John Faugno

Not His Best

Revisado: 11-24-24

While "Jam" is an interesting and amusing take on an apocalyptic scenario, it lacks the deeper insights and message present in the Jack McKeown series. Yahtzee's an amazing reader, though, and there were laugh-out-loud moments of comedic timing, the overall story just felt flat to me. The characters didn't evolve, and the social/cultural commentary was weak. It was worth a listen, but as a palate cleanser between other, "heavier" books.

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Good, but not Great

Revisado: 04-11-21

If you're into Cyberpunk fiction, you'll find this to be a passable example. The story is okay, but sometimes hard to follow - though I think that's a problem with the performance more than the writing. Kovacs does a good job with the main character, but often the dialogue from the supporting cast is stilted, and her reading of action scenes is as wooden as plain exposition, often in a jarring way. In the end, I finished it because I'm a completionist, not because I was dying to know how it ended. The finale was fairly predictable, with the only twist serving more as sequel-bait rather than a part of this story. Too many overused tropes, too rooted in the habits of the genre, and ultimately good enough to not elicit an angry review, but far from getting a good one.

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Great Performance, Middling Book

Revisado: 03-26-21

Unlike the crisp and punchy narrative of Book 1, Book 2 has a lot of odd POV changes, time skips, and a fairly convoluted plot that resolves far too conveniently. While Sparks' reading is excellent and the emotion he puts into his characterizations is compelling, I found myself having to go back and listen to sections to catch the sudden jump in time or action. As a Shadowrun fan, I'm invested in the story of Sam, Dodger, Sally, and Ghost, but this story just misses the mark a little. Book 1 was a step above.

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Slightly less good than the previous three

Revisado: 01-19-21

Sanderson has accomplished something very special with the Stormlight Archive, but this chapter feels more like a "middle" than any of the others. As usual we're left with a hundred questions, but this time, I feel there were less answers along the way. Sanderson's worldbuilding is impeccable, but in this book we see the hand of the author more readily as concepts are explained in sometimes too-overt ways. Where I give the other Stormlight books 8.5-9.0 out of 10, this one is a solid 7.5 Still good, but not AS good.

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