That's about where I started to lose interest, too. So much of the interesting world-building is in that first part, before it decides to turn into a heist novel.
I'm desperately trying to finish Neuromancer by William Gibson so I can move on to spooky season books. It's not bad at all, I'm just not really clicking with it, so it's been slow going.
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Finished Death in the Spires by K.J. Charles, a two-timeline mystery focusing on the unsolved murder of a member of a group of friends at Oxford. The author normally writes steamy romances, but this tastefully cut to black before anything got explicit. Something about the writing or story made it a very enjoyable, fast read; I haven't devoured anything so quickly in ages.
Bingo squares: New Release; Disability Representation (hard); LGBTQIA+ Lead (hard); It's About Time (hard); Mashup; Institutional; (alt) A Change in Perspective
Only adult one I can think of is Tailchaser's Song by Tad Williams (cats). There's a ton of these for kids, though; here's a few I've read:
- Redwall series by Brian Jacques (forest critters; I found it repetitive after the first few, but ymmv)
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (rats)
- Stewart Little by E.B. White (mouse)
- Charlotte's Web by by E.B. White (pig)
Edit: Sorry, I derped on the scifi/fantasy/action aspect of the request; the E.B. White books don't fall into that category.
I wanted to see this thing in motion, so I tried to search up the youtube video, but no dice. Every article on it is just copy-pasted from the original on the Express site, and I can't get the embedded video attached to it to work. I did find an article on NIWA's site about a species of sea pig, which looks similar.
Iirc from my time on kbin, posts are for the "microblog" part, i.e. the part that interacts with mastodon.
100% agree; I was so bummed Riddick was just inferior Pitch Black. The animated one, Dark Fury, was fun, though, iirc.
This is correspondence and such that's been sitting around in a warehouse for however many years, untouched.
Fanart of artist rendition:
I have the sound of this stuck in my head now, thanks.
Did a quick search, looks like ExeKiller, which isn't out yet. Hope you find something good to play in the meantime!
Absolutely agreed. The narrative makes choices in a few places, and some of the second half seems kind of muddled.