I had meant to put this up last week, but work demands meant I was tied up with more pressing matters. The result was too much to do in the time available. However, this has meant I will be able to implement some decisions I've been putting off due to a lack of time over the last 18 months.
Enough of the business side of being an aspiring novelist, because writers like to read too. After finishing the Andromeda series by Dietz, I jumped into reading the sequel to Dead Six by Larry Correia and Mike Kupari called Swords of the Exodus.
This is not in any shape or form SF.
There's some mild fantasy flavour, but not enough to remove it from the real world. Rather it treats some real world conspiracy theories and gives them a twist that could be explained by either being supernatural or alien artifacts. We shall see how it pans out in the third book. I enjoyed it, and the gun stuff is excellent. From reading around the web, I understand that this places the book in the male dominated action and adventure genre.
I may have misunderstood.
Regardless, this second book also clearly shows both author's development as writer's. The characterization is superior to the first book: as in both Valentine and Lorenzo are more clearly defined as people in their own right. In the first book, it was sometimes unclear from the voice of the character, who-was-who, except by referring to the chapter headings. This time I was never in any doubt about which character I was seeing the narrative through.
So again, recommended, and I can't wait for the third book to come out in paperback so I can find out what happens next. As a further recommendation I went and bought Mike Kupari's first novel, Her Brother's Keeper, on the strength of reading this.
Damn, another book added to the to be read pile: current running total 31.
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