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A review by greenikat89
Cyber Shogun Revolution by Peter Tieryas
2.0
My friend bought this book for me based off all the positive reviews on GR and Amazon. I like sci-fi, I like mechs, I liked Pacific Rim and so my friend thought this would be a perfect book.
Even though this book is the third in a series, I wasn't missing anything and could follow along with the plot. The two stars are because there is no romance between the main characters and because there's a lot of female characters and racial diversity (even if it's written in the most ham-fisted clunky way to show it).
Most of this book I felt like I was in a fog. There were not a lot of concrete descriptions of the world to really build up settings or even scenes. Character emotions were just told (i.e. "she felt sad"), the sentence structures were simplistic, the fighting descriptions felt more like a script, the dialogue was awkward and almost everyone talked exactly the same except for one character.
Even the formatting of the book is just weird. The book is divided into part one and part two, there are no actual chapters but there are divisions to indicate if it's character A we're with or character B but they sound so similar that it doesn't matter. I don't even know why it needed to be divided like that.
As for the clunky diversity, I don't mean I hated that there was diversity. Most of the books I read are PoC centered because that's important to me, but the author just randomly dropped that knowledge when some characters were introduced and it was just an ethnicity label (This is X, they're half A and half B) and that was it. Not all characters introduced had an ethnic label so it was weird when it did happen, and there are other ways to show a reader that there's diverse characters other than a single sentence about a character and then never mentioned again.
This book needs a better editor both for some grammar mistakes but also to cut down on a lot of unnecessary "chapters" that added nothing to the story.
One other star because this book is unintentionally funny because of how bad it is. Here's one such excerpt from page 77. The context is one of the main "bad ass" characters has been taken captive by a nazi scientist and had just witnessed two people he knew were murdered right in front of him:
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"Your shoelaces are untied," Bishop said.
"Excuse me?"
"Your shoelaces."
"You're a joker."
"I mean it."
Dr. Metzger looked down and saw that his right shoelace was untied. He signaled one of his underlings to tie for him
"You don't even know what awaits, do you?" Metzger said with a contemptuous laugh.
"Your scalpel?"
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Hilarious.
Even though this book is the third in a series, I wasn't missing anything and could follow along with the plot. The two stars are because there is no romance between the main characters and because there's a lot of female characters and racial diversity (even if it's written in the most ham-fisted clunky way to show it).
Most of this book I felt like I was in a fog. There were not a lot of concrete descriptions of the world to really build up settings or even scenes. Character emotions were just told (i.e. "she felt sad"), the sentence structures were simplistic, the fighting descriptions felt more like a script, the dialogue was awkward and almost everyone talked exactly the same except for one character.
Even the formatting of the book is just weird. The book is divided into part one and part two, there are no actual chapters but there are divisions to indicate if it's character A we're with or character B but they sound so similar that it doesn't matter. I don't even know why it needed to be divided like that.
As for the clunky diversity, I don't mean I hated that there was diversity. Most of the books I read are PoC centered because that's important to me, but the author just randomly dropped that knowledge when some characters were introduced and it was just an ethnicity label (This is X, they're half A and half B) and that was it. Not all characters introduced had an ethnic label so it was weird when it did happen, and there are other ways to show a reader that there's diverse characters other than a single sentence about a character and then never mentioned again.
This book needs a better editor both for some grammar mistakes but also to cut down on a lot of unnecessary "chapters" that added nothing to the story.
One other star because this book is unintentionally funny because of how bad it is. Here's one such excerpt from page 77. The context is one of the main "bad ass" characters has been taken captive by a nazi scientist and had just witnessed two people he knew were murdered right in front of him:
---
"Your shoelaces are untied," Bishop said.
"Excuse me?"
"Your shoelaces."
"You're a joker."
"I mean it."
Dr. Metzger looked down and saw that his right shoelace was untied. He signaled one of his underlings to tie for him
"You don't even know what awaits, do you?" Metzger said with a contemptuous laugh.
"Your scalpel?"
---
Hilarious.