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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">In Fury Born - David Weber</h1>
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2020-06-20
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/review/">#review</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/scifi/">#scifi</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/fantasy/">#fantasy</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books-2020/">#books:2020</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/published-2006/">#published:2006</a>
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/130528.In_Fury_Born">GoodReads Summary</a>:
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Imperial Intelligence couldn't find them, the Imperial Fleet couldn't catch
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them, and local defenses couldn't stop them. It seemed the planet-wrecking
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pirates were invincible. But they made a big mistake when they raided
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ex-commando leader Alicia DeVries' quiet home work, tortured and murdered her
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family, and then left her for dead. Alicia decided to turn "pirate" herself,
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and stole a cutting-edge AI ship from the Empire to start her vendetta. Her
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fellow veterans think she's gone crazy, the Imperial Fleet has shoot-on-sight
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orders. And of course the pirates want her dead, too. But Alicia DeVries has
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two allies nobody knows about, allies as implacable as she is: a self-aware
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computer, and a creature from the mists of Old Earth's most ancient legends.
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And this trio of furies won't rest until vengeance is served.</p>
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★☆☆☆☆
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<li>(--) The beginning of the book puts a lot of backstory, all in the wrong
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places: You're in the middle of a conversation, the conversation stops, a
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lot of stuff is thrown at your face and... the conversation just
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continues. Where did you stop? What where they were discussing?</li>
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<li>(--) In between backstories, there is a bunch of characters. Characters and
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more characters are thrown in the story, perform something small,
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disappear for a while, and suddenly appear again and who the heck was
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that? Did they mentioned them before? Worse, some names are so close you
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don't even know if it is a new character or an old one.</li>
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<li>(-) The first battles are too long and provide nothing about the future.</li>
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<li>(--) I don't have a problem with mixing scifi with fantasy,
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but you have to build an universe for that (sad to say, but something akin
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to "<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5519340/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1">Bright</a>"), but
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when you suddenly add a Greek spirit... everything seems to fall apart.</li>
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<li>(+) Some points are really well constructed. For example, there is a
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discussion between three characters and you don't need descriptions to
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know who's talking; their tone and words make things clear.</li>
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<li>(=) The pacing only gets convincing the end, when everything is done.</li>
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<p>Honestly, it could be a good story, if the spirit was removed, the backstories
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cleaned out, some stuff that doesn't affect anything in the long run (pointing
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that they happened, with short summary would suffice) and make it shorter
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would be a real improvement.</p>
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