Avery Cates: The Electric Church (Series #1) (Paperback)

from freddiefreddie

Not as well-executed as I anticipated. Excessive profanity. Not that excessive profanity offends me (I use it myself), but Somers seems to rely on that to spice up the dialogue. The pace, breakneck and breathless, was also a little too fast for me. I suppose I like a more slowly-paced book.

from stacy_chambers

Profane, but exciting debut from Jeff Somers. The cursing got a little old toward the end, causing me to slog through the last quarter of the book-definitely not the place you want the reader slogging. Still, I'm willing to give his new book, Digital Plague, a try.

from FrontStreet

The setting is the world in the future, a future that haas been described in other sci fi or fantasy books before this one. But that is part of the appeal of this debut novel, it takes the familiar, the acceptable and turns it into a terrifying prediction. It is the feeling of reality, the possib...

from calculoid

This is a fun read. The good: the main character, Avery Cates, is really well developed and interesting. It has a cool, future-noir, post-war/disaster, police-state setting and a lot of action. Somers' excellent writing style, which is witty, and biting, makes me want to keep reading. Also, cybor...

from peridotite

I read the first chapter in the bookstore, and the style drew me in - somewhere between cyberpunk and a hard-boiled detective novel. Unfortunately, as the book unfolded, none of the characters gained any depth, none of the problems became interesting, and the solution was always violence. The boo...