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pjonsson's review
2.0
The books in this series has gone down a lot in terms entertainment value for me. I really liked the first series, The Kurtherian Gambit, where the books got almost entirely 5 out of 5 star ratings. This series, The Kurtherian End Game, started out quite okay but lately it’s really gone down and the last two books is 2 out of 5 stars as far as I am concerned.
I really liked the urban fantasy / supernatural theme in the first series. Bethany Anne was much more at the center of the stage and she really was kick-ass. Her adversaries was either real criminals or dumbass government operatives and bureaucrats.
In the second series the science fiction theme took over more and more and Bettany Anne has been less and less in the center of things. Also, the books have been much more fragmented with a lot of them focusing on various side stories. This book for instance branches out on one of these annoying side stories for a good chunk of the book.
What is worse is that, in my opinion, the author is going more and more woke. It’s more and more about big bad corporations always screwing the “little guy”. In this, the latest, book he is continuing this trend. Before he kept a certain distance to real world politics but in this book he is directly mentioning terms like “left” and “right” and I’m sure you can guess which side is the “bad” one. I don’t need that Hollywood style crap in my books.
I was hoping for some good old fashioned ass-kicking, especially Kurtherian ass, to take place at the end of the book. There is indeed some of that but then it just fizzles out in a huge cliffhanger. What the f…?
I have to say that I was rather disappointed after having finished this book. I’m going to read the series to the end but, honestly, I really hope the next book is the last one.
I really liked the urban fantasy / supernatural theme in the first series. Bethany Anne was much more at the center of the stage and she really was kick-ass. Her adversaries was either real criminals or dumbass government operatives and bureaucrats.
In the second series the science fiction theme took over more and more and Bettany Anne has been less and less in the center of things. Also, the books have been much more fragmented with a lot of them focusing on various side stories. This book for instance branches out on one of these annoying side stories for a good chunk of the book.
What is worse is that, in my opinion, the author is going more and more woke. It’s more and more about big bad corporations always screwing the “little guy”. In this, the latest, book he is continuing this trend. Before he kept a certain distance to real world politics but in this book he is directly mentioning terms like “left” and “right” and I’m sure you can guess which side is the “bad” one. I don’t need that Hollywood style crap in my books.
I was hoping for some good old fashioned ass-kicking, especially Kurtherian ass, to take place at the end of the book. There is indeed some of that but then it just fizzles out in a huge cliffhanger. What the f…?
I have to say that I was rather disappointed after having finished this book. I’m going to read the series to the end but, honestly, I really hope the next book is the last one.
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