leesarpel's review
3.0
Dzholh “Joe” Ban!drn, a Garradian, and Violet Baker, NOPD are sent to retrieve some people who haven’t evacuated New Orleans Old when there’s a Category 5 hurricane bearing down on them. They go between bands of the storm, but bad data throws them into the heart of the storm with equipment in poor condition. They must try to survive nature and an evil trying to sabotage them.
The cover is excellent. I’m used to people who look a little vacant or suffering indigestion against a background of the galaxy. This uses a literal interpretation of a metaphor- the eye of the storm, and that amps up the cool and danger simultaneously.
Even in the future, police departments need to make do with a shoestring budget, and that proves important to the plot. Also, the method to the deaths got more ghoulish as I thought about it harder. The paranoia is woven in so that I, reading it, got more paranoid about everyone and everything in the book conspiring against Joe and his companion.
This book chronicles action admist forces of nature. I had trouble figuring out the spatial and physical mechanics of what was going on at any given time. The piloting the skimmer and other navigation sections left me feeling lost and quite aware I was reading fiction. This may be worse because I have no geographical knowledge of New Orleans. I don’t know how this would work for others, because my spatial reasoning is abysmal. If you can visualize yourself in the environment, you’ll have much better luck.
I’m not sure what’s alien about Joe besides his having purple skin and a nanite integrated in his head. I think I missed the memo on the attractiveness of near-human/early Star Trek aliens.
The tongue-in-cheek terms tended to grate on me. Some of them I grew fond of, but I never got accustomed to the word 'crapeau' in lieu of other swear words.
The cover is excellent. I’m used to people who look a little vacant or suffering indigestion against a background of the galaxy. This uses a literal interpretation of a metaphor- the eye of the storm, and that amps up the cool and danger simultaneously.
Even in the future, police departments need to make do with a shoestring budget, and that proves important to the plot. Also, the method to the deaths got more ghoulish as I thought about it harder. The paranoia is woven in so that I, reading it, got more paranoid about everyone and everything in the book conspiring against Joe and his companion.
This book chronicles action admist forces of nature. I had trouble figuring out the spatial and physical mechanics of what was going on at any given time. The piloting the skimmer and other navigation sections left me feeling lost and quite aware I was reading fiction. This may be worse because I have no geographical knowledge of New Orleans. I don’t know how this would work for others, because my spatial reasoning is abysmal. If you can visualize yourself in the environment, you’ll have much better luck.
I’m not sure what’s alien about Joe besides his having purple skin and a nanite integrated in his head. I think I missed the memo on the attractiveness of near-human/early Star Trek aliens.
The tongue-in-cheek terms tended to grate on me. Some of them I grew fond of, but I never got accustomed to the word 'crapeau' in lieu of other swear words.
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