Steadily maintaining the same lightly humorous style, daredevil antics, and brisk action-driven pace, Mickey7 is back and sequelized. Of course, the man in no stranger to replication; in fact, that’s kind of his thing.
Mickey7 is a once professional and since retired Expendable colonizer of a distant world. Once he specialized in risky/impossible jobs and being brought back as a rebootable clone of sorts. But not anymore. Now Mickey’s retired from all that, enjoying the good life of mindless chores and spending time with his girlfriend, Nasha. Now the winter is coming…and if we learn one thing from seven season of Game of Thrones it’s that you gotta prepare for the winter. The retirement was only good until Mickey’s inimitable services are needed once again. Now he must go retrieve the bomb he left with the locals two years ago. Absolutely must as in the survival of the colonizing mission depends on it. And so once more into the…exoplanetary madness of it all. This time with a team, reluctant as they may be. Follow Mickey’s adventures amid the semi-hostile planet and its fascinating denizens. Follow the fun. And it is fun, Almost exactly as much fun as its predecessor, which is to say considerable amounts. Mickey’s story is slick and movie adaptation-ready. The characters have that winsome easy-breezy charm that almost seems glib, an action-flick devil-may-care attitude, always ready with a joke or spunky banter. It might be great art or great literature for that matter, but it’s very entertaining and enjoyable, well written with some nice world-building, and reads very, very quickly. No wonder it’s one of my favorite recent science fiction reads. Sometimes you just want pure snack food sort of fun and Mickey got oodles of it. And by the looks of it, is gearing to return in further adventures. Because, you know, colonizing a planet is complicated…and series from a marketing perspective are easy money. And I’d probably read the next one too, though I’m not much into series, because, you know, fun. Recommended. Thanks Netgalley.
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