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Broken Angels

Altered Carbon, Book 2

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Broken Angels

By: Richard Morgan
Narrated by: Todd McLaren
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Fifty years after the events of Altered Carbon, Takeshi Kovacs is serving as a mercenary in the Procterate-sponsored war to put down Joshuah Kemp's revolution on the planet Sanction IV. He is offered the chance to join a covert team chasing a prize whose value is limitless - and whose dangers are endless.

Here is a novel that takes mankind to the brink.A breakneck-paced crime thriller, Altered Carbon took its readers deep into the universe Morgan had so compellingly realised without ever letting them escape the onward rush of the plot. Broken Angels melds SF, the war novel and the spy thriller to take the reader below the surface of this future and lay bare the treacheries, betrayals and follies that leave man so ill-prepared for the legacy he has been given: the stars.

This is SF at its dizzying best: superb, yet subtle, world-building; strong yet sensitive characterisation; awesome yet believable technology, thilling yet profound writing. Richard Morgan is set to join the genre's world-wide elite.

©2003 Richard Morgan (P)2005 Tantor Media Science Fiction Fiction Thought-Provoking War

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It was enjoyable enough but I preferred the 50's detective style of the first one.

Very different to the first book.

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After listening to Altered Carbon I saw the lukewarm reviews and decided not to get it. A few years later I changed my mind and in my view it is at least as good as its predecessor, if not better. The narration is first rate, the concepts are clever, and it's entertaining to listen to from start to finish.

Clever and wonderfully entertaining

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More Envoy enhanced adventures this time chasing ancient Martian relics. Rip snorting stuff! Worth the listen if you liked the style of Altered Carbon..

The Takeshi Kovaks saga continues

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This is the second book I’ve now listened to in this series, having just finished it I can’t think of anything I would really change, a few of the voices sounded a little out of place on a couple of occasions but, I guess that’s the same with every narrator and isn’t much of an issue.

In recollection I felt it took a little while to get going but once the story hooked me, The it just kept giving, right to the end!

Can’t wait to listen to the next!

Out of this world!

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Hats off to Richard Morgan on Takeshi Kovacs second outing! A great mixture of politics, philosophy and psychology with a sprinkle of sex and violence. Absolutely brilliant!

As good if not better than Altered Carbon

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If you enjoyed Altered Carbon this will not disappoint. Fast paced and full of action, you’ll need to keep your wits about you as this story gets quite immersive. Todd does a great job once again narrating and really brings out Takeshi as an interesting main character.

Morgan does it again

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I loved this book almost as good as the first one & the voice actor does a great job, I highly recommend but start with Altered Carbon.

Another great book cant wait to start the next one

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Well into the TK trilogy now and I’d say this bested the first which I really enjoyed but it certainly takes a different tone from the first book. Developed the world really well. Horrifying in places and you have to wonder about R.Morgan’s general psychology to come up with this stuff, but it’s Cyberpunk noir at its finest.

Excellent sequel. Great narration!

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I really enjoyed the first novel, and while the second has a very different fell its every bit as good. Solid story, a few throw backs to the first novel, but no enough that you need to have read the first to enjoy it. The universe that Morgan has created here is really interesting and I hope to see a few more books in this series

Another Great Read

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A little way in to this book, a whole bunch of characters are introduced all at once, several with similar sounding names (indecipherable for me in audio format), and nothing about any of them that really makes them stick. Having experienced a similar problem tracking the characters in Richard Morgan's Book 1 of this trilogy (Altered Carbon), I knew I would need to remember who was who if I were to appreciate the inevitable twists and turns... but the author does little to give any of the characters depth - they are all forgettable, don't care what happens to any of them. Fewer, more interesting characters that we can have a chance of caring about, and with distinct sounding names please! e.g. if the author sees this (which I doubt, but hey), I recommend he reads a Brandon Sanderson novel to learn how to make characters count.

It has put me off bothering with the third book, since it's not relaxing/fun to forever be rewinding the audio to earlier chapters (and there's no search function...) to try to figure out who's who. In the end this reads like an action movie - pretty dull, especially when the central sleeve / host concept is fascinating and has tonnes of psychological consequences that can be explored.

Thin characters, not well suited to audio format

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