This is a book about an “Operator.� That’s what they call military James Bond types these days. It’s book onHit men, hit women, and hit squads galore!
This is a book about an “Operator.� That’s what they call military James Bond types these days. It’s book one in the Caspian Anderson series and it’s the only one I’ve read so far. Cas is a hit man of sorts who works for the US department of defense. He’s on a mission in Europe and things go wrong. Now he had to find a way to survive and figure out what exactly happened? I liked this book. It wasn’t the most original but it was a good story. There was a lost of action and some romance. In general it’s the kind of action oriented thriller that I enjoy. I’d read some more books in this series. ...more
This book takes place in 1918 in NYC. The time is important because WW1 and a major flu epidemic are part of the backdrop.A mystery and some history.
This book takes place in 1918 in NYC. The time is important because WW1 and a major flu epidemic are part of the backdrop. That and one of our characters is a radium girl. Our lead character is an 18 year old girl. Most of the characters are around that age. She is from a well to do NYC family and has all the advantages of such. Not all her friends do though. One evening during a party at the lead character’s house a young female guest falls down the stairs and dies. Is it murder? The police say no but the group of friends say yes. This leads the book down the direction of danger and a murder mystery as secrets in the friend group come to light. I liked this book. I liked the historical angle as well as the mystery. The characters were all well done and I enjoyed the various angles they were playing. To me the book was as much a character piece of the times as it was a mystery. I liked that. ...more
I don’t usually do this but I liked book one of this pair so that I immediately bought book two. It didn’t disappoint. We continue thA nice part two.
I don’t usually do this but I liked book one of this pair so that I immediately bought book two. It didn’t disappoint. We continue the story of a soldier in the future who fight in a mech suit. Except this book had the young girl he was allied with in the first book and we see things from her point of view. Most of the book is about her but we’re waiting for the inevitable team up. I don’t want to give too much away but this book also involves concepts of time that were in the first book. Not time travel but some interesting manipulation of time concepts. Overall this book was a good successor to the first one and continued the story well. ...more
Androne by Dwain Worrell I think the title is a mashup of android and drone. I can’t remember if they actually said that in Let’s pilot a war machine.
Androne by Dwain Worrell I think the title is a mashup of android and drone. I can’t remember if they actually said that in the book or not but it fits. I liked this book. It is the story of a soldier in the future who finds himself involved in a war with an unknown enemy. He remotely pilots a robot that fights in the war. That’s the way wars are fought in this future. There is a lot of nice descriptive writing about what it’s like to pilot and fight that way. Slowly over the length of the book the soldier discovers that things are not what he’s been told. He’s got to figure out what’s really going on and what he can do about it. In that lies the adventure and it was a fun adventure. ...more
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