Review: Great story, great writing, great pace - Bravo!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 29, 2014
I am partway into the third book of this series and recently purchased the fourth.  Robertson is a very talented writer.  The story is fascinating and carries the reader through time, space and characters on a current of horror, humor and revelation.  He takes time to develop his characters through sometimes mundane and sometimes horrific situations and is not afraid, from time to time, to kill one or two of them off.  His is a brutal world and the strong and smart survive.  One of my favorite, though transparent, devices he employs is the-end-of chapter cliffhanger.  He will end a chapter with something surprising, often plot jarring and frequently darkly humorous.  The humorous interplay between characters is sometimes a bit forced (most of his primary cast affect a casual, fatalistic humor you might expect of a bigger-than-life superhero) but I forgive Robertson the excess because he makes me laugh out loud.