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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The only downside to this book for me was that there wasn't more of it. Another killer good novel by
Richard K. Morgan. If you enjoyed his other works, you'll like this too!
Richard K. Morgan. If you enjoyed his other works, you'll like this too!
As usual with Morgan, rippling, muscled, sometimes elegant prose that, like the main character, fairly oozes testosterone. Not a lot of substance, but enjoyable in much the same way and for many of the same reasons bringing home a rough man from the other side of town can be enjoyable. 4 Vac Star pistols out of 5.
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
If you liked the Altered Carbon series then you'll like Thin Air.
Most of the novel is pretty great, with bloody future tech-fueled violence and a gritty plot set against the backdrop of a well-realized cyberpunk Martian dystopia.
However, after a few hundred pages, Thin Air's flaws started to drag it down a bit.
First, there are a lot of side characters. After a while, they all start to blend together. A little more description or distinction between the characters would've helped with this.
Second: some of the feats the protagonist pulls off start to become unbelievable. More than once, Veil is in a room full of bad guys and manages to take them all out. What are they all doing while he's cutting them down one by one, standing around with a bowl of popcorn? It gets so ridiculous he even lampshades a bit, remarking in one scene: "Wow, I'm so lucky." This is before his luck is even more ridiculous in the final showdown. Speaking of...
Finally, the end was a bit anticlimactic, especially when compared to several other action scenes. The novel goes out with a bang, but when other fight scenes have explosions, that final bang could've used a little more dynamite. It's also the worse offender of henchmen-just-standing-around syndrome that plagues this entire novel.
Flaws aside, Thin Air scratched that cyber-gun blasting, government database-hacking, future noir itch.
Most of the novel is pretty great, with bloody future tech-fueled violence and a gritty plot set against the backdrop of a well-realized cyberpunk Martian dystopia.
However, after a few hundred pages, Thin Air's flaws started to drag it down a bit.
First, there are a lot of side characters. After a while, they all start to blend together. A little more description or distinction between the characters would've helped with this.
Second: some of the feats the protagonist pulls off start to become unbelievable. More than once, Veil is in a room full of bad guys and manages to take them all out. What are they all doing while he's cutting them down one by one, standing around with a bowl of popcorn? It gets so ridiculous he even lampshades a bit, remarking in one scene: "Wow, I'm so lucky." This is before his luck is even more ridiculous in the final showdown. Speaking of...
Finally, the end was a bit anticlimactic, especially when compared to several other action scenes. The novel goes out with a bang, but when other fight scenes have explosions, that final bang could've used a little more dynamite. It's also the worse offender of henchmen-just-standing-around syndrome that plagues this entire novel.
Flaws aside, Thin Air scratched that cyber-gun blasting, government database-hacking, future noir itch.
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
interesting enough read, very gritty and noir. a little too pulpy. way, WAY too horny
adventurous
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Sur Mars, un homme du nom de Pavel Torres a disparu, après avoir gagné la loterie pour retourne sur Terre. Alors qu’un audit est lancé pour comprendre ce qu’il se passe, Hakan Veil, ancien Overrider (un homme de main boosté ++), est appelé par la police de Bradburry (oui, c’est un super clin d’œil) pour servir de garde du corps à Madison Madekwe, une des enquêtrices envoyée sur la planète. Mais elle disparait, et Veil doit aller péter des gueules (plus ou moins), et révéler le complot autour de la disparition de Torres.
Ding ding ding, c’est l’heure de fangirler une fois de plus sur Richad Morgan et son univers techno-bio-cyberpunk tant adoré par votre booktubeuse préférée. Très proche d’Altered Carbon dans son écriture et ses thèmes (entre transhumanisme et thriller haletant), j’ai juste adoré ce livre au rythme effréné. Du grand Morgan, où on balance entre complots politiques, combats ultra violents et calibrés, et scènes hot mais jamais vulgaires. Le personnage est une sorte de Takeshi Kovacs désabusé (son surnom, Hak, me fait beaucoup penser à Tak), coincé sur Mars, où il passe le plus clair de son temps en cryo, et le reste du temps, embauché comme l’agent sur-entrainé et modifié génétiquement qu’il est.
Un livre qui se dévore, tellement on a envie de révéler le mystère de fin. Des twists intelligents à tous les chapitres, des personnages attachants (j’ai adoré Milton par exemple), un hard-boiled/noir/thriller qui plaira à tous les fans du genre.
Ding ding ding, c’est l’heure de fangirler une fois de plus sur Richad Morgan et son univers techno-bio-cyberpunk tant adoré par votre booktubeuse préférée. Très proche d’Altered Carbon dans son écriture et ses thèmes (entre transhumanisme et thriller haletant), j’ai juste adoré ce livre au rythme effréné. Du grand Morgan, où on balance entre complots politiques, combats ultra violents et calibrés, et scènes hot mais jamais vulgaires. Le personnage est une sorte de Takeshi Kovacs désabusé (son surnom, Hak, me fait beaucoup penser à Tak), coincé sur Mars, où il passe le plus clair de son temps en cryo, et le reste du temps, embauché comme l’agent sur-entrainé et modifié génétiquement qu’il est.
Un livre qui se dévore, tellement on a envie de révéler le mystère de fin. Des twists intelligents à tous les chapitres, des personnages attachants (j’ai adoré Milton par exemple), un hard-boiled/noir/thriller qui plaira à tous les fans du genre.
Meh. Kind of like cyberpunk poetry for the most part... That's might sound cool (and I agree), but it gets old over the course of 400 pages.
In terms of story, Morgan has a great sense of spinning an intricate noir/mystery (as anyone who reads his books knows already).
I'm sure we'll see Veil again...
In terms of story, Morgan has a great sense of spinning an intricate noir/mystery (as anyone who reads his books knows already).
I'm sure we'll see Veil again...
medium-paced