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A review by luke_td
Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee
After the nearly non stop action of book 1 and the frequent action of book 2 this one slows things down, but then building a better world would be slower and less exciting than crashing a bad one.
The sort of book that gives you pulp (crazy weapons, immortal enemies) by way of people talking in rooms. It's not bad by any means, and luckily all that talking is real dialogue and not just a stream of ideas wearing quotation marks like a fake mustache, but the lack of weapons and formations is felt.
Doesn't help that Jedao is more interesting as a periphery character the world revolves around, than a central character the world pushes to the periphery.
Still, without overly speculating, this one felt a little more personal, and a little more "the point" of the trilogy, and in that sense, it's hard to suggest it somehow missed the mark it was aiming for.
The sort of book that gives you pulp (crazy weapons, immortal enemies) by way of people talking in rooms. It's not bad by any means, and luckily all that talking is real dialogue and not just a stream of ideas wearing quotation marks like a fake mustache, but the lack of weapons and formations is felt.
Doesn't help that Jedao is more interesting as a periphery character the world revolves around, than a central character the world pushes to the periphery.
Still, without overly speculating, this one felt a little more personal, and a little more "the point" of the trilogy, and in that sense, it's hard to suggest it somehow missed the mark it was aiming for.