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3.39 AVERAGE
3.39 AVERAGE
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I loved Cyberpunk2077 but this book was so bad. The amount of misogynistic writing. incredible. The plot was very convoluted, the ending very unsatisfying and underwhelming, none of the characters were likeable, it hit very few themes of what makes the cyberpunk genre so interesting to me, so the only reason i gave it this rating at all was because of cherami leigh doing an out of this world job reading the shit out of this… shit.
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
"Then it hit him. He couldn't imagine any other place he ought to be. Couldn't picture any other time or place where he'd fit."
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
"Cyberpunk 2077: Bez przypadku" to literacka podróż do przyszłości, gdzie granica między człowiekiem a technologią staje się coraz bardziej rozmyta. Rafał Kosik, znany z doskonałego wyczucia narracji i umiejętności tworzenia złożonych światów, tym razem zabiera czytelników do Night City – miejsca, które gracze i fani serii Cyberpunk doskonale rozpoznają. Książka, osadzona w uniwersum gry Cyberpunk 2077 stworzonej przez CD Project RED, oferuje ciekawą historię w dobrze znanym świecie przyszłości, tym razem opowiedzianej przez pryzmat nowej “przypadkowej” ekipy.
Fabuła koncentruje się wokół szóstki nieudaczników, zmuszonych do współpracy w celu przeprowadzenia niemożliwego napadu. Ich historie są równie różnorodne, co fascynujące – od byłego żołnierza po tancerkę z nocnego klubu. To mieszanka, która gwarantuje, że każdy czytelnik znajdzie postać, z którą będzie mógł się utożsamić lub którą po prostu polubi. Kosik z umiejętnością przedstawia ich rozwój, nie zapominając o licznych zwrotach akcji, które trzymają w napięciu do samego końca.
Książka nie tylko czerpie z bogatego uniwersum gry, ale też rozszerza je, dodając własne elementy i nowe wątki. Przy tym wszystkim autor nie zapomina o istotnych problemach współczesności, takich jak zagrożenia płynące ze strony sztucznej inteligencji czy ucieczka w wirtualne światy. Choć książka z pewnością najbardziej spodoba się fanom gry, warto podkreślić, że Kosik stworzył dzieło przystępne również dla tych, którzy z Cyberpunkiem 2077 nie mieli wcześniej do czynienia. Jego narracja jest na tyle jasna i wciągająca, że nawet osoby nieznające gry będą mogły bez problemu zanurzyć się w opowieść i cieszyć się nią w pełni.
Jednak nie zabraknie ode mnie słów krytyki. Tempo narracji jest bardzo nierówne, z jednej strony mamy zaskakująco szybkie zwroty akcji i czasami ciężko połapać się co się właśnie stało aby przejść do pseudofilozoficznych dłużyzn na kilkanaście stron. Mimo, że jest to ciekawe rozwinięcie świata gry/komiksów to jest wątkiem zupełnie niepotrzebnym, powstałym na fali popularności świata rozbudowanego przez komiksy, a z premierą wydania wyprzedającą dodatek (Phantom Liberty) o niecałe dwa miesiące aby podnieść hype na nową historię zafundowana przez CD Project RED.
Książka Rafała Kosika to emocjonująca, pełna akcji opowieść, która z pewnością znajdzie swoje miejsce w sercach fanów Cyberpunka, jak i tych, którzy dopiero co zaczynają swoją przygodę z tym fascynującym uniwersum. Nie jest to szczyt literatury sf ale bardzo przyjemny dodatek do uniwersum CP2077.
Przyjemność 3,2/5
Styl: 3,5/5
Historia: 3,4/5
Ocena 3,36/5
Fabuła koncentruje się wokół szóstki nieudaczników, zmuszonych do współpracy w celu przeprowadzenia niemożliwego napadu. Ich historie są równie różnorodne, co fascynujące – od byłego żołnierza po tancerkę z nocnego klubu. To mieszanka, która gwarantuje, że każdy czytelnik znajdzie postać, z którą będzie mógł się utożsamić lub którą po prostu polubi. Kosik z umiejętnością przedstawia ich rozwój, nie zapominając o licznych zwrotach akcji, które trzymają w napięciu do samego końca.
