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This is exactly the kind of scifi I love. Great characters, great story, great everything. I'm already on the second book and hope the characters I love, Rake, Cavalon, Jack, Puck, will be fine in the end and that the genocidal fuckers get fucked. I would've not put the book down if life hadn't intervened. Just fun all around.

I was looking for Lovecraftian books and this book was recommended by multiple lists I found. Unfortunately I hated it and finished it out of spite. The book is for the most part, utterly mind-numbingly boring. The part I was looking forward to the most was writing this review to vent my frustration with this awful book. It is certainly Lovecraftian, but horror it is not. Not once did I feel uneasy, afraid or any other feeling I am looking for when reading horror. Why anyone would recommend this book is beyond me. It is best forgotten as there are so many other books you could read which are not this bad.

Das Buch hatte Potential, aber die Umsetzung war mäßig. Vor allem die Charaktere waren sehr schwach. Komplett überzeichnet und irrational. Dabei gefiel mir die Geschichte wirklich gut und man hätte so viel mehr daraus machen können.

I enjoyed this book most of all the books in the trilogy. The teen angst has been dialed back and some awesomeness took its place. If you followed the series, absolutely pick the finale up as well. A great journey, a great end.

A short read which I really enjoyed. I had to get over the name Vitrine, which still feels silly. And the ending felt too sudden, which knocked it down from 4 to 3 stars. But I still enjoyed it a lot. Very quickly I was missing Azril and I liked skipping through centuries to see it come to life again. I think this is a book I'll carry with me for a while.

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An OK Reacher. Nothing to write home about. I kinda think this series has overstayed its welcome. I somehow still can't stop myself from picking up the yearly novel, but it feels more like an obligation than something I am looking forward to.

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The era of Harry Bosch is slowly coming to an end and I wonder how many books we will have left with him. It will be bittersweet to see him go, but Renee and Maddy are there to pick up the mantle and I am not worried at all. This book is a great entry in the series and I am always looking forward to my yearly dose of Ballard/Bosch.

An enjoyable and very quick read. I like these one-offs from authors, where they explore ideas and going into a bit more depth than a short story. The book surely wasn't perfect or the best one I read this year. But it kept me entertained for two hours and that's not nothing. Recommended for fans of Scalzi's writing.

Sehr kurz, hätte ruhig noch kürzer sein können. Ich hatte nicht das Gefühl, dass die Idee so viel hergab. Die Hälfte der Seiten hätte locker gereicht.

Ich fand das Buch OK, es erinnerte mich vor allem an Lovecraft. Wobei Gruber nicht ganz diese existenzielle Bedrohung beschwören konnte, wie es Lovecraft oft gelang. Einige Bücher von Wolfgang Hohlbein haben ähnliche Ansätze, sind aber literarisch nicht so sauber ausgearbeitet wie Gruber es kann.

I finished it, but only because it was short and j did want to know the solution. Overall it didn't fit my taste. The writing and the characters are too old-fashioned and foreign for me. I do love a good murder mystery and I guess this one isn't that much different than an old Agatha Christie novel. But I find those difficult to read too. Recommended if you want a murder mystery and a glimpse into post-war Japan.

I enjoyed it. A murder mystery with some more mystery on top and some time travel. I had an idea about the original murder quite early on which turned out to be right. But there was still a lot of stuff I did not foresee.

The final entry in the Divine Cities trilogy was, in my opinion, the least good. I still gave it three stars, because I did enjoy it. I just enjoyed the first two more. The protagonist this time is Sigrud and some mysteries of his are solved and he gets a fitting ending. But I just felt the story wasn't as good as its predecessors. It felt a bit like an entry in some YA series.

Aftwr seven years I finally picked up the second book in this trilogy. I had only vague memories of what had happened, but that wasn't a problem. This book is set years after the first one and the events are mentioned in sufficient detail. I enjoyed Mulagesh as the POV protagonist and the story had again world-ending stakes and a satisfying conclusion.

A nice, quick read. I liked that it jumped back a year after the beginning and then worked until that time again. The characters were OK, maybe a bit standard. Just like the overall story. But I was still entertained. I wonder if we will learn more of Alys and Sammish or if we get to see the same timeframe from a different POV. I'll probably continue the series. Recommended if you enjoy being dropped into a new world without loads of exposition.

It was OK. I think it ended up exactly like Scalzi intended, like a pop song. A very quick read, not to deep, and you'll forget most details a few days after you read it. But a line or two or the beat might stick with you long after. If he ever returns to this world, I hope he changes the style and gives everything more depth. It was OK for this short book, but it gets a bit annoying after a while. Recommended if you've enjoyed the general style of Scalzi's other books or like Kaiju and want a slightly different story involving them.