Chance

Fantastic

Revisado: 02-26-25

A vibrant, original story with amazing world and character building.

It's Dungeon Crawler Carl.. including some species.. but at the same time totally different and unique.

All amazingly performed by who I can only assume is Mitch Hedburg's brother or college roommate. Maybe Mitch Hedburg reincarnated with a starfish in his chest.

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1/3 of a book, compared to the first 2 installments

Revisado: 02-03-24

Like others have said, it seems like a transition book switching over to a long series instead of a trilogy/miniseries? I don't know. it's good, just short and mostly filler and lead in.

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The Black Ocean universe is getting real enough to smell the smoldering ashes

Revisado: 01-11-24

Morin continues to tell amazingly detailed, amazingly continuity-sound, and surprising as all, damn-near novel stories inside of a breathtakingly real and fleshed out universe.

seriously. it's just amazing.

Of course, Naramore is as on point as ever.

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Done with McGinnis

Revisado: 11-18-23

I've read a few of his books now, and all of them seem to have some common issues. They tend to be simplistic, with minimal character and world building. They tend to have underlying notes of casual, but not outright, misogyny and racism. They (at least the ones I've read) all follow a white guy on a damsel rescuing, shoot em up, "adventure".

if you want/like Michael Bay action stories from a Reagan years worldview, this author/book is for you.

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Nothing Special

Revisado: 11-16-23

The main plot arc isn't anything all that original or intriguing. As other reviews have noted, the first half of the book gets pretty bleak. I assumed this to be somewhat of a build up/set up for some bleak/exceptional actions/decisions in response by the MC, but no, it's just there.

The interpersonal relationships are both stunted and immature. What exploration there is of the underlying politics, tech, or histories of the universe are bland surface skims.

It's not a bad story, persay, I personally just don't care about any of the characters, the universe, or really anything regarding the story after 10hrs. It's meh.

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Simplistic

Revisado: 11-15-23

Pretty much everything about this story, and it's narration for that matter, is simplistic. Juvenile. It's fast food- edible, but nothing memorable or really noteworthy, and a few of the fries are soggy or burnt.

Race and misogyny, given their prevalence of any time travel story with a group of people going back to the founding years of the colonies, are touched on, but nonetheless minimized bordering towards apologetic. "We bought a plantation that came with slaves. That's horrible! Welp, can't do much about it given the times, we'll feed and house them better, call them 'workers' instead of slaves, and free them on the DL in a decade or so while reminding them they don't really have anywhere else to go." "Women here don't do amything but manage the house, worry, and serve as damsels? Welp, good thing the only ones that survived past the first 50 pages fit that bill! It would have been a shame if the nurse or historian had made it.. their knowledge and capabilities would have raised many a eyebrow and added complexity to the rest of the tale!"

The entire book/series was just.. a simplistic story of a middle aged white dude building a micro empire in the past. It had plausible enough details and historical accuracy, a comfortable (read: predictable) plot and subplots, and a happy enough ending. On the whole, decent enough, but it won't get any replays from me. Check out Ring of Fire or Destiny's Crucible for better execution (IMO) of more or less the same premise.

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Keeps getting better

Revisado: 11-09-23

The world, characters, and story keep consistent, keep evolving, and keep getting better. Honestly, what's more to ask?

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not really my thing, even.

Revisado: 11-06-23

I'm much more hard-scifi/hard-scifi-lite, typically. I don't watch anime, I don't play Warhammer or similar video/tabletop games, and I literally fell asleep in all three LoTR movies I was dragged to.

That being stated- I didn't even really notice how the story was effectively centered around giant sword and hammer equipped Gundams. It's just a fantastic story set in a logical, believable, and (always most importantly) so far consistent new series universe.

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YA, maybe?

Revisado: 10-16-23

A continuance of the second book's trends, with the addition of a "revelation" every other paragraph that causes everyone's "jaws to drop wide open".

Most of the plots and subplots are blindingly obvious and predictable to anyone who has completed a HS education, which only makes the fact that trained Navy Seals and changing-the-world grade scientists so baffled by, and then shocked (see above) by, them all the more indigestible. It also doesn't help that several developments and plot points are direct results of trained Navy Seals and/or CIA agents going waaaay out of their way to only knock someone out, or shoot them in the hand, or whatever only to have the bad guy show up again 10 pages later. And then again. Pretty much the entire book is "quick, I knocked him out, let's run away! He'll tell his goons which way we went as soon as he wakes up! We gotta get a head start!" "Oh, no! He told his goons how we escaped and told them where we were!" *her jaw dropped- they were caught*.

So, yeah, maybe this is YA without a tag. I honestly don't know. As far as an adult book/series, though, it is simplistic at best and rife with illogicalities, inconsistencies, and some out and out wtf's.

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Naivety creep

Revisado: 10-12-23

The first book was good, with only a few technical/consistency issues that I noticed, but nothing really glaring. This book is similar, but with the addition of some rather glaring issues in regards to how things work in the real world, things that elude, but should be obvious to the genius scientists, and a few overlooked *glaring* potholes. In several spots- particularly towards the end and the wrap up- it felt like a teen fiction book or a PG-13 movie. Like, I don't know, watered down or almost immature in the actions, revelations, and emotions.

I'll read the third one and see if some of the issues are/were plot set ups, but if the naivety creep continues, I'll definitely be done.

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