Książka nie tylko czerpie z bogatego uniwersum gry, ale też rozszerza je, dodając własne elementy i nowe wątki. Przy tym wszystkim autor nie zapomina o istotnych problemach współczesności, takich jak zagrożenia płynące ze strony sztucznej inteligencji czy ucieczka w wirtualne światy. Choć książka z pewnością najbardziej spodoba się fanom gry, warto podkreślić, że Kosik stworzył dzieło przystępne również dla tych, którzy z Cyberpunkiem 2077 nie mieli wcześniej do czynienia. Jego narracja jest na tyle jasna i wciągająca, że nawet osoby nieznające gry będą mogły bez problemu zanurzyć się w opowieść i cieszyć się nią w pełni.
Jednak nie zabraknie ode mnie słów krytyki. Tempo narracji jest bardzo nierówne, z jednej strony mamy zaskakująco szybkie zwroty akcji i czasami ciężko połapać się co się właśnie stało aby przejść do pseudofilozoficznych dłużyzn na kilkanaście stron. Mimo, że jest to ciekawe rozwinięcie świata gry/komiksów to jest wątkiem zupełnie niepotrzebnym, powstałym na fali popularności świata rozbudowanego przez komiksy, a z premierą wydania wyprzedającą dodatek (Phantom Liberty) o niecałe dwa miesiące aby podnieść hype na nową historię zafundowana przez CD Project RED.
Książka Rafała Kosika to emocjonująca, pełna akcji opowieść, która z pewnością znajdzie swoje miejsce w sercach fanów Cyberpunka, jak i tych, którzy dopiero co zaczynają swoją przygodę z tym fascynującym uniwersum. Nie jest to szczyt literatury sf ale bardzo przyjemny dodatek do uniwersum CP2077.
Przyjemność 3,2/5
Styl: 3,5/5
Historia: 3,4/5
Ocena 3,36/5
adventurous
emotional
tense
medium-paced
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
There are a few things I want to mention right off the bat to get them out of the way. First, I love this fucking cover, it's what drew me into reading the synopsis at the bookstore. And NO the cover does not have anything at all to do with this fucking book. Second, the 1.75 stars I gave this book was GENEROUS. I have been struggling with this one for over a week. I disliked it so much that I read other books while reading this one. Which is not something I generally do with my reading life. I am a one book at a time girly. A monogamous reader if you will. But I got to a point where I just couldn't anymore with this one. I would read a chapter a day while reading my three shortest items on my TBR. But then I hit a point where I just had to buckle down and finish this one. I plan on reading another translated work next in the hopes that it will do well when placed next to this one.
What is this book about? Great question, I would love to tell you. If I knew. The premise is that a ragtag group is forced to work together for a heist, one job, but then they're forced to work together again and again. They run up on different problems they have to face together. It really almost sounded like a cyberpunk version of Leverage to me. (Or do I just love comparing things to Leverage? Who's to say?) And this was just bad. It's poorly written and it struggles to identify what kind of story it's trying to tell. The author will switch POVs throughout a page, literally from paragraph to paragraph, which makes it feel so jumpy and it also makes it nearly impossible to follow at times. Not to mention the blatant misogyny in the whole construction of this novel. I know people will want to jump in to say that it's just the way the world would be if the story actually played out in the real world. Okay, but the female characters of this story and how they're displayed for the reader (yes, displayed, not portrayed, because that's what the author fucking does here) is so over the top misogynistic. They are characters who are so fucking flat but let's just give them a tiny plot as a care taker or a tiny plot as some icy bitch who is supposed to be powerful but isn't actually. While the men in the story have characters arcs about revenge (and questions about revenge and who really gets hurt) or about trying to get ahead in a world that will do everything it can to take and take and take or about what can happen when you lose yourself to the distractions placed in front of you. These men are given such strong plots and character developments while the women are just here because it would be fucking weird for there to be a world without them. Or, no wait, they're also there to be fucked or ogled.
I think there was potential to write a good story about a group of misfits who are all pulled together for a job, but who keep getting dragged back into more and more shit. All with an overarching plot of conspiracy and with a futuristic SciFi setting. But what I spent 8 fucking days reading was not it.
