Woken Furies

The Book in 1 Sentence

Kovacs has run afoul of a religious group and the Yakuza, he hides with a group of Decomms which leads him to finding a possible rebel leader thought dead.

Brief Review

This is the last of the Kovacs book and I am happy that it is over. While this book was entertaining and told a great story, but really just felt like a long whiney book talking about how the girl he loved years ago who went somewhere else was killed based and he wants her back.

Why I Read this book

Finishing the series (Finally done)

In-Depth Review (Favorite Quotes)

Action. This book is full of it and is extremely well written and graphically described. Speaking of graphical descriptions, the author spent a lot more time providing completely pointless sex scenes that did nothing to further the plot or even introduce an additional issue in the long run.

The story is pretty good, ties in elements from the first book and maybe the second book. I can't remember what planet the second one took place on. Actually there were a lot of references to events on a planet called Sanction IV that I don't remember being that big of a deal until this book were all the Envoys are mad at him. That is one of my issues with the book. There is a lot of looking back that tells no story. Just lines like "I remember Sanction IV and made the best choices" or "You weren't there. So you try and make better choices with the limited options."

I have no really issues with the characters in this book just like the others. Kovacs joins up with people from the old days and some new players. They are all well written and show some seriously defined characters without compromising or being exactly the same as someone else from previous books.

Rating

I was really entertained by this book and still love the idea of sleeving. However, what made this series so good for me was that cyberpunk world. This book, like Broken Angels spends too much time in the wilderness doing a lot of nothing. Altered Carbon had a lot of talk about AIs, the city planets and technology, all for it to be pushed aside for this continued conversation about "The Martians." As part of a series, this book is a 5. It is hard to tie them together. As a book alone, it is a 7. Really entertaining, but a little long in parts and the main enemy is a specter that shows up for 30 pages at most. A majority of that just a conversation point, not actually in the scene.

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