Hammer of Angels A Novel of Shadowstorm G T Almasi Books
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Hammer of Angels A Novel of Shadowstorm G T Almasi Books
Alix Nico is back! The super-charged, enhanced teenage super agent we met in G.T.Almasi's Blades of Winter is back for more high octane butt kicking. In case you missed the first installment, you'll have to reorient your historical perspective. In this world, WW2 turned out a bit differently, with Nazi Germany controlling most of Europe, and still setting its sights on larger plans. But Nico and her pals stand in the way.Nico is an enhanced human, with enough chemical, mechanical, and electronic enhancements to make her a formidable weapon. As in Blades of Winter, Nico leaves quite a trail of destruction wherever she goes. In hopes of thwarting the Nazi's human cloning program, and finding out the truth about her father's death, she pulls no punches.
Almasi writes with non-stop action, a sarcastic, big-shot attitude, and a preference for violently exploding bad guys. Who am I to argue with kicking some Nazi butt? Like I said about Blades of Winter, Hammer of Angels is an action movie in print. Good stuff!
Thanks to Edelweiss and the publisher for the complimentary electronic review copy!
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Hammer of Angels A Novel of Shadowstorm G T Almasi Books Reviews
I have read Blades of Winter and the sequel Hammer of Angels. Both books are beautifully written, an exciting read, and very well researched. It is a definite page turner. If you are into one of the best reads of the season, you must buy this book Hammer of Angels by this exciting new author.
This 2nd book in this series (and I hope there is a third one in the works) follows super-secret-spy-techno punk (cyper punk?) gal Agent Scarlet as she and her Spy Posse of the Awesomeness are released within the European countries for some rescue and reconnaissance and mayhem.
I really enjoy the modern alternate historical setting of the novel and the action is well paced, as usual. The characters are easy to follow - not much in the way of development but that doesn't detract from the novel. I really don't need ultra details on why a character does this or that or wears this or that - and I find myself laughing at certain funny moments or sentences that pop up in the novel. G.T. Almasi has taken a world full of spies, counter-intelligence, gadgets and history and tossed them all in the proverbial blender for a pleasure filled read.
Highly recommend “Hammer of Angels” to anyone who enjoys fast-paced action novels.
I read Blades of Winter A Novel of the Shadowstorm and loved it. So, I was super-eager to read the followup novel, Hammer of Angels.
I just finished the book, and I enjoyed it a lot. I would like to know why Almasi kept jerking us around with the release date, though, that date bounced around more than one of Alix's energized attacks hyped up on Madrenaline. >_<
Anyway, this sequel takes place almost immediately after the events of Blades of Winter, and Almasi doesn't really spend any time catching the reader up on what was explained about the world in the first book, or events from the first book, so, I STRONGLY recommend you read Blades of Winter, the first book, before reading Hammer of Angels, the second book. This isn't like Original Series Star Trek where each episode is its own contained story with very little continuity between episodes. This is like Deep Space Nine Star Trek, where you will be UTTERLY LOST if you miss a single episode (how's THAT for nerd cred! ^_^)
I still love Alix, and the book is still entertaining. I also still appreciate the go-go-go pacing of the story, and I think most of the main characters are fleshed out enough so that they aren't just clichéd cardboard props in an action movie story.
However, that being said, [warning, generic, mild spoilers] I disagree with the romantic decisions made in this book. I understand loneliness, and battlefield necessity, and also the strange circumstances that the characters find themselves in, but I think that ultimately it robs the first story from a lot of the impact it had. [/end generic, mild spoilers]
I DO, however, STRONGLY approve of the toned-down violence in this book. Compared to the first book, this one is almost PG-13. There is one torture scene in the book, but it is of a gestapo Nazi, and while he is hurt, he isn't mangled or violated, and I have a HARD time feeling sorry for the Gestapo (shocking, I know).
Overall, the pacing of the book is excellent, the story is interesting, the characters are believable and funny, and the danger always feels real -- but not so real that you lose the enjoyment of the story. I grieve for poor Alix, as she has to endure so much, but I am also very proud of her. I want Alix to win, and I want her to be happy, and I also want her to be able to rest for a while, and heal. Hopefully, in book three, she will be coming off a nice long healing rest, and she will be able to kick butt again to maximum levels!
