A smorgasbord of summer blockbuster movies. Independence Day, Armageddon, The Day After Tomorrow, Oblivion, with a splash of Star Trek Borg. Not for the hardcore sci fi fans. The plot took to long to unravel, the characters lacked a soul, and the romance was awkward. This was a fast paced easy read. Because of that i gave it a reluctant 4 stars.Downloading mankind's consciousness to the intergalactic cloud. Hmmm.How could you not know Oscar was Star Trek's Data? 3 1/2 stars.Update July 31I drop...

Dual first person telling not showing.5 stars for imagination.1 star for style.Reads like a high school kid wrote it. There are two protagonists and the writing annoyingly shifts between their first person narrative. Their voices are very similar. The grammar is mostly okay, but the style is atrocious. There are many four word sentences and the dialogue lacks nuance and depth. Perhaps Riddle’s worst work.

I really enjoyed this one. It has the making of a Hollywood blockbuster. I kept seeing the movie in my mind as I was listening to the audiobook!It follows two astronauts, Emma and James as they attempt to save the world and discover what is bringing about a new ice-age.Winter WorldI thought it was great, lots of action, adventure, and romance… Ok so I didn’t like the romance so much. I thought it was extremely corny. But overall it was a great book!It was non-stop something happening. I enjoyed

Written like a screenplay, all talking heads with no chemistry between the characters. I'm not going to believe that the two main characters are falling in love just because the author tells me they are. The male MC is a total Mary Sue too. He received his doctorate in biochem on the same day as he got one in medicine. He can analyze people better than a psychiatrist. His only flaw is that he thinks people are better than they are.I suppose he leaps tall buildings and travels faster than a speed...

Very meh. It felt like an attempt to cross Enders Game with the Martian, but it fell flat. I honestly can't even remember anyone's names from the novel only a few weeks past reading it. The two main characters are a male who is a super genius, and ends up being a great leader, statistician, public speaker, and overall a Mary Sue coupled with a female who is an astronaut and crew leader but ends up being nothing more than a love interest following the male around. How great it could have been if

I'm aware I'm odd woman out...I don't want to be! I want to be in the group of A.G. Riddle lovers!It's not Riddle, it's me, and that's obvious by the author's hordes of fans.My first A.G. Riddle so I have no connection to Riddle, no fond memories of previous books, and am out of my lane. As many sci-fi movies that I watch, one would think I'd like sci-fi books, but not so. I've read several sci-fi novels this year that were all highly recommended, award-winners, but nothing notable. I usually su...

Not an enjoyable read, and quite poorly written. I felt like I was forcing myself to finish the latter third of the book just so I could move on to reading something else as quickly as possible. I doubt any other book includes the word “drone” quite as many times as this one either. The book is presented through two main characters, a Male know it all with apparently no flaws, and a female astronaut. I agree with many of the other reviews on here, the female lead turned from a strong interesting...

In a startling about face it looks like I am the odd one out for actually liking this book (even though it rated quite highly). After our months of fires, heatwaves and years of drought I found this story, set in the very near future, about the earth facing a sudden ice age and thought it would make a nice change. I really didn’t know what to expect and found myself fully immersed in - ta da, science fiction. This is not a genre I read widely and certainly not lately. Which might explain why I e...

Even though I can’t understand how this book has such a high average rating, I have to acknowledge that and recognise that different books appeal to different readers.The problem for me is not the genre.But if you are analytical by nature and enjoy the logical puzzles posed by mystery and detective books, you will find Winter World so full of holes that the biggest challenge will be to finish the book.

'Winter World' was a a great first book A.G. Riddle's The Long Winter Trilogy. I was especially intrigued when I learned what was causing the world to be turned into a literal frozen tundra. The plot kept me interested as I went along with the team led by Dr. James Sinclair - who, after being let out of a life long prison sentence for reasons we do not find out until we are well into the novel - was the only one with the experience and intelligence who could possibly have an iota of a chance to

This is a good book, but it didn't stay with me. When I'd first finished it I was planning to grab the next one, but it faded quickly.The world is not just cooling, it's freezing and soon we'll all be...well, kaput. Humanity will be gone, a thing of the past, no longer viable, dead, cold meat, frozen cold cuts. Then (of course) the said humans discover that for some reason while the sun's output hasn't diminished for some reason the heat reaching the Earth is "substandard", wayyyyy toooo substan...

I’ve never seen so many high school level similes and metaphors in one book.

I tend to gravitate toward certain genres during certain seasons. Spring, for example, is a time of hope, and so it requires the hope-filled literature of science fiction. Finding good science fiction, though, isn't easy. That's because good science fiction builds believable worlds and creates characters we care about while also blowing our minds with science and technology that's almost indistinguishable from magic. Talk about a tall order!Winter World is good science fiction. I raced through i...

I dont get it...Spoilers below.To begin with, how can 28,000 1.5 mile wide hexagrams block the sun? how can this not be seen from the earth? So the book was broken from the beginning. Then, he kept writing about what a genius the main character was without giving any examples at all. And lastly, making it back to earth in an escape pod from the asteroid belt in 6 weeks.... 6 weeks I can understand, but lasting in an escape pod for 6 weeks just put the nail in it for me. I like my science fiction...