ithinktfiam 's review for:

Burn Cycle by Joel Dane
2.0

I really hate it when the author thinks so little of his audience that he completely changes the universe to try to make a story interesting from a tactical point of view. The first book repeatedly said that the AI designed the CAV's so that a pilot was absolutely required. That continued in the first half of this one. Suddenly, though, they start remote control moving empty CAV's with no problem.

The plot is fairly basic and the characters aren't enough to save the book from that major flaw. The attacks on people are more serious, the government (businesses) is admitting the attacks have an intelligent actor, and it moves to a confrontation and then a cliff hanger for another book. I won't be reading it.