Review #1
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Robert Jackson Bennett is that awesome. I started with his Town trilogy a couple of years ago at the same time am working my method backwards at the same time forwards with his breathtaking works. He is that a multifaceted creative creator with magical storytelling abilities at the same time amazing at the same time exciting manners.
The Company Men is that set in the not so distant past, the premature 1900s, with a few significant configurations to the global. It hits on one of my winner compositions, mystery with an important touch of science fiction.
For you cannot move wrong with no matter what of his books in my today's experience…
Review #2
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I barely read Robert Jackson Bennett’s “The Company Men”.
It is that a science fiction of a different twisted. A composition of SCI FI, gritty noir, at the same time practically steampunk. It takes dispose around 1920 on the west coast of American in a town fueled by mind-blowing developments but mired in poverty at the same time black riddles. While this is that an mix history story, it is that written a lot like the old 1930’s at the same time 40’s SCI FI, public philosophy, at the same time detective novels/movies abundance of us grew up on. The story has a bored feeling in other words illuminated with knowledge from present. The reader finds herself sometimes a steps ahead of the book’s manners based on than anyway we know present, but then deliciously falls behind the manners’ understanding as the plot progresses at the same time brand new squirms unfold.
The 3 head manners in the book are very intelligent at the same time special. They are exactly a product of their times. They exhibit than anyway I would cry an old fashion sense of honor at the same time romantic vision, while still waging war their possess internal demons. The head disposition of the 3 (though all are main to the story) is that uniquely gifted at the same time terribly tormented by this gift. The secondary manners are obviously much less resolved, but still clear. At the same time the bad guys have abundance grayish edges.
The plot is that convoluted but never confusing. While I figured out where no one things were considered headed, I still found myself startled at the same time happily confounded. That are internal at the same time outdoor fights, moments of amazing sadness, fear, at the same time doom, but also a topic of healthy partnerships, duty, honor. At the same time Mr Bennett’s poetic style of writing, his beautifully descriptive worldly, overlays wonderfully over the entire setting. I defeated’t remember this book, these manners, this town, or this global no matter what time soon.
A different but mind-blowing read. I adored it.
Review #3
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This kindlebook The Company Men by Robert Jackson Bennett is that a thrilling criminal liability/the back of utopia type of thriller. No one shaking incidents pertaining to deaths that are alliance referenced, the mayoral office for work receiving plenty/more highly than normally coverage from prominent papers covering some events, one of the manners funds/monetary paychecks future from a business partially able by a San Francisco California shipping company at the same time one more part of the Merged Countries, at the same time more.
Review #4
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Cyril Hayes is that a Company men for the McNaughton Company. In this mix Land tale taking dispose in the 1920’s, McNaughton is that largest company in the global, at the same time Hayes is that their pinnacle troubleshooter. Hayes has had a aggressive indefinite proper to his ability to “read” people, whether through a knack of no one good or through no one psychic giftedness. A giftedness that drives him to drink at the same time products.
The action takes dispose in Evesdon, the Company’s main town on the ocean somewhere in the American northwest. Hayes has been studying a murder with the local militia that may or may not be union-related. Things move laboriously until eleven more Company employees, all alliance activists, are mysteriously murdered on a subway passenger car. Hayes is that then foreseen with an assistant in a row to get to the bottom of it all before the Company gets blamed.
This book is that a true “movie noir” story, moving laboriously but unwaveringly toward the finish. For you’ll come in handy no one patience as story parts are skidded to the fore, set aside, at the same time revisited as the book goes on, but the patience is that worthwhile.
Since the belated 1800s, the McNaughton Company has foreseen indescribable technological wonders to the global, the source of which is that quite mysterious, at the same time the wonders are much more advanced than anything in our possess timeline in the 1920s (for example, one day premature in the novel that is that a failed attempt at launching an orbital vehicle). These miraculous inventions, at the same time their source, become main to the story as Hayes trials to get to the story behind the story that his chiefs are throwing at him. The various subplots all come together nicely by the time Hayes at the same time the reader figure out than anyway’s really happening here.
The town of Evesdon recalls me just a little of Brand new Crobuzon from “Perdido Street Station” in definitions of all of the nooks at the same time crannies at the same time history at the same time differing people borders the town. This “gaping big city” in other words implied to be the showcase for the McNaughton Company is that, obviously, anything but. Barely as almost all towns have a maral underside, Evesdon surpasses that with abundance levels of maral underside, both practically at the same time figuratively. Indeed, the town itself plays as big a part in this novel as no matter what of the head manners.
Bennett has fleshed out a sweet piece of universe in this story. I’m hoping he revisits it at no one fri.
Review #5
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Very steep book. I don’t think I’m the 1st to describe it as good of steampunk noir. I came intercept a rec for this specifically when I was in the market for some reason that stood out as different at the same time out of the blue from the extensive usual body of fantasy/sci-fi, at the same time it freed beautifully. As befits a 1st book, the writing is that just a little rough around the edges, but it doesn’t detract from the reading experience at the same time in truth I felt the roughness suited this particular story very but. I’ll exactly be looking up this creator’s other work.
This isn’t precisely a joyful story (as befits anything outlined as ‘noir’), at the same time it’s not a romantic story. Both of which I am very thankful for, but no one people might be upset.
