Not the introduction to the subject this book pretend to be! I'm totally new to the hindu myths and was really looking forward to read this book. I did enjoy it. I did learn a lot. But I also had some problem getting into it, not understanding, but remember and connect every dots. There is tons!!!! of information in it, lot of name (a glossary sure would have help!) and it became confusing and hard to get through it. I thought maybe I was just dumb, but a lot of reviews seem to go in the same way.

It's a good book, a good work of reference on the topic, even if it could have been better organized, but honestly... not for beginners, maybe more for amateurs who want to deep dive a bit more into it, but for the newbies, it just felt overwhelming with too many information. I am always a reader who complain about book not going deep enough or being too light and this is my punishment for it!

This manga had some incredible elements, but it also had some bad ones. The premise of the story and the weirdness of it was just awesome. A strange cosmic horror cannibal planet comic to Earth, wow this doesn’t get more intriguing than that!

Unfortunately, the story didn’t always go in the right direction. In the beginning, first third, instead going all in into this cosmic horror them, it goes back and forth between it and the pop star teens trying to escape a mob, which was totally uninteresting. Then something happen, and I won’t say to much for not spoiling anything, but let just say that the direction change again, but we still follow a bit too much of the Remina, the girl, and not enough of the planet Remina. It also too often goes into directions that were curious and I just would have like the focus to be else were. The last third was not really good. Final point, the story felt a bit rush, this could have been a small series instead of a single issues and it would have allows us to explore a bit more of the world, the story to take hold on us and even maybe develop those characters a bit more and add some complexity to them to help them feel more likeable!

So overall a very solid and interesting idea, but the way the author decides to tell its story, some poor characters and some strange narrative choice, make it lost a bit of interest to me. I’m sill glad I finally read this author how is well know for doing manga horror, weird and even cosmic one and I will look forward into his other works, but as for this one, it was still fun, had some great dark moments but I was expecting something more in the overall experience.

I enjoy it! Quite fun, quick read and we learn a bit more!

2,5/5. Mixed feelings! Lot of information for sure, but the way the book is organize didn't felt right to me. There is also a back and forth between knight information and more historical ones and I think there are not at the same level. The knight ones are a bit light and very basic, the historical are more complex and more «educative» but I'm not sure they would appeal to the same readers. The author also use too many words to describe something quite simple from time to time. Still interesting and could do a good introduction book, but I didn't like it much!

Lu en français.

Très décevant. Une écriture assez terne et une histoire, qui sans être mauvaise, a déjà été écrite un million de fois. Une histoire de violence conjugale sans aucun éclat. Je ne le recommenderais pas!

I'm afraid this wasn't meant for me! It wasn't what I was expecting. The tone wasn't right. What I was expecting to be a good and slightly funny book for bookish was in the end more of a cultural tale surrounding the market of book. The author seem like someone who love to heard himself talk and that was the feelings I had all along. Like when you talk to someone who just talk about himself again and again and again. A bad date! I felt pretentious to me, lot of name dropping. «I was there. I've seen that and I read book you never even heard about.» Sure the author know his subject and have a solid bookworld background, but in a way he remind me of bad teacher, there is a huge difference, a world, between knowing your subject right and being able to pass it on.

The Original is certainly not the most original book. I think it's only available s audio at the moment and I have to admit they did a good job creating it. It has some background sounds and music some times and I'm not the biggest fans of adding sounds to audiobook, but here it,s truly well balanced, well place and help create the ambiance, like when the main character heart start pumping up and you can hear it. I was listening to it while driving and the bass sounds of the heart in my car was just immersing me in her feeling of stress and fear.

The book might be a bit over hype due to Sanderson name on the cover... It's a good thriller, fairly short, around 3 hours of listening at normal speed, but not really mind blowing or original. It remind me a lot of Altered Carbon in the overall premises, and while I was interested knowing what had happen and why, I wasn't dying to know and the ending was okay but again, a bit short, to be totally satisfying. Worth listening, short, entertaining, but don't get your expectations to high.

2,5/5. An entertaining when you don’t think about it too much.

The first 2/3 of it was good enough, we want to go what happen, the pace is good, we turn the page and enjoy doing so. But when you close the book, get out of the ambiance, and start thinking about it, you see the unrealistic element that seem to be everywhere. Why everybody is so happy to talk about their dark history to a newcomer wanna-be filmmaker? Why does relation and intimacy go so fast? Why do the event just fit perfectly together everywhere? The narrative is a bit force from time to time and we saw it easily but still when you are reading it you enjoy doing so.

The last third is less fun. The forced elements are just too many and too much forced, so we go from unrealistic to just nonsense. The end was a big deception and I saw I coming from very far. So overall the book is a bit of a remake of many plots seen in the last years, lack originality and even the execution is just average. And it’s even worse since I was expecting this book a lot, waiting for it and with this author, well I had way higher expectations.
If you don’t read much thriller you might enjoy it still, but if you have read a good bunch, the similarity, the tropes and the lines and glue trying to keep it together will just be too evident to just let them pass.

2,5/5. Un gars dépressif, interné. Un partage d’états d’âme délirant. Une lecture qui apporte assez peu. Le style est efficace, la forme est correcte, mais le contenu, le fond, manque de matière pour pousser à la réflexion ou apporter un réel propos.

Après l’avoir terminé depuis deux jours, ce livre me laisse encore perplexe. J’ai apprécié la lecture, pas autant que pour les deux premiers tomes des cantos cependant. Peut-être ceux-ci mettaient-ils la barre trop haute, étant si bien exécutés! L’histoire m’a semblé un peu étirée par moment et je ne peux malheureusement pas dire que les personnages m’ont autant rejoint émotionnellement que dans Hyperion. L’univers de cette série demeure tout autant fascinant, autant par son originalité que par sa profondeur. J’ai bien hâte de lire le quatrième et dernier tome pour voir comment le tout se conclura et j’avoue avoir développé un intérêt particulier pour Dan Simmons dont je vais certainement approfondir l’œuvre. J’ai déjà acheté une demi-douzaine de ses autres romans.