Oh dear. I’m going to keep this exceptionally short, as I don’t really have anything good to say. Like many of you, I really, really wanted to like this one. I tried really hard to keep Ready Player One out of my mind, and I tried not to compare the two while I was reading this one. And for almost half of Armada, I was ok. I was annoyed, and yes, I realized that this one wasn’t as good as RPO, but I was still […]
The first mediocre book in what turns out to be a pretty awful series.
This was the first Star Wars expanded universe book I ever read, and as mediocre as it is, it’s primarily responsible for my obsession with Star Wars (and the EU) throughout my last two years of high school. Simply by existing, it was awesome back then. There was MORE STORY after the movies. More OFFICIAL STORY. Now, though, I have higher standards. It was fun to revisit this book that I liked when I was sixteen, again, mostly because it existed, but nostalgia was really the only […]
A checklist of 80’s trivia in book form
Okay. I’ve been sitting on this review for about two weeks, getting my head around how I felt about Armada for a bit longer, and 3.5 stars it is. It’s not a bad book — all things considered, it’s very entertaining — but even without comparing it directly to Ernest Cline’s first (and still best) book Ready Player One, it is precocious and simple in ways that aren’t completely flattering. There will be some spoilers below, and I’ll mark them. In this paragraph, I will […]
Definitely not Ready Player One
I really tried to like this. I really liked Ready Player One — in fact, that was probably one of the best books I read all year. In fact, I almost used an Audible credit to purchase Armada, since I liked the audio version of Ready Player One so much (both read by Wil Wheaton). Luckily, the library had Armada available, and I was able to find out for free that Cline couldn’t duplicate the magic of his debut. “I had been hoping and waiting for some mind-blowingly fantastic, world-altering […]
Ain’t worth a Bean
Ender’s Shadow is and always has been one of my favorite books in this series. Bean, even smarter than Ender and not hindered by all those guilty feelings, just fascinates me. As with the others, I listened to this on audiobook and the narrators continued their awesomeness. Ender’s Shadow acts as a companion novel to Ender’s Game — you don’t need to read Ender’s Game first, but I still recommend that you do. Ender’s Shadow works best to flesh out that already existing story. “That was interesting, to find that […]
A strange age
My library recommended this to me after I finished More Happy Than Not, and I can see why — while the plots have almost nothing in common, the style and theme seem similar. Basically, another coming-of-age story set against a slightly science fiction-y background (although the sci-fi in this story impacts the plot quite a bit more than the memory removal service in More Happy Than Not). “How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at […]
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