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A review by vinayvasan
Resistance by John Birmingham
4.0
World building and character development usually make up middle books in a lot of series and the challenge that middle books usually face is to make it compelling enough without compromising on the pace of the story and letting the book bog down. Given that, it is indeed awesome that in Resistance, John Birmingham achieves both with aplomb
New enemies are introduced and the world of the invaders is built up to showcase them as canny operators even if they are technologically behind humans. As far as character development goes, Dave Hopper uses his power like an ordinary human being would do which is to make the best of his abilities to benefit himself without a care for the rest until events conspire to make him use his abilities to help the world or as much as he can. The secondary characters are also given ample room to grow and most of them are actually incorporated organically. A new character having the same power as Dave is introduced as well which seems to come a bit abruptly and the central conflict is pushed aside to an extent because of that. But it definitely does broaden the horizons of the story and makes one excited for book 3
New enemies are introduced and the world of the invaders is built up to showcase them as canny operators even if they are technologically behind humans. As far as character development goes, Dave Hopper uses his power like an ordinary human being would do which is to make the best of his abilities to benefit himself without a care for the rest until events conspire to make him use his abilities to help the world or as much as he can. The secondary characters are also given ample room to grow and most of them are actually incorporated organically. A new character having the same power as Dave is introduced as well which seems to come a bit abruptly and the central conflict is pushed aside to an extent because of that. But it definitely does broaden the horizons of the story and makes one excited for book 3