Woken Furies (Takeshi Kovacs Novels)

Audio CD

English language

Published Jan. 1, 2005 by Tantor Media.

ISBN:
978-1-4001-0199-3
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OCLC Number:
66256255

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4 stars (78 reviews)

Richard K. Morgan has received widespread praise for his astounding twenty-fifth-century novels featuring Takeshi Kovacs, and has established a growing legion of fans. Mixing classic noir sensibilities with a searing futuristic vision of an age when death is nearly meaningless, Morgan returns to his saga of betrayal, mystery, and revenge, as Takeshi Kovacs, in one fatal moment, joins forces with a mysterious woman who may have the power to shatter Harlan's World forever.Once a gang member, then a marine, then a galaxy-hopping Envoy trained to wreak slaughter and suppression across the stars, a bleeding, wounded Kovacs was chilling out in a New Hokkaido bar when some so-called holy men descended on a slim beauty with tangled, hyperwired hair. An act of quixotic chivalry later and Kovacs was in deep: mixed up with a woman with two names, many powers, and one explosive history.In a world where the real and virtual …

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Review of 'Woken Furies' on 'Storygraph'

No rating

As soon as I realized it was a prequel I dropped it. I didn't get two books deep into lore just to do a prequel story.

Review of 'Woken furies' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

It makes sense why I never finished this book when it came out. It has fantastic world building but quite a dull story. It introduces fantastic potentials for twists and exciting build-ups, but then just let’s them wane out. The big reveals at the end should have come way sooner.

I found the narrator (audio book this time around) and his attempt at a one-man theatre cast extremely tiring. His “female” voices reducing every woman to a hapless damsel in distress almost made me put the book away in the first minutes.

Review of 'Woken Furies' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

This one is based on Harlan's World and its many oceans--and I felt like I was floundering a lot. Sometimes I'd grab a good surf but for the most part I thought the story line just got lost.

Kovacs has a grudge that he's hell bent into, predictably things happen and now he's a part of another story, then that story goes and becomes another story, and we circle back and forth like a tide and..

I liked some of it. The whole dCom outfit was just fun awesome--I could use a whole lot of books just on those kids and their toys. The rest.. I'm not sure. Feels like a bunch of novelettes that got strung together somehow. Overall I enjoyed the read and I wouldn't mind reading more set in the universe--but like the author said in an interview once Kovacs has had his time and you can …

Review of 'Woken furies' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

J’abandonne ce roman après en avoir lu un gros tiers car l’excès de scènes d’action m’ennuie profondément et me donne envie que de sauter des chapitres entiers. Si l’action a toujours été très présente dans les deux précédents romans de cette trilogie, le dosage me paraît ici déséquilibré. Tant pis, je n’irai au bout des aventures de Takeshi Kovacs, mais je n’y prenais aucun plaisir dans ce troisième et dernier volume.

Review of 'Woken Furies' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

2015: And then the end never stops twisting about ... back-stabbingly beautiful.
I love the way he describes technologies in his future vision of humanity. I am going to miss Takeshi Kovacs, I may even have to read the books all over again.

2018: Did get around to the reread. I had a harder time with the re-read than I anticipated because I did remember just enough to take away the major reveals. However that makes it possible to focus on other aspects of the books more.

I like the writing style, clean, well-paced and with a lot of fun quips that make me laugh or smile. Especially the dialogue scenes make for great reading. As I am not a fan of action and fight scenes in general I can't say much to that. There are enough of them to satisfy those who like them - for me this led …

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