Greg Rucka

Sixth volume starts with the bang as our heroine Forever finds herself devising the plots for extending the influence of Carlyle family in the never-ending conflict with Hocks and their allies. While entire book reads like a chess game between two supermen (ah, i got you here! no, I let you because I analyzed your look at the recent news about price of milk so I knew you would strike here, aha! etc etc - what price we pay for CSI/Sherlock like series, unbelievable) details do come out. And one is pretty striking and comes out in the middle of the Carlyle family - maybe old Carlyle is not the head of the family as we were lead to believe.

Art is as always good. Only issue I had is with identifying some of the characters (Marisol and Forever look like twins) but this might be something to do with the future story development (after all we are talking about clones and mental reprogramming (and outright override like it happened to Forever's once love interest)) so lets see what future issues will bring.

This issue feels like a preparation for a truly bloody events. All families have now taken sides, line is drawn and large scale conflict is started. As I said story gets more interesting by the issue.

Recommended to all fans of action adventure and dystopian SF.… (meer)

Well this was a strong finale for the current story arc. War between the houses reaches the climax that would put Middle Ages to shame, total annihilation and wipe-outs taking place left and right. This culminates with the session between Carlyle and Hock families. What comes pouring out shows how things started and how they ended - world thrown into turmoil and carved out by new feudal lords. Forever takes a desperate action, forced by her family's decisions - question is will she be able to pull it out, it is just too many moving parts in every direction.

I wont go into more details here because everything I say would be a spoiler, trust me lots of things take place.

Pretty good closure and I cannot see where it will go next. In parallel to main story famous Carlyle exile might just make his way back on the stage - as it usually goes in stories like this, he has a grudges of his own.

Highly recommended.… (meer)