Floating City

Rating:
Summary: Definitely Not His Best
Review: The author, whose nom de plume suggests an unusual zeal for bathing, was pretty much toasted on some hyperbole-inducing drug with this one. Anyone who thinks it takes a "quarterhorse of a man" to carry around a light antitank weapon can't have done all his research. They made them "light" so they wouldn't have to hire quarterhorses to cart 'em around. And I wasn't quite sure whether the hero was human or some supernatural alien who's omniscient tanjian eye, ki, tau-tau, or origamic whatzit seemed best directed at nasty people's trigger fingers. Throughout the book I kept wanting to say, "Geez, get over yourself." Skip this one and try something else.

Rating:
Summary: THE STORY WAS GOOD BUT NOT NEAR HIS BEST.
Review: THE STORY WAS WELL TOLD AND VERY EXITING, BUT, THE STORY SEEMED NOT TO WANT TO MOVE AS FAST AS IT WAS SUPOSSED TO. THE IDEAS AND THE PLACES HE TOOK US WERE FABULOUS AND THE WAY EVERYTHING WAS ENTANGELED WAS SPECTACULAR BUT THE WHOLE REASON FOR THE ATTACK AT THE END SEEMED ADDED ON JUST TO END THE STORY. THE NEXT BOOK SECOND SKIN FINNISHES ALL OF THE STORY AND TOGETHER THE STORY ARE WELL WORTH A SCORE OF 11. THANK AND AS ALWAYS. LOVE, CYRIC THE GREAT.