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A review by timinbc
Full Fathom Five by Max Gladstone
4.0
Ambitious or what? This book is complex, wildly imaginative, mostly compelling, ground-breaking, unusual, all that and a bag of chips. Four stars, almost five, and certainly five for not reining in the old imagination.
It's painted on a smaller canvas than the previous books, and despite the author's intent to make them stand alone, I think this one's better after the others.
If you like straight-ahead action plots with Sgt. Brock Manly and his hard-boiled, dedicated, megaweaponed team of studly studs, well, are you ever in the wrong place. The cast of characters is as diverse as the setting, and most of the leads are female, even if one didn't start that way.
There's a fair bit of this-does-that-gosh-wow that is explained with "well, gods, magic, you know," and if that bothers you you won't care for this series. But it's really about the more-or-less-human characters - or their more-or-less-human parts, anyway, and how they react to all this stuff happening around them and to them.
And you know how so many Goodreads reviews tell you so much about the plot that you feel you don't need to read the darn book anymore? Not here. A summary, to be useful, would have to be be almost as long as the book.
I don't usually read during the day unless I'm travelling. But today I set aside an hour to finish this one.
Read them all.
It's painted on a smaller canvas than the previous books, and despite the author's intent to make them stand alone, I think this one's better after the others.
If you like straight-ahead action plots with Sgt. Brock Manly and his hard-boiled, dedicated, megaweaponed team of studly studs, well, are you ever in the wrong place. The cast of characters is as diverse as the setting, and most of the leads are female, even if one didn't start that way.
There's a fair bit of this-does-that-gosh-wow that is explained with "well, gods, magic, you know," and if that bothers you you won't care for this series. But it's really about the more-or-less-human characters - or their more-or-less-human parts, anyway, and how they react to all this stuff happening around them and to them.
And you know how so many Goodreads reviews tell you so much about the plot that you feel you don't need to read the darn book anymore? Not here. A summary, to be useful, would have to be be almost as long as the book.
I don't usually read during the day unless I'm travelling. But today I set aside an hour to finish this one.
Read them all.