‘Ahead Of Its Time’ Score: 4/5 This book - written in the 90s - was well ahead of its time in many ways. It describes a technology we don’t have yet - ‘uploads’, or uploading personas so your thinking runs on a computer instead of a brain - but so many of the incidental bits are nearly spot on. Mobile phones, the web, virtual reality... All technologies in their infancy when the book was written but they ap…
‘That’s More Like It’ Score: 4/5 There’s more action in this book - I thought the previous book dull in comparison. And it’s better action too, driving the overall story arc further along. Sometimes some of the elite crew really do seem dumb though. No spoilers though, even though I’d really like to rant about it. …
‘Not Much Happens Here’ Score: 3/5 I’m still enjoying these books but... well, there’s not a lot going on in this one. In the others there are big battles, crescendos, and steps towards resolving a bigger goal. This has less of that. It was still fun, just a bit of a placeholder.
‘More Alien Infantry Battles’ Score: 4/5 More infantry battles. More aliens. If you liked the previous books you’ll like this. If you didn’t like the previous books you won’t like this. I am liking this series, even if I do keep quibbling about the plausibility of bits of it all.
‘Reacher Gets To England’ Score: 3/5 Yeah, another Reacher novel. They’re still fun - fast-paced, easy to read, not too deep for my tiny mind. This one is... not the best Reacher novel. At least part of that is the alien feeling of reading Reacher’s take on things that are common in England but weird, rare or unknown to US folk like Reacher. Is this capturing the alien feeling the author felt when he first…
