Another Great Read

I really enjoyed the first novel, and while the second has a very different fell its every bit as good. Solid story, a few throw backs to the first novel, but no enough that you need to have read the first to enjoy it. The universe that Morgan has created here is really interesting and I hope to see a few more books in this series

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Thin characters, not well suited to audio format

A little way in to this book, a whole bunch of characters are introduced all at once, several with similar sounding names (indecipherable for me in audio format), and nothing about any of them that really makes them stick. Having experienced a similar problem tracking the characters in Richard Morgan's Book 1 of this trilogy (Altered Carbon), I knew I would need to remember who was who if I were to appreciate the inevitable twists and turns... but the author does little to give any of the characters depth - they are all forgettable, don't care what happens to any of them. Fewer, more interesting characters that we can have a chance of caring about, and with distinct sounding names please! e.g. if the author sees this (which I doubt, but hey), I recommend he reads a Brandon Sanderson novel to learn how to make characters count.

It has put me off bothering with the third book, since it's not relaxing/fun to forever be rewinding the audio to earlier chapters (and there's no search function...) to try to figure out who's who. In the end this reads like an action movie - pretty dull, especially when the central sleeve / host concept is fascinating and has tonnes of psychological consequences that can be explored.

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Pretty good, but...

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

If you liked Altered Carbon, you'll love this. This is Kovacs doing what he does best, as a soldier.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Broken Angels?

Richard Morgan does a great job building dramatic tension. There's a bit where one of Kovacs' team is being ritually executed in the most horrible way, and they're all basically dying but Kovacs decides he's not going to just sit around & listen to it happening. I won't spoiler it but I'll leave it to you to find out how he tries to deal with it and if he succeeds.

What do you think the narrator could have done better?

Learn to pronounce words like Maori. It's not May-ory!

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great book

love the books, i have stylistic differences with the narrator, but i cant say he was bad!

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Very different to the first book.

It was enjoyable enough but I preferred the 50's detective style of the first one.

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Clever and wonderfully entertaining

After listening to Altered Carbon I saw the lukewarm reviews and decided not to get it. A few years later I changed my mind and in my view it is at least as good as its predecessor, if not better. The narration is first rate, the concepts are clever, and it's entertaining to listen to from start to finish.

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The Takeshi Kovaks saga continues

More Envoy enhanced adventures this time chasing ancient Martian relics. Rip snorting stuff! Worth the listen if you liked the style of Altered Carbon..

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Out of this world!

This is the second book I’ve now listened to in this series, having just finished it I can’t think of anything I would really change, a few of the voices sounded a little out of place on a couple of occasions but, I guess that’s the same with every narrator and isn’t much of an issue.

In recollection I felt it took a little while to get going but once the story hooked me, The it just kept giving, right to the end!

Can’t wait to listen to the next!

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As good if not better than Altered Carbon

Hats off to Richard Morgan on Takeshi Kovacs second outing! A great mixture of politics, philosophy and psychology with a sprinkle of sex and violence. Absolutely brilliant!

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Morgan does it again

If you enjoyed Altered Carbon this will not disappoint. Fast paced and full of action, you’ll need to keep your wits about you as this story gets quite immersive. Todd does a great job once again narrating and really brings out Takeshi as an interesting main character.

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