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lrn22's review against another edition
3.0
It was fine, not as good as the first. I'm not sure I'd read the third one.
jaybull's review against another edition
2.0
I had high hopes for this after the first book, but I gave up halfway through reading it. Lots of datadumping - very tell instead of show. Also, this Takeshita Kovacs lacked the wry humor of the first book. Without the humor it’s just dark and then darker and worst of boring as sin.
roklobster's review against another edition
3.0
April 2021
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This is a weird book. Still not my favorite and the plot really is quite... odd. It's like a layered "...and THEN" sort of thing that does like... carry the momentum of the previous moment, but together makes a weird tapestry. And Kovacs switches sides at least four times? Overall there are interesting elements to this book, but it doesn't quite hum like the first one.
August 2016
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This is not my favorite of the Takeshi Kovacs books. It explores more of the Martian culture, which is interesting, but the plot is somewhat convoluted and not as compelling as the first novel. I'm still intrigued enough by the ideas as a whole to finish it, but yeah, I wish it had been better.
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This is a weird book. Still not my favorite and the plot really is quite... odd. It's like a layered "...and THEN" sort of thing that does like... carry the momentum of the previous moment, but together makes a weird tapestry. And Kovacs switches sides at least four times? Overall there are interesting elements to this book, but it doesn't quite hum like the first one.
August 2016
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This is not my favorite of the Takeshi Kovacs books. It explores more of the Martian culture, which is interesting, but the plot is somewhat convoluted and not as compelling as the first novel. I'm still intrigued enough by the ideas as a whole to finish it, but yeah, I wish it had been better.
katmarhan's review against another edition
4.0
8/10
Violent and gory yet full of mystery and a closer look into who Takeshi Kovacs is. Like [b:Altered Carbon|40445|Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)|Richard K. Morgan|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1387128955s/40445.jpg|2095852], the first Takeshi Kovacs book, there are twists and double-dealing aplenty, but the settings--a non-Earth planet at war and a ship hanging in deep space--are very different from the noir-Earth of the first book. We see Kovacs as leader of a team and yet separate from his team because of who he is. A page-turner that still manages to make the reader think!
Violent and gory yet full of mystery and a closer look into who Takeshi Kovacs is. Like [b:Altered Carbon|40445|Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)|Richard K. Morgan|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1387128955s/40445.jpg|2095852], the first Takeshi Kovacs book, there are twists and double-dealing aplenty, but the settings--a non-Earth planet at war and a ship hanging in deep space--are very different from the noir-Earth of the first book. We see Kovacs as leader of a team and yet separate from his team because of who he is. A page-turner that still manages to make the reader think!
grumpyash91's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.0
chungledown_bim's review against another edition
3.0
A very different book to Altered Carbon. Again, the world building is amazing, again, the prose is a little muddy but better than the first. Maybe this book shouldn’t be held up to the first. Like Kovacs’ sleeve, the genre & tone has changed while retaining the fundamental universe. “But what,” I found myself asking more than once, “is his penis doing right now?” Reader, we shall never know. Way less sex, way more action, way more pages. Same rating. Enjoyable, but not mind-blowing. I’ll probably read the next but not right away.
raffaelhirt's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
mtthwkrl's review against another edition
2.0
How quickly style can turn to crutch, spicy phrases turn into tics, and a streetwise narrator turns into your cranky coworker that keeps coming around to complain to you! I really liked Altered Carbon, but it seems like maybe one was enough. This time around, I can't unhear the way that wildly different characters rely on the same cliches, and the way that a post-biology post-human world opens up space for Morgan to describe human racial/ethnic characteristics in a really creepy colonial pseudo-scientific way. Also, unforgivable for a pulpy novel, really really boring. Boo! I was really expecting to like this one.
teamaker's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0