The Mercy of Gods

M reviewed The Mercy of Gods by James S.A. Corey

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3 stars

Este libro ha pasado de máxima puntuación a mínima puntuación a máxima puntuación en mi cabeza a medida que leía, así que se queda en un aprobado para contentar a los dos lados.

De estos libros que está tan bien llevado, va tan fino y sabe tan bien cuando mover las piezas que te has finiquitado 500 páginas sin darte cuenta y estás dándote de bruces con la realidad de que no hay un segundo hasta vete a saber cuándo.

No soy muy fan de llevar a tus personajes hasta las últimas consecuencias para conseguir desarrollo, máxime cuando a la mayoría les falta una vuelta para acabar de ser interesantes. Les reconozco a los autores el tiempo que le dedican a las dinámicas del grupo, pero tal y como termina es como si estas no hubieran servido de nada (o sólo unilateralmente).

David Scrimshaw reviewed The Mercy of Gods by James S.A. Corey

A promising start

5 stars

I was nervous that I wouldn't like the new series from "James S.A. Corey" because it would be too much like the Expanse series, or they wouldn't have any new ideas. But it turns out I my fears were groundless.

It's got fascinating aliens, humans that think differently from each other, some of them coping with serious mental illness, and a base human culture that is similar, but fundamentally different to ours.

I really enjoyed this and really want to know what happens next.

enne📚 reviewed The Mercy of Gods by James S.A. Corey

4 stars

This is the first book in a new James SA Corey series, and I enjoyed it a bunch.

High stakes academia gets interrupted by alien invasion; their research then becomes even more high stakes while having to navigate trauma and powerful alien political currents. A pithy but unhelpful summary is that this book is about systems thinking vs the just-world fallacy.

The aliens are interesting in several fresh ways; one in particular is that they largely don't give a shit, emotionally speaking. They aren't angry or greedy or vengeful, which gives a much different flavor to an alien invasion. A lot of enjoyment in any book where humans encounter aliens is also about their relations and the slow reveal of who and what the aliens are, and so I'll hold back some more spoiler-y opinions.

(One side note about this book is just how straight it felt. Maybe I just …

This is the first book in a new James SA Corey series, and I enjoyed it a bunch.

High stakes academia gets interrupted by alien invasion; their research then becomes even more high stakes while having to navigate trauma and powerful alien political currents. A pithy but unhelpful summary is that this book is about systems thinking vs the just-world fallacy.

The aliens are interesting in several fresh ways; one in particular is that they largely don't give a shit, emotionally speaking. They aren't angry or greedy or vengeful, which gives a much different flavor to an alien invasion. A lot of enjoyment in any book where humans encounter aliens is also about their relations and the slow reveal of who and what the aliens are, and so I'll hold back some more spoiler-y opinions.

(One side note about this book is just how straight it felt. Maybe I just read too much queer fiction on the regular, but this [like other books by these authors] felt subjectively in the vein of "old school heterosexual science fiction" that I might have read when I was younger. Not everything has to be everything, but it was just something that stood out to me.)

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September 24