stormnsa.blogg.se - Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding

However, none of these characters (with the exception of Crake probably) are under any illusions about the fact that they and their comrades are all massive dickturds, which sort of makes it a little more acceptable. I do like Crake, Malvery, and Harkins for the most part (besides Silo and Jez), though Pinn is so unlikable he’s not even funny most of the time. The other characters are somewhat more redeemable. There’s some tragic backstory but it wasn’t really enough to redeem him.

I know you’re supposed to like Frey–my friend compared him to Locke Lamora–but while Locke is a deep enough character that you can’t help but like him despite his obvious faults, Frey never really gets that far. As the story goes on, the characters do evolve and grow. This is the status quo and instantly tells you all you need to know about the captain. The book starts out with Frey caring more for his airship than a crew-member’s life.

Jez, navigator: Pretty much the only likable character on this bloody ship.

Not an a**hole, though he also doesn’t say very much. A drunk a**hole, though more of a jovial one. An elitist a**hole with a dark secret, though he tells himself he’s not (elitist, that is). Pastimes are gambling, women, and caring more about his ship than his crew. The crew is launched into a sinister plot in which they have to try to prove their (questionable) innocence and escape (somewhat not deserved) justice. When they are offered the haul of a lifetime, they can’t really refuse–but Frey has suspicions, and it turns out that his suspicions are right. They get by through small jobs and petty thievery. But the Ketty Jay, to be frank, is crewed by a bunch of a**holes, and their captain, Darian Frey, is the biggest one in the lot.Įxtremely brief synopsis: Darian Frey, said a**hole, is the captain of a motley crew and barely-afloat airship, the Ketty Jay. everyone in Game of Thrones except Jon Snow and Daenerys Stormborn). Now, I like morally difficult characters (cf. The slight problem that I had with it was that the characters are, for the most part, extremely unlikable and unsympathetic.

This is a light, fairly fast-paced read, and highly entertaining.

He wasn’t wrong, and I found myself doing the same thing to my boyfriend. A friend recommended this book to me, with the promise that it was hilarious, that his girlfriend kept reading lines aloud.