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a publié une critique de The Ghost Brigades par John Scalzi (Old Man's War, #2)

The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created …

Where's John Perry?

Found as EN "boxed set" and read the trilogy (with Old Man's War & The Last Colony) in less than a week (nights mainly). Less entertaining than #1 IMHO, but "needed" to jump into #3

a publié une critique de Small Town Heroes par Marion G. Harmon (Wearing the Cape, #4)

Marion G. Harmon: Small Town Heroes (Paperback)

Astra has become one of the most popular Sentinels in Chicago, past scandals notwithstanding, and …

Not really part #4

This is book #4 in the series, but it's not the fourth part. Apparently there's a short story, "Omega Night", and it contained both plot and character developments that significantly impact this book. However, even on the official author's website it's not listed between books 3 and 4. It's listed after the final book, among other "related works".

And the author doesn't really do a good job of recapping what happened, it's just an abrupt jump, and now Hope/Astra's angsting over a new crush that started during that book, freaking out over a danger to one of her friends that's due to events in that book, and a number of other sudden changes.

And these changes continue to casually come up over the course of the entire book, so that put a serious damper on my enjoyment of it.

Beyond that, the premise/setting was unique and somewhat …

a publié une critique de Dungeon Born par Dakota Krout

Dakota Krout: Dungeon Born (2019, Mountaindale Press)

Titles are dumb

Despite the two main characters having the same character, this was fun and fresh and slightly silly. It reminds me of Unsouled (Cradle #1) but also a bit of Ed Greenwood's Band of Four series.