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I'm trialling Kindle Unlimited. Actually, I'll tell the truth, my book Deadly Messengers is gathering quite a few page reads via Kindle Unlimited, and I wanted to have a nosy around what was on offer and why it was being read so much.This book Split Second by Douglas E. Richards kept being recommended to me by Amazon's algorithms and it sounded intriguing. I love techno thrillers, and since Michael Crichton's untimely death I haven't found anyone who can write a cracking adventure and throw in c...
I'm a huge fan of technothrillers and this one is a doozy. (Do people use that word anymore? If not, they should. :-))There are so many genres and subgenres today that it's easier than ever to find the right kind of stories we enjoy reading. When I was a kid, technothrillers were simply science fiction books. Little green men and titanium alloy men all bundled up together in the same category. Finding the 'sciency' ones instead of the 'fantasy' ones was like a pot-luck dinner.Split Second is a s...
Looks like I finally found my replacement for the late, great CrichtonSplit Second is a book about time travel… but not really. What if you couldn’t go back to the age of the dinosaurs, or even watch your birth. But, you could only go back a fraction of a fraction of a second. Literally less than a blink of an eye. What good would that do? Apparently, two rival corporations and agencies know what, and will kill to find out more.The narration was done by Kevin Pariseau was excellent. The hard sci...
No rating: did not finish.Wow, what crappy writing. Tell, don't show: long paragraphs of background information inserted into dialog between characters, sometimes entire chapters. A few action scenes here and there, but not enough to get me through all the explanatory dialog. People just don't talk like this, unless to themselves.Richards gets carried away with his explication: at one point he actually forces a character to define what another character calls a "ranch-style house": "Oh, you mean...
Ooof, this one was rough. I don't know what compels me to read books I KNOW will be hot garbage. Sometimes you want to just turn off the ol' brain and let the hours aloft in an airplane fly by, I suppose. But this book I read - for the most part - on terra firma so I don't have any excuse. I am a notable sucker for time travel stories, so when I read the blurb that mentioned it, I was on board. And I DID get a kick out of the sci-fi thought experiments peppered throughout the narrative. Thus: tw...
This book was not for me. I felt that the author overspent time in the book trying to flesh out the characters. Usually, I enjoy an author doing that, but in this book it felt really unnecessary and a lot like it was padding the book. Spending a chapter on characters political beliefs, only to never reference it again seems like a waste and something that could have been edited out. The book does move along pretty quickly as it is written like a thriller, and while there were some plot twists du...
This is the first book I've ever listed as 'read' without finishing it. I'm listing it such because I've gotten 65% of the way through and just can't keep going anymore - but want the credit against my reading goal.This was a trial. The book could have been written by taking ten words from the start of any sci-fi novel and running a Markov chain off of those words. I'm torn as to my favorite part - was it where in the first chapter he used two pages to summarize the plot of the movie Idiocracy?
I thought to myself some brain candy would be good, got a copy for $.99, a plot about a new take on time travel sounded fun. Maybe something fun and entertaining like a Clive Cussler novel, my not so secret vice. Shame I couldn't get past an entire chapter that was little more than an unvarnished jingoistic diatribe to see what the take was. I'm used to authors incorporating their political or personal beliefs into their stories (Dan Simmon's Flashback being a recent example), but typically they...
I almost put the book down after the pointless anti-Islamic screed at the beginning of the book. That probably colored the rest of my experience, but I just didn't enjoy it.
Physicist Nathan Wexler discovered how to send matter back one-half second in time. Doesn't sound like much, does it? But the mathematics involved are of desperate interest to two separate groups, both of which are willing to go to any lengths to get their hands on Dr. Wexler and his equations. Wexler and his fiancée, Jenna Morrison, are kidnapped at gunpoint by one group and "rescued" by the other, but the rescue goes horribly horribly awry, and now Jenna is on the run. Alone.The first half of
If I had to use one word to describe my thoughts on this book, it would be "conflicted". I went into reading it with little expectations since I saw it at the top of the "popular" list in science fiction / fantasy on the Kindle app. I skimmed the book description, saw that time travel was involved and that was all the reason I needed to start reading. I LOVED the time travel aspect and I feel the author did an amazing job describing, what I imagine to be, one of the most complex concepts to tack...
