68th book of 2019
When I’m bored and on a plane, sometimes I write book reviews (i.e. right now). Other times I watch marvel movies. This book fits squarely with the Marvel movies.
Welcome to the helicarriers… I mean Rife’s Raft… I mean Endura: the floating city of cliche scythe plots and Chekov’s guns locations. Despite the fact that GRR Martin can’t seem to put out more than one book a decade, plots like this remind me why a decade is worth the wait.
Spoilers
If Scythe Lucifer could get caught by his partygoing friend AND his former mentor, wouldn’t the Scythe police be able to find him pretty easily? I’m amused and gratified that he got caught trying to sneak in a window by two redshirt guards.
Every new method of perma-death is revealed as if it’s something that people are completely shocked by. I dunno, if there were only three possible ways for me to perma-die (fire, acid, sharks), I’d try and learn about all three. I’m really hoping for sharks with lasers to be introduced as the fourth method of death in the next book.
I’ll read the third book, sure.