4.5 stars. This book was ALMOST a 5 star book, but not quite. The gripes I had with it weighed it down enough to deny it the perfect rating. 4.5 stars is still very respectable, though. I am only rating it 4 stars in 's rating system, because I have to, but this is a solid 4.5 book.
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Book Content Guide For Parents
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Sex & Nudity [3/5] there is a scene where a female character takes her shirt off and stays that way for a while (in a non-sexual context) -- she comments on her nudity in her own internal dialog (fairly crassly), and several other characters also comment on it. Characters talk about sex, and sex is commented as having happened in very vague terms. If the nudity had been brief, I would say it was PG-13 stuff, but since it stays "on screen" for a while, I guess it is R-rated stuff.
Violence & Gore [4/5] pretty standard PG-13/R-rated movie stuff. People get blown up, driven oven, shot, stabbed, have body parts ripped off, etc. Most of the fight scenes involve people being stabbed or shot to death. There is a mild torture scene in chapter 37, it is pretty brief, and it is a Nazi Gestapo officer being tortured. I do not approve of torture, but nothing grossly violent is done to the man, he isn't violated, and he isn't mangled/mutilated -- just hurt.
Profanity [4/5] its bad, but not as bad as the first book. All of the "big 4" make it in to the book, along with quite a few liberal uses of M-Fer, and similar. Pretty much what you might expect from an R-rated action movie.
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking [4/5] its pretty bad in this department as well. Alix picks up smoking in this book to help her deal with stress, and several other characters smoke as well. Alcohol is abused liberally in the book. No illegal drugs (by United States standards anyway) are abused in the book, or even talked about as far as I recall.
Frightening/Intense Scenes [3.5/5] there are quite a few intense scenes, but not many of them are frightening (aside from the brief torture scene in chapter 37). Alix has competently proven herself to be almost invincible by this second book, and she is also the viewpoint character for the book, so if she dies, the book ends. So, I was pretty much never worried that she would die, I was only worried the people she cared about might die. There are a few hairy scenes in the book where some very close calls happen, but that is the spice of life that makes these kinds of books so great!
If there was any serious quibble I could have had with this book's predecessor, "Blades of Winter," it might be that it was so fizzy, so busy, I COULDN'T quibble with it. It was a video game writ large, and meant to be enjoyed in a spirit of sheer escapism. This I certainly did.
But with this book, something different is going on. While undeniably escapist (I lost track of the cartoon-y body count) the heart of "Hammer" is deep and serious. For example, 1981 versions of Anne and Margot Frank -- the women they might have been, had Hitler actually been assassinated in 1942 -- play important roles. Justice, bloody and extreme, is served to a new version of the SS and Gestapo.
And our narrator, Alix Nico ("Scarlet"), through as quippy and deadly as ever, is coping with a serious case of PTSD. Her role in this outing is to disrupt the Greater Germany that has enslaved Europe since the end of WW II. She disappears into England and France, ready to rain vengeance on German slaveholders, yet still dealing with heartbreak over the loss of her partner Trick, and her father, "Big Bertha." She is damaged this time around, and it makes us care about her more.
As always, author Almasi's wordplay and humor help defuse the constant ass-kicking his team of Levels deliver. Yet underneath it all, I felt the soul of Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" -- the desire to deliver the justice that real history denied us. True, Alix sounds like no 20-year old girl I've ever known; but the silly romp has become surprisingly relevant , and I can't quibble with that.
Alix Nico is back! The super-charged, enhanced teenage super agent we met in G.T.Almasi's Blades of Winter is back for more high octane butt kicking. In case you missed the first installment, you'll have to reorient your historical perspective. In this world, WW2 turned out a bit differently, with Nazi Germany controlling most of Europe, and still setting its sights on larger plans. But Nico and her pals stand in the way.
Nico is an enhanced human, with enough chemical, mechanical, and electronic enhancements to make her a formidable weapon. As in Blades of Winter, Nico leaves quite a trail of destruction wherever she goes. In hopes of thwarting the Nazi