#gridlinked

[roseunspindle]

Feb TBR

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29100207-welcome-to-night-vale

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48166780-voices-in-the-snow

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/246255.The_Middle_Ages

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40859678-gridlinked?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=HHoVhbY5It&rank=1

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34314712-the-fifth-season?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=olTT2t5zGL&rank=1

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6364718-john-dies-at-the-end

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28220892-vassa-in-the-night?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=fbA7LlISPz&rank=1

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6487308-fallen?from_search=true&qid=PUmE6zgmYa&rank=1

[roseunspindle]

Worst Books I read in 2024

The Girl the Sea Gave Back - I just…did not like this, where the first book flowed this book felt confusing and repetetive. The Dollmakers - The main character annoyed me and the reasoning for events felt…stupid. The Princetta - too fast, not enough depth and just choppy Gridlinked - just so meh and anytime it felt like things were picking up the book slowed down and the ending was…confusing and weird. A Lesson in Vengeance - just ended up kinda annoyed with the characters and story throughout like they kept getting in the way of the good story that kept creeping about the edges.

[laserswordsanddragons]

Finished. Good book, but the ending was odd.

[neuvirtualoasis]

Battletech

Timberwolf

by. Gridlinked

[jmkmagnum]

So the ending of Gridlinked is super cryptic and doesn't explain anything. Like, it revolves around a character suddenly putting together a bunch of facts and speculation and discerning the motives of incomprehensible alien entities, creating a secret trickery plan, and executing it. Except despite the book being third-person limited and him being one of two major POV characters, this all happens off-page for suspense, and there's no "Ah, you see, what I realized was ____ and so I planned to do ____". Kind of strange, but okay, sometimes endings just don't explain stuff. Hyperion was cool.

But where it gets funnier is that there's an alternate Explains It All ending on the author's web page, and the explanation is actually pretty coherent. It's not stuff I could've put together on my own, since I usually don't really perform that kind of speculation and piece-matching as I read books, but it does make sense and it is kind of clever.

Books are weird.

[jmkmagnum]

Just started reading Gridlinked by Neal Asher, so far it's a lot easier to wrap my head around than The Skinner was. It feels pretty cool, there's a Big Disaster and a grizzled investigator and a sadistic leader of a separatist terrorist cell all jangling around, being dramatic.

It's a little weird to see a character who is more or less explicitly told that he's spent so long jacked into Future Twitter and Space Wikipedia that he's lost his emotions and is in danger of becoming an inhuman shell. Although this came out in 2001.