Woken Furies

Richard Morgan

"I wanted to read Woken Furies because it's the third book in a series of science fiction books revolving around this one character, Takeshi Kovacs. He's an ex-special ops kind of mercenary who has in the past taken over and gone to planets and quelled rebellions and things like that. So this is the third book in a really interesting series that takes you all across a very interesting galaxy.

The big catch about this universe that it takes place in is that in the future, humans have a little disk, a data stack that they have in the back of their head; so their personalities, their memories, their -- you could call it their soul is all stored in that data set. So when they die, or when the body dies, you can take that out and transfer it to another body. So it's a really interesting world, and it deals with a lot of interesting issues of what it means to be alive and what it means to live forever and things like that.

This is one of my favorite series, and this was a really strong book in the series. It may not necessarily be for the faint of heart. It's pretty gruesome and violent, but it's action packed, it has a lot of philosophical meanderings through lots of tricky places. I would give this book five out of five stars. It was very good, well written, action packed; it kept me very interested the entire way through."

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