266 reviews for:

Embers of War

Gareth L. Powell

3.8 AVERAGE

tpoisot's review

4.0

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

azzurro22's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous funny mysterious

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

ginnikin's review

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This was quite good. There were a couple of things that should've been caught in editing, but good world-building, characters, and plot.

chickadee2's review

4.0

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The story moved a little slow at first, but got more interesting later. I didn’t really care for any of the characters except maybe the ship. The story is about a ship and crew that are part of an organization to rescue ships in space. The crew goes to rescue a passenger ship that has crashed on a mysterious planet that has several million other ships inside it. They discover the planet contains a massive fleet of ships made by a missing alien race that used to be an organization similar to the crew’s own that would provide safety and stability to the area of the galaxy.

joanne_price's review

3.5

adventurous funny

pyrh's review

3.75

adventurous lighthearted

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

titusfortner's review

3.0

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It took me a little too long to get into the flow of the story. Maybe it's just an issue of jumping between multiple first person narrations in an audiobook format. Once the pacing picked up, I found it enjoyable enough. The characters have potential. I think it's just that the mysterious aliens aren't that interesting to me and that seems to be what the story is pushing toward. I'm unlikely to read book 2.

led's review

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

stacksoftbr's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

csdaley's review

5.0

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Any book where the best character is the ship is a total win in my world.