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bfpierce's review against another edition
3.0
Loved Altered Carbon but really didn't get into this one. Doesn't flow as well or have the same feel
rajue's review against another edition
5.0
Marsianische Archäologie und anderes geiles Zeug! Morgan ist der Beste!
emnii's review against another edition
4.0
I have a lot of love for Altered Carbon, and Broken Angels doesn't disappoint.
mykulldee's review against another edition
3.0
Slower start than Altered Carbon. It moves away from the detective/murder mystery motif and is more a general adventure. Reminds me of an Indiana Jones adventure somewhat. It's picked up after the first 100 pages.
branch_c's review against another edition
3.0
Extremely polished writing and some very cool SF speculations, as I remember from Morgan's earlier book, Altered Carbon.
Kovacs is a great POV character, written clearly enough that you think you know him well, yet he can still surprise you by doing something that's unexpected, while, on reflection, logical.
I could have done without quite so much of the graphic violence and other stuff that added to the overall "grittiness" of the story. Well-written though they were, I enjoyed those scenes less than the rest of the book.
Overall, enjoyable for the smart concepts and smooth writing; at some point I could be in the mood for more from Morgan.
Kovacs is a great POV character, written clearly enough that you think you know him well, yet he can still surprise you by doing something that's unexpected, while, on reflection, logical.
I could have done without quite so much of the graphic violence and other stuff that added to the overall "grittiness" of the story. Well-written though they were, I enjoyed those scenes less than the rest of the book.
Overall, enjoyable for the smart concepts and smooth writing; at some point I could be in the mood for more from Morgan.
zach8vb's review against another edition
5.0
A little slow to start, but all in all another excellent romp with Takeshi Kovacs.
aodj's review
3.0
This is a very different book than Altered Carbon. AC is focused on the human intrigue and puzzles around solving a murder-mystery. Broken Angels however is set against a very different canvas with human intrigue overlaid on top of the ongoing war and history of the Martians.
I’m not sure it does a great job of tying all of those threads into a coherent whole, and leaves a lot of plot devices under developed and dangling.
I did enjoy it but I think I enjoyed AC more.
I’m not sure it does a great job of tying all of those threads into a coherent whole, and leaves a lot of plot devices under developed and dangling.
I did enjoy it but I think I enjoyed AC more.
rocketiza's review against another edition
4.0
I like this far more than the first Kovacs novel, whether from the grander scale or maybe just better story telling. There is a part that almost derailed me though (if you read this book, you're going to immediately know what part), but he brought it back around for the end game.
exile's review against another edition
4.0
If you came into this thinking "yay, more like Altered Carbon"... well not really. This one is set in a war zone and isn't a detective story. It's not BAD, it's just a completely different story starring the same character.
Some stories take place near a war, and that's the reason for the plot; this one the war is sort of omnipresent and a reminder that our human nature is one of destruction, not discovery.
It *is* hard SciFi however, and my geek for stuff like that is responsible for the fourth star. That and the very "Shadowrun" sort of build-a-team-bankrolled-by-mr-johnson-and-secure-the-hypertech-maguffin plot. Otherwise it's a solid 3-star middle-of-the-road SciFi story.
Some stories take place near a war, and that's the reason for the plot; this one the war is sort of omnipresent and a reminder that our human nature is one of destruction, not discovery.
It *is* hard SciFi however, and my geek for stuff like that is responsible for the fourth star. That and the very "Shadowrun" sort of build-a-team-bankrolled-by-mr-johnson-and-secure-the-hypertech-maguffin plot. Otherwise it's a solid 3-star middle-of-the-road SciFi story.