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So far it's my least favorite of the series, although it's still got all the stuff that makes it fun to read/listen to. But the primary story in this one reads a bit like revenge porn for the folks who are totally bought into the "war on terror" narrative in contemporary politics, framed in a "let's all cheer while we happily go down the Bethany Anne totalitarianism road, because totalitarianism is ok if we like the leader!"Not something for which it's easy for me to suspend disbelief.
Audiobook review: I enjoy this series! Quite entertaining for someone interested in vampires, weres, & a bit of sci-fi. Not a lot of inter-personal drama (Yay!) or relationship crapola soap opera shenanigans to deal with. Yet just the right amount of action, fighting, and scientific talk and honorable work that many of us wish we could be a part of. The narrator, Ms. Beresford, does a fantastic job with voice inflection and character individual voices!
Ratings are based on this being unarguably just a fun action series full of stereotypes and tropes and having no pretense of being anything but. I'm relieved that Book 7 is actually a good stopping place. Not sure if I'll continue Kindle Unlimited or Prime (which, if you didn't know, even though you may PAY for a book there, if it was Prime discounted, it disappears from your Kindle library if you quit Prime, does not re-appear if you join again later). So, I have a few Prime books to get throug...
I eat with this series, fall asleep reading it, even work with it (you can imagine I'm not getting a lot of work done). Definitely one of the best series I've ever read.
This book series is just so good! Sure it is light and quick reading and its never going to win any literary prices but then I really do not care about a bunch of old geeks or politically correct wankers telling me what is a good book or not. This series is unique (in my limited experience) in how it merges science fiction and urban fantasy. In addition it has plenty of fun dialogue totally ignoring any form of political correctness (aka creative cussing), plenty of action and is really my cup o...
7 books of escapist funI don’t get the people who review books like phds in classical literature. All I’m looking for in a book is to sink into the world and characters and for a moment in time live another life. First review of this series and I can say all seven of these books have done just that.
Went off the rails at some pointI really wanted to like this book. The series had real promise, but somewhere along the way it all fell apart. About half way through I had to abandon this book. There are a lot of characters that are introduced in this series that go nowhere, lack any kind of meaningful development and oddly are often named the same making things very confusing. This book eventually became anti-muslim revenge porn, lacking sophistication and intelligence. There was such a promisi...
This is one where I gave upWhat was promoted as a series with a strong female lead drifted into a misogynist boys club where the women serve as objects to comment on.The anti-Muslim terrorist narrative misses an opportunity unity to explore real issues of power, colonialism and the ethics of moral killing for cheap repetitive narrative.Simply couldn’t be bothered to finish this one and see how the strong female lead was conquered.
Gets better the more you read :)So... the plot thickens. Oh boy! And it just keeps getting better. The fearless leader is a woman. A bloody hot woman. Damn shame she's straight. Her language skills are beyond excellent. Some are extremely unique.Some of the action scenes leave little too the imagination. Lots of blood, Gore and screaming. Although I think the screaming is more due to Bethany Anne's red eyes and extending fangs.BA and the TQB's take out all the terrorists who took part in the rec...
I didn't enjoy #7 as much as the other books and I hope it is not a trend as I move on to the eighth book(view spoiler)[I think the author is diluting the series by adding charcters and subplots which are not so enjoyable or even downright corny. Corny. There is too much corny dialogue in this book! And! There are like five characters which push my "skim button". Lance, Patricia and the three boy-men working on the spaceships. I don't care for the inevitable romance with Michael and I don't know...
Totally unique and SO much FUN!!!!There's SO many things that I love about all 7 of the books that I just read. The story is unique and absolutely hilarious. I love how it's action, sci-fi, and fantasy all wrapped up in one. Vampires, aliens, weres, and badass military men and women. I laughed hard and often. I cried occasionally, too. This is my new NUMBER ONE series. I don't care about any editing issues. They don't take away from the story in any way or make it hard to understand so, who care...
Wow! I absolutely love The Kurtherian Gambit series. Love, love, love Bethany Anne. What an awesome heroine. She cusses worse than a drunken sailor and seriously kicks some ass. There are so many battles in this book, by John, and the Guardians, and by the QB’s Team, and by Bethany Anne and Michael. Two of my favorite parts are when a terrorist throws a brick at John and John catches it and throws it right into another terrorist’s chest, cracking his sternum, you have to remember that Bethany An...