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spitzig's review
2.0
Awful. Crappy Gibson-clone. Don't know why I picked this book up. I considered not finishing it.
The book was overly dramatic. I read some of this to my unborn son(my wife thinks it will be good for him/her to hear my voice. Reading it aloud made it sound worse. My wife didn't like listening to it-she thought it was boring.
The characters were not paper thin, at least. But, I didn't care about any of them.
There were SF points that came out of nowhere like Deus Ex Machinas.
I can't think of any SF thing that was original, except maybe the steel eating virus.
The way he tried to make AIs funny was annoying.
Maybe I should give this one star.
The book was overly dramatic. I read some of this to my unborn son(my wife thinks it will be good for him/her to hear my voice. Reading it aloud made it sound worse. My wife didn't like listening to it-she thought it was boring.
The characters were not paper thin, at least. But, I didn't care about any of them.
There were SF points that came out of nowhere like Deus Ex Machinas.
I can't think of any SF thing that was original, except maybe the steel eating virus.
The way he tried to make AIs funny was annoying.
Maybe I should give this one star.
skttrbrn's review
3.0
The style of this book gets in the way of its concepts and the narrative does not have enough focus to be truly compelling. Instead, the author opts for gratuitous sex scenes that do little to develop the characters and an unsatisfactory ending with a number of characters unaccounted for. All in all, this is a somewhat fun and easy read, but far from a high point for the genre.
xdroot's review
5.0
a political kidnapping gone wrong, a washed-out dreadlocked white musician (an early shadow of ashraf bey?), paris about to be overrun by the fourth reich, a sexy but bloodthirsty female samurai ballerina, a ferro-eating viral nanite, a mad sexually-deviant self-proclaimed messiah form the framework of a story of lost innocence and the blinding light of self-knowledge.
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