Ernesto I. Ramirez Gomez

Marvelous insight

Revisado: 03-09-24

Marvelous insight in the story of the Samurai as class and warrior, also is interesting to see how much of Japan history and myth has the Samurái as it's backbone and support and how much of what we thought about it is mere myth, even to Japan itself.

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interesting but not without failings in plot.

Revisado: 08-03-23

Interesting world and story, but it has some serious flaws, some are about repetitions, where the protagonist is explained something that has already been explained or that he narrates to the reader and then he is shown surprised or befuddled.
There is something else about the main premise that takes us to the protagonist and then to the endgame, and is something stupid about the use of language. Spoiler ahead: language is a relatively modern language even compared to modern languages kill and king are quite different words, example in Spanish matar and rey, latin or Greek will be the same, words so different that they can't compare, so now an ancient magic language that is written in hard lined like an ideogram would have kill and king words being so similar they can be confused, much less has a moderniss last name like Grimsby (great full name otherwise).

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Amazing short story

Revisado: 04-10-23

Great future noir in the tradition of the old hard-boiled but with sci-fi elements. The premise of the CroatoanColony is rather interesting and they leave open some good questions about it all.

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Deep world building

Revisado: 01-10-23

I loved the world-building of the future Earth and how decadent it becomes, and the deep insight on the characters, in a few ways I think is best that the story is intended to be prologue, but Alan Dean Foster does an excellent work of novelization that one too.

But yes, is a shame you see only dead people and ask yourself if the story has any reason to be, but I did like what the author did with it.

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Great Thriller

Revisado: 05-26-21

Amazing story, it's very Gibson and reminds me of Neuromancer and Count Zero, to the point I was waiting for an IA at the end, so I am pleasantly surprised that the ending was quite a different one.
Great thriller.

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Extraordinaire historial fiction

Revisado: 05-01-21

Good historical fiction takes you to the time and place where it happens, great historical fiction makes you believe (or makes you want to believe) that the events presented really happened as they are told. Moore makes us believe even if at the end, like a magician revealing his secret, reveals what was real, what was not, and how he mixed both in this delightful novel.

Johnathan McClain does a decent job narrating, but quite often loses the voices of the characters or mixes them, which might make it a bit hard to notice who said what at certain moments, a shame, besides that is an extraordinaire audiobook.

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Good story, a bit over the top at the end

Revisado: 10-14-20

Good story and good narration, loves the characters but did find a couple of unbelievable things at the end, and none related to zombies, but to the human antagonists, they act like zombies, rush in without thinking, no self preservation, no strategy, I mean if an army of white suptemacist stop to think, yes the characters would have died and things would have been less exciting, but therenare better ways to treat that last confrontation thanna horde of mindless rednecks.

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Fascinating and enlightening

Revisado: 07-31-20

Fascinating and Enlightening view on the story and development of science fiction, it's misses japanese manga (a genre on its own) and anime from where many of the modern writers (even William Gibson) have borrowed ideas and viceversa. like Ghost in the Shell and Akira.

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A classic reinvigorated

Revisado: 02-22-20

Between the introduction and the story itself, Wilson makes an amazing work bringing The Odyssey into the world of today, making it easy to follow and quite entertaining... and Claire Danes does an extraordinary work narrating it.

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Cute, light hearted and funny.

Revisado: 02-09-20

The story is fun for a very dark theme (urban legend) and well is a comedy and a romance so it was easy to know where it was headed.

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