What is this book about? Great question, I would love to tell you. If I knew. The premise is that a ragtag group is forced to work together for a heist, one job, but then they're forced to work together again and again. They run up on different problems they have to face together. It really almost sounded like a cyberpunk version of Leverage to me. (Or do I just love comparing things to Leverage? Who's to say?) And this was just bad. It's poorly written and it struggles to identify what kind of story it's trying to tell. The author will switch POVs throughout a page, literally from paragraph to paragraph, which makes it feel so jumpy and it also makes it nearly impossible to follow at times. Not to mention the blatant misogyny in the whole construction of this novel. I know people will want to jump in to say that it's just the way the world would be if the story actually played out in the real world. Okay, but the female characters of this story and how they're displayed for the reader (yes, displayed, not portrayed, because that's what the author fucking does here) is so over the top misogynistic. They are characters who are so fucking flat but let's just give them a tiny plot as a care taker or a tiny plot as some icy bitch who is supposed to be powerful but isn't actually. While the men in the story have characters arcs about revenge (and questions about revenge and who really gets hurt) or about trying to get ahead in a world that will do everything it can to take and take and take or about what can happen when you lose yourself to the distractions placed in front of you. These men are given such strong plots and character developments while the women are just here because it would be fucking weird for there to be a world without them. Or, no wait, they're also there to be fucked or ogled.
I think there was potential to write a good story about a group of misfits who are all pulled together for a job, but who keep getting dragged back into more and more shit. All with an overarching plot of conspiracy and with a futuristic SciFi setting. But what I spent 8 fucking days reading was not it.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
As a Cyberpunk 2077 tie-in, it's a very good book. You recognize the corporations, the locations, the gangs, and even one of the (side) characters!
But judging the story on it's own, I'm not as impressed. One of the biggest flaws was the fragmented story telling. At times it felt like the point of view switched every page, and often not even to one of the main cast, but to some side character doing something (albeit related to the main story, but still). I think this resulted in me not really caring about what was happening to the characters, as I never really spent enough time in one stretch of time.
In the last 75 or so pages the mystery that was fuelling the plot started getting interesting, but as I didn't feel that much for the characters, the answer to it fell a bit short. It's not all bad, but for me it was too fragmented and I was not emotionally invested enough to get enough of a payout from the conclusion. If you want more of Night City and Cyberpunk 2077 it can be worth a read, but maybe not otherwise.
But judging the story on it's own, I'm not as impressed. One of the biggest flaws was the fragmented story telling. At times it felt like the point of view switched every page, and often not even to one of the main cast, but to some side character doing something (albeit related to the main story, but still). I think this resulted in me not really caring about what was happening to the characters, as I never really spent enough time in one stretch of time.
In the last 75 or so pages the mystery that was fuelling the plot started getting interesting, but as I didn't feel that much for the characters, the answer to it fell a bit short. It's not all bad, but for me it was too fragmented and I was not emotionally invested enough to get enough of a payout from the conclusion. If you want more of Night City and Cyberpunk 2077 it can be worth a read, but maybe not otherwise.
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
DUM DUM FUCKS?!?!
I have extremely mixed feelings! I was really invested in two characters (corpo nympho would die just to feel something, and hacker whose only goal is to lose his body) but the others were kind of boilerplate.
It was a really cool dive into the world of Cyberpunk and the cameos were sick, but I don’t think it’s plausible to read this without having played the game, which is unfortunate.
It’s also written in this scattered vignette style that is sort of hard to follow. But it maintains the tense and hopeless struggle that the game embodies and I liked the ending a lot. Plus, CHERAMI LEIGH??!! HELLO?!?!!!
I have extremely mixed feelings! I was really invested in two characters (corpo nympho would die just to feel something, and hacker whose only goal is to lose his body) but the others were kind of boilerplate.
It was a really cool dive into the world of Cyberpunk and the cameos were sick, but I don’t think it’s plausible to read this without having played the game, which is unfortunate.
It’s also written in this scattered vignette style that is sort of hard to follow. But it maintains the tense and hopeless struggle that the game embodies and I liked the ending a lot. Plus, CHERAMI LEIGH??!! HELLO?!?!!!
adventurous
dark
fast-paced