Review: As good as the rest...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 20, 2013
When you start to read a bunch of books in a series or by a specific author, you start to compare them to each other and not so much to books by other authors.  That said, I think that REAPERS compares very favorably to the other books in the BREAKERS series, as well as to other post-apocalyptic fiction.I really enjoyed this story, set in the Breakers universe, which centers on New York, both upstate and the city.  It explores how people will react to the loss of constraints that are put on us by civilization.  Of course, all the books explore this theme, but this one seems a little more direct in addressing it.  It's well written, and as usual, the characters are very well drawn, in my opinion.  (I've seen other reviews of books in the series that feel the opposite, but it was the characters that drew me into this series in the first place so I think those other reviews are wrong.)I still give this book a solid A grade, although I think I may have liked the first just a hair more.  I'm not tired of this universe, and would love to read more stories set in it.  (Maybe Edward Robertson should open his world to other authors as Hugh Howey did with the WOOL universe...)  Another winning entry in a compelling series.