Excellent second installment in Takeshi Kovacs series. Plenty of action, twists and turns and just as you think you got it all comes the biggest turn ever :-) Highly recommended. ( )

After the fantastic, 'Altered Carbon', it was straight into this, the second book in the trilogy.   And after 'Altered Carbon' i had exceptionally high hopes for this book, which, admittedly, one should maybe not do, but one can but hope.   Did it meet the expectations?

Not quite.

But i certainly wasn't disappointed.   Like 'Altered Carbon', it kept me turning the pages, but whereas 'Altered Carbon' is set on Earth, 'Broken Angels' is set on a planet far, far away.   And its that one single difference that, for me at least, lets this book down a tiny, tiny bit.   I just didn't feel involved any more, because it's so far out from the world as i know it that it doesn't capture me like a book set on Earth does.

Normally one doesn't notice these things.   Usually a sci-fi trilogy is set solely on other planets in a different time with lots of the same characters re-appearing, and it all just flows nicely and feels complete within itself.   But this jump from a story based mostly on Earth, with towns and places that we can all relate to, to being based completely on another planet, far, far away, with only one common character, is like reading something that's not a trilogy any more.

Having said that though, it's still a good book.   But it's just not the flowing trilogy that i had hoped for and expected from the first book.   As the saying goes... 'Expectation is the mother of all fuck ups'.

Yeah, maybe i shouldn't have expected that, and to be fair, this book does point out that if you don't have any expectations and then you will be ready to deal with anything.

Anyways, now i'm not expecting anything with the third book, 'Woken Furies', but more of Takeshi Kovacs running amok while killing lots of people, causing lots of mayhem and thinking lots of philosophical points to justify doing so along the way.   And he's already doing that in the first 10 pages.

Although, maybe i lied.   I do expect a couple more rampant sex scenes written into this and i'll be quite disappointed if they're not there.   Both the first two books have had 2 very descriptive and very inventive sex scenes, so this book had better do as well.

All in all though, to sum it up, a very good read if you like lots of death, mayhem, corporate villains, with some highly descriptive sex scenes thrown in.   Oh, and i almost forgot... there's even some Martians as well -- yeah, like real Martians. ( )

Je n'avais pas trop apprécié [b:Altered Carbon|40445|Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)|Richard K. Morgan|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1375223500s/40445.jpg|2095852] que j'avais trouvé trop grandiloquent, trop cinématique. Anges déchus me plait plus : le style de Morgan se prête mieux à l'aventure paramilitaire qu'à l'enquête discrète. Ici, les explosions, les espaces, les combats sont plus grandioses, l'intrigue est moins "subtile".

En gros l'histoire consiste en la recherche archéologique autour d'une antique porte martienne. Les conglomérats et les armées tueraient pour ce qu'il y a derrière. Il faudra donc trouver un soutien suffisant (à la fois financier et stratégique) pour l'ouvrir.

Ça se lit vite et ça ne laisse pas de trace. ( )

Takeshi Kovacs is a great character, but here his cynicism was a bit much for me. It’s been years since I read Altered Carbon, the first book in the series, but I remember the character and narrative voice working better, there. It had a hard boiled quality that felt at home in the story.

Broken Angels falls into a different genre, I think: military SF. There were tons of characters, many of whom had clunky introductions and insufficient “screen time” to build sympathy. It all feels like a rushed follow-up to fulfill a two-book contract. (I have no idea if he actually had a two-book contract.)

In another few years, I’ll probably spot Woken Furies up on the shelf and pull it down when I need something thrilling and adventuresome. Morgan lays a lot of groundwork here for interesting stories about ancient alien cultures and more post-human weirdness. ( )

Author took a weird choice shifting from a cyberpunk detective novel to like a cyberpunk indiana jones. Made some elements feel a little more forced, however also let him world-build again this time looking at the future of war as opposed to the future of capitalism ( )