- An interesting sci-fi series that’s kind of a cross between Cyperpunk and Warhammer 40k. It starts off quite good only to degrade a bit with the whole infiltration plotline; there’s already a story there with the romance and new job, you don’t need incongruously personal world-ending stakes on top of that.
- While I’m not a fan of the Dark Souls mechanics that have been hamfisted into the combat scenes, or any game mechanics really, the author clearly both has a detailed vision and executes it competently.
- A remarkably good sci-fi paranormal romance series which, curiously, feels a little like Risou no Himo Seikatsu. Although I enjoyed the first book for the most part, ultimately all the drama around the relationship dynamic comes across as manufactured semantics.
- First thing to note about this is the unusual prose; there are fairly frequent odd turns of phrase scattered about. That aside the beginning is pretty interesting, if a bit disjointed… but unfortunately the complete 180 on the day before his execution is brutal.
- The events here lack grounding. Things seem to happen only because the story needs them to, with the characters’ actions feeling particularly abnormal.