Chris Packard

Decent story, not the spirit of Pertwee

Revisado: 04-16-25

The story is pretty good but I found myself oftentimes thinking that Pertwee wouldn't have acted a certain way in many situations, especially when interacting with the Master.

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An NPR mystery

Revisado: 03-21-25

I love the Slough House series but it gets tiresome to see the progressive slant of the author start to eclipse the stories. Not quite bait and switch from the first book but the line continues to get closer and closer with each book.

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My Last Abercrombie

Revisado: 11-19-24

I’d listen to Stephen Pacey read the dictionary. If you can get past the loathsome characters, the absence of magic, the drawn out overly descriptive cringeworthy sex scenes, the poor attempt at clever humor and the constant feeling of being beaten by a feminist with the wet sock of “The Message” the core story is ok. I had to force myself to finish it. I wish I could unlisten to over half of it.

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Progressive agenda driven story

Revisado: 11-15-24

Five stars for the performance and the hope my review doesn’t get buried under all of the fawning fans.

Half the violence of the preceding trilogy and twice the sex. This series is a feminist LGBTQ fantasy where the only intelligent characters are female and the only characters with any noble qualities are gay. Abercrombie was my new favorite author when I read his First Law Trilogy but I had to force my way through this one and I wish now I could unlisten to it. There are only a few characters in this series worth caring about and The Message is constantly looming overhead.

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Feminist fever dream. Should have LGBTQ tag.

Revisado: 11-13-24

I loved The Blade Itself. Abercrombie is a brilliant author but this series feels like it is pandering to the Feminist and LGBTQ community. I can accept multiple world views and opinions but this narrative is skewed even in light of his penchant for terrible people doing terrible things to other terrible people. Too little humor to balance all the horror and no hope or light at all.

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Bleak and joyless but well written bleak *

Revisado: 10-23-24

The good: Narration is stellar. The book is well written. The characters are intriguing and have depth. The plot is easily followed. The bad ( or the disappointing): overtly violent. I’m fine with violence but this seems more like spectacle and window dressing than for story. Bleak. No hope and a disdain for goodness and other positive life virtues. Depressing and negatively fatalistic. Glorifies the worst in humanity. Similar regard to his characters that George R R Martin has for his. Read it if you’re a glutton for disappointment. Worth a read but I’ll not read it again.


* If you are coming into this from such books as Tolkien or Sanderson or even Robert Jordan and hope for similar outcomes you may be disappointed. It is closer in tone to House of Dragons. A tale of horrible people doing horrible things to other horrible people. Perhaps it’s a lesson in evil begets evil. If that is your preference you with doubtless enjoy this tale. I would suggest starting with The Blade Itself, the first book of The First Law series.

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Disappointing second book

Revisado: 05-14-24

The story has become an atheistic progressive feminist dream fantasy. Characters have become unlovable and shallow having been stripped of any moral compass.

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There is no light, only dark against dark

Revisado: 04-12-24

The writing is well done. The world is rich. There is no end of intrigue. The fault for me was the author’s disregard for his own characters. If you want positive payment for the emotional investment you are asked to give the players, you will be sorely disappointed. This is a grim story of bad against worse with anything good or hopeful ground to dust in between.

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Factual but not impartial.

Revisado: 04-01-24

Good information, but biases are thinly veiled and evident. For the most part, facts are presented clear and concisely. At times, though, you can tell by terminology and instructors voice, how he values the information he gives, and he skews this towards his own biases.

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More graphic and violent than either Lovecraft or Sherlock Holmes.

Revisado: 02-23-24

I would say this probably is not for younger readers. The Cthulhu casebooks by James Lovegrove are probably better suited to a younger audience. This story kind of rambles back-and-forth and is peppered with extremely graphic and violent imagery that seems placed just for its own sake.

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