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Match Game by Craig Alanson

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theadorek9's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

becksthewreck's review against another edition

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adventurous medium-paced

3.5

bookishactor's review against another edition

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adventurous funny mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

Another great ExForce book! There were a couple of continuity/character knowledge issues…or maybe I wasn’t paying close enough attention and I’m just as absent-minded as Skippy…I don’t know, but overall I really enjoyed it, and the ending was amazing!

rjgillmor's review against another edition

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adventurous lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

🎧 - Another great addition

kharliah's review against another edition

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4.0

I enjoyed the book but I'm glad we're so close to the end of the series.

I'm glad the plot structure was different to the usual "we have to do x, we screwed up, we miraculously pulled this one off yay!".

However I'm really getting over the constant repeated descriptions and overall conversations. I can't tell you how many times I've heard the following:

Absent minded beer can, dumb dumb, filthy monkey, ignorant monkey, that's my story and I'm sticking to it, Skippy you arse, *Joe interrupting Skippy while Skippy is trying to give him vital information*, *Skippy embarrassing Joe by telling the crew about Joe's shower routines*, Skippy not knowing obscure references that Joe mentions, despite Skippy having earth's entire history memorised and the fastest mind in the universe.

There are a few others I've forgotten but there are 250k words in the English dictionary, surely some can be utlisied to vary the descriptions.

trivial_reads's review against another edition

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4.0

I highly recommend this series, and if you haven’t experienced it yet, go back to book one and start there. This series is highly entertaining and contains Easter eggs in every book that references pop culture in science fiction throughout in a very smooth way. The last chapter of this book sets up the final book of the series beautifully. I am kind of both really excited and dreading reading it!