Review: Probably A Useless Review...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 3, 2013
because if you haven't read the first three installments, you should do so before considering this title and if you have already read the first three installments then you are going to buy this one. What more can I say? Well, a few stray thoughts I suppose.I find the contrast between Hugh Howey's and Patrice Fitzgerald's writing styles to be very interesting. The strength of the Wool and Shift series was the characters and the same is true here in the Karma tales. A lot of Wool featured Julie as a strong, central character and I thought Hugh did a good job of portraying a female. Patrice's book though approaches Karma  differently...we see a female character written very much from the context of a feminine mindset. I'd call Hugh's approach a little more swash-buckling and Patrice's a little more introspective and human. Both excellent.  Oh, passages of Karma 1, 2 and to a lesser extent 4 are borderline erotic; that's a good thing and I suppose that adds to the feminine context and the human connections.I had read a few other titles in between Deep Justice (Karma #3) and this title and I couldn't connect the dots in the first page or two of Rising Up; I had to go back and scan the last few pages of Deep Justice to remember where I was and why. If somehow you are reading this and the 5th installment is already released, I recommend reading them together as one cohesive story. Since the 5th installment will trigger the omnibus edition, it's not likely that a lot of folks are going to read this anyway so, back to my opening thought: probably a useless review but a hell of a good read.