent tale set in a Future Detroit that is all to real to someone living nearby. Kim Harrison impresses me once again with her storytelling. Going to have to give my friend who introduced me to her another hug. :)
scubacat's review against another edition
1.0
I'm so done with this series. So much potential from such a great writer, but these books are repetitive and boring. I disliked the first book in this series and absolutely hated this one. It was a slog to finish and I should have just quit after the first 50 pages. We're parting ways for good.
malreynolds111's review against another edition
3.0
I was disappointed with the ending of this book. I felt that we didn't really resolve the issues and there is no word of another book to continue the series.
claire_loves_books's review against another edition
2.0
I didn't really enjoy the Drafter that much but I'd enjoyed the Hollows series so I thought I'd give this series another go but I didn't like this one either. I hadn't re-read the Drafter so I found myself confused about all the interweaving plots and betrayals again. No-one really had any straightforward aim that was evident so they all seemed to be doing things for the sake of it and it felt a bit pointless.
Despite the fact that Peri is supposed to be a great agent she doesn't really seem to do that well in this book, again and again people get one over her and it felt repetitive.
I wasn't invested in any of the characters either, everybody seems a bit unpleasant and Peri is all over the place- I know she's missing huge chunks of her past and it's making her paranoid but I just couldn't like her.
Without a plot or characters that I could invest in I got bored reading and really had to force myself to carry on.
The addiction plot didn't feel that accurate either.
Despite the fact that Peri is supposed to be a great agent she doesn't really seem to do that well in this book, again and again people get one over her and it felt repetitive.
I wasn't invested in any of the characters either, everybody seems a bit unpleasant and Peri is all over the place- I know she's missing huge chunks of her past and it's making her paranoid but I just couldn't like her.
Without a plot or characters that I could invest in I got bored reading and really had to force myself to carry on.
The addiction plot didn't feel that accurate either.
Spoiler
I don't think there's any drug that gets you addicted after one go- your body just doesn't adapt that quickly, there's no way to anticipate how someone will metabolise a drug so needing more after exactly 24 hours seemed unrealistic (if there'd been a bit more leeway I might have believed it), and even if Peri did get physically addicted after one shot she then also immediately became psychologically addicted, it felt totally unlikely.scubacat's review
1.0
I'm so done with this series. So much potential from such a great writer, but these books are repetitive and boring. I disliked the first book in this series and absolutely hated this one. It was a slog to finish and I should have just quit after the first 50 pages. We're parting ways for good.