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tessa_marie_writes's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.0
lillanaa's review against another edition
4.0
This book definitely hooked me, even though there were good and bad moments. The action was amazing, and the world? Perfection. But the characters felt like flat stereotypes at times, and there were definitely some issues with pacing and... Unfortunately, it felt difficult to get attached to anyone. The constant threat (and use) of character death throughout the book both made for fantastic tension and extreme letdown when you actually loved the character (rip, Pico :( ). All in all, one I'd recommend for the world and the action, not the character building.
aatiii's review against another edition
2.0
You’ve got to be a pretty hard core military sci-fi fan to enjoy this.
brian9teen's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
4.5
rkiladitis's review against another edition
5.0
A dystopian future where a ruined Earth is "terrafixed" and creates AI monsters? SIGN ME UP.
Maseo Kaytu is a young man with a past he wants to make up for, and sets his sights on the military to do it. But traditional military channels aren't open to a kid from a refugee camp, so Kaytu finds an alternate route: as a "cry pilot", the name given to pilots who take on suicide missions against some of the most horrifying monsters. He beats the odds, survives, and thrives in the infantry, where he forms close bonds with his fellow soldiers. But his platoon is sent up against a new, even worse monster - and the "patriots" that guard their homes against the military are just as much of a threat. Kaytu will have to re-evaluate everything he's gone into the military intending to carry out in order to stay alive.
Cry Pilot is near-unputdownable. It's solid sci-fi with monsters and mechs, phenomenal world-building, and a diverse group of characters I immediately bonded to. It's a Starship Troopers kind camaraderie (minus the overt propaganda/anti-war message), and fans of corporate military sci fi - think Peter Tieryas' United States of Japan and Mecha Samurai Empire, with a liberal splash of Pacific Rim - will eat this up.
The book is out today, and I've already been telling everyone I know about it for the last two weeks.
Maseo Kaytu is a young man with a past he wants to make up for, and sets his sights on the military to do it. But traditional military channels aren't open to a kid from a refugee camp, so Kaytu finds an alternate route: as a "cry pilot", the name given to pilots who take on suicide missions against some of the most horrifying monsters. He beats the odds, survives, and thrives in the infantry, where he forms close bonds with his fellow soldiers. But his platoon is sent up against a new, even worse monster - and the "patriots" that guard their homes against the military are just as much of a threat. Kaytu will have to re-evaluate everything he's gone into the military intending to carry out in order to stay alive.
Cry Pilot is near-unputdownable. It's solid sci-fi with monsters and mechs, phenomenal world-building, and a diverse group of characters I immediately bonded to. It's a Starship Troopers kind camaraderie (minus the overt propaganda/anti-war message), and fans of corporate military sci fi - think Peter Tieryas' United States of Japan and Mecha Samurai Empire, with a liberal splash of Pacific Rim - will eat this up.
The book is out today, and I've already been telling everyone I know about it for the last two weeks.
pmacg's review against another edition
4.0
"The G-damn bugs whacked us Johnny!" I think if you liked the movie where that quote came from, you'd like this book too.
chromatick's review against another edition
4.0
This was a solid military sci-fi story with some really cool ideas. The basics are that in the future earth has been ravaged by wars fought with bio-weapons. We are now trying to re-terraform the earth but in the process are waking up these bio-weapons that have now gone rogue. In order to combat these threats, soliders using special armored suits called CAVs, sacrifice themselves to try and battle these weapons.
So yeah, it's pretty dang cool. You get to follow the main character doing the whole enlisting and training thing. You get to watch him form bonds with his squad mates, and then you get some really cool action scenes....especially at the end of the book. This is some really good stuff. I enjoyed it! Bring on book two!
So yeah, it's pretty dang cool. You get to follow the main character doing the whole enlisting and training thing. You get to watch him form bonds with his squad mates, and then you get some really cool action scenes....especially at the end of the book. This is some really good stuff. I enjoyed it! Bring on book two!
shadowofadoubt89's review against another edition
3.0
I've been struggling to get through this book for a little while now, but I'm far enough through it to give a review I think.
I've been trying to read a lot of different genres recently to broaden my field of knowledge and such, but I wasn't really ready for how heavy of a science fiction read this was going to be.
It isn't a hard read really, but the made-up names and the subject matter (or at least the way the author describes it) is really confusing and hard to get into. I struggled to just get excited to read this one even though I thought it sounded good. I'm just not a huge kiju fan or cadet training sequences like the first part of the book was about. The story also moved really slowly for me and kept talking about things that I thought were kind of unnecessary and a little boring. Plus, the main characters lusting after one of his fellow cadets felt forced and pulled me out of the story.
I'm hoping I like the book more once I get to the end, but I won this through Goodreads a while back and felt I needed to do a review. So maybe my review will change once I finally get myself to finish this book, but I have a ton of other books and ARC's I've won that I'd rather read than this one at the moment, so this might be put on the back-burner for a while.
I've been trying to read a lot of different genres recently to broaden my field of knowledge and such, but I wasn't really ready for how heavy of a science fiction read this was going to be.
It isn't a hard read really, but the made-up names and the subject matter (or at least the way the author describes it) is really confusing and hard to get into. I struggled to just get excited to read this one even though I thought it sounded good. I'm just not a huge kiju fan or cadet training sequences like the first part of the book was about. The story also moved really slowly for me and kept talking about things that I thought were kind of unnecessary and a little boring. Plus, the main characters lusting after one of his fellow cadets felt forced and pulled me out of the story.
I'm hoping I like the book more once I get to the end, but I won this through Goodreads a while back and felt I needed to do a review. So maybe my review will change once I finally get myself to finish this book, but I have a ton of other books and ARC's I've won that I'd rather read than this one at the moment, so this might be put on the back-burner for a while.
distantplanet's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
catbooking's review against another edition
5.0
Military scifi? Check! Action? Check! Humor? Check! Diverse cast? Check! Bisexual protagonist? Surprise! Check! Gay and lesbian characters? Check! No sexist/racist/homophobic jokes? Check!
Bonus round! Are women's bodies described in a creepy sexual way? NO! I don't even know what anyone's nipples look like, even though they all spend plenty of time naked.
At this point I am afraid to learn that the author eats babies or something, because this is just a unicorn of a book that should not exist. I kept putting off reading because I didn't want the book to end.
Bonus round! Are women's bodies described in a creepy sexual way? NO! I don't even know what anyone's nipples look like, even though they all spend plenty of time naked.
At this point I am afraid to learn that the author eats babies or something, because this is just a unicorn of a book that should not exist. I kept putting off reading because I didn't want the book to end.