Consuming Fire

by John Scalzi

No cover — John Scalzi: Consuming Fire (2018, Pan Macmillan)

336 pages

English language

Published April 4, 2018 by Pan Macmillan.

ISBN:: 978-1-5098-3517-1

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(41 reviews)

3 editions

Ian Sudderth reviewed The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi (The Interdependency, #2)

Just a ton of fun

4 stars

Great plot, great world, amazing characters, so fun and funny

Noisy Deadlines reviewed The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi (The Interdependency, #2)

Secrets are revealed

5 stars

The second book of the series and very enjoyable, like all Scalzi’s books. We learn lots of secrets about how The Interdependency was created and the Memory Room. There are cool AIs, conspirators, palace intrigues, plot twists, and people getting arrested. It ends in a cliffhanger so I had to jump to the third book right away.

Tak! reviewed The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi (The Interdependency, #2)

The Consuming Fire

4 stars

Content warning ending metaspoilers

The way everything wraps up so neatly, while extremely satisfying, also puts a big dent in suspension of disbelief

Martin Kopischke reviewed The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi (The Interdependency, #2)

One review fits all

3 stars

This is very much just one part of a three-part novel, which I find difficult to review in isolation. Because this site works best when people review the things they read, however, I will be adding the same review to all volumes.

John Scalzi is a nice guy writing nice SF novels.

You could almost leave it at that, really. For the sake of context, I will add a few more details to this assessment. This, like all of his novels I have read, is smoothly plotted and written, entirely unsurprising in its cliffhangers and ultimate resolution, and contains exactly one original idea. This being said, it’s an entertaining read if, at times, a bit too glib to my taste (I don’t think Scalzi has ever seen a witty repartee he didn’t like). If what you want from your SF is what I just described, you could do a lot …

John Scalzi is a nice guy writing nice SF novels.

Yuri Krupenin reviewed The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi (The Interdependency, #2)

Review of 'The Consuming Fire' on 'GoodReads'

2 stars

Самая печальная связанная с этой книгой вещь - я не могу её даже ненавидеть, не за что: это просто более-менее работающая история из далёкого межпланетного будущего #29376, с центральной аркой 34/б: оказавшаяся на троне по ошибке императрица человечества спасает это самое человечество и наглядно демонстрирует сговорившейся против неё шушере, что сама куда более компетентна в закулисных играх. Форма ситуацию не спасает: в лучшие моменты Скальци неотличим от Рейнолдса, в худшие - вы с горькой ясностью понимаете, что это всё же несомненно именно Скальци. Тоска.

Да, это вторая книга видимо трилогии; рецензия применима и к первой.

Strakul reviewed The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi (The Interdependency, #2)

Review of 'The Consuming Fire' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Overall, this is a nice, short book that further continues the story of The Interdependency. In my opinion, it's not as good as its predecessor though it has its redeeming moments. I wish the characters or the plot were a bit more complex, but at least the setting gives me many things to think about. Even though it started slow, it certainly picked up pace in the later half of the book and ended with some epic scenes.

For a full review, check out my blog: strakul.blogspot.com/2019/02/book-review-consuming-fire-by-john.html

Balise reviewed The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi (The Interdependency, #2)

Review of 'The Consuming Fire' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

A great sequel to The Collapsing Empire. Still very entertaining characters (same ones, so if you didn't like them in the first book, don't expect to like them more here), a fair amount of smartassness and kickassery, cloak&dagger&treason, and IS THE THIRD BOOK AVAILABLE ALREADY? :P