Recently Read Books

Next in my line of authors to pick up again having not read them for years. First of a trilogy (which also has a sequel trilogy) and I'll be reading the next two books straight away although will probably read a few thrillers after that as that will then make six fantasy books read on the trot. I really enjoyed this one, rather humorous dialogue! Can't actually believe its taken me this long to pick this one up. They've been on my reading pile (I say pile, it's actually more like ten shelves and a wardrobe full of books) for a long time. 

I left it far, far too long since I read one of these which is too my detriment as there's so much I don't remember and have been having to rely on Malazan Wiki to fill gaps. 

While I won't be reading the remaining books one after the other, I will have to make sure that I don't leave it too long between them again. 

So this is what I read since my last post here:

I think Adrian is one of the best current writers in the fantasy and sci-fi realm. These were no exception, though I did feel parts of the middle book dragged a bit. Also maybe he wrote his influences on this sleeve a bit with this series: it seems highly unlikely that he wasn't in some way influenced by Neal Asher's Polity universe here. I mean not only does he actually use the word polity to describe human culture in the book, the concept of unspace is very like Asher's underspace and there's also a character that feels similar in purpose and abilities, if not origin, to one from Asher's Agent Cormac series. I'm not saying they're a rip-off - the stories are completely different - or that similar plot devices haven't been used before Asher, but having read the Agent Cormac series (most of them still relatively recently) it felt a bit on the nose. 

It's a pretty simple story told from a bird's eye view.