August 2024 Books // 9 Short Reviews!

he came out with a kind of short novel length called Arc of Ascension which was a sci-fi thriller SLS Space Opera that I read last year and really enjoyed

I found it really repetitious when they were kind of a series of articles about one crime because you know if you're a newspaper reader every time that they bring up the article bring up the crime they have to recap the crime and they have to recap what's happened up to that point so it was very repetitive. so crime beat by Michael Connelly is frankly only for a Connelly completionist like me

I really felt it was lacking here until about the halfway point and then when we got kind of to the conclusion of these different plot threads and the two could converge that's when it got really interesting and the ending of this book was fantastic

it just shows how good Martin is that he can take what is traditionally a dry type of narrative style and make it so good and so riveting and so compelling I was hooked from page one till the end

I really enjoyed this one it was great how mccormac was not just great at characterization but she gave all the characters something to do

it was a little Meandering in the middle and a little repetitive in the middle but man the ending brought this together in such a meaningful way

I liked the second book a lot especially the ending was just very strong and I like the way the story went

this was a collection that I enjoyed quite a bit in comparison some to some other ones because the stories were longer I don't know if I'll ever fully Embrace his short fiction at least with the love that I have for his novels but I enjoyed my time with this one and this is a short story collection of his that I do recommend

I didn't really like the first book although I like the way it ended and that got me to continue

I really enjoyed this one for two big reasons number one every great crime novel has one of those plots that moves around and this one I thought was very good it had just quite a few plot turns that were very plausible but very unexpected. but what I liked most about this book is we saw kind of a little bit more of just the craft Behind These two private investigators how they work how they reason through crimes

the characterization is superb the storytelling is superb the pro style is incredible the setting the setting the it's the Byzantine Empire so good and when this character who's on this big Journey finally gets to the center of the Empire the political Intrigue and the tension in these political scenes is so palpable incredible

probably the thing that impressed me most about schul TI's work in this book was the World building because it was deep it had a lot of depth especially in the aspect of History. I do feel sometimes though that he kind of threw sentences at you that you didn't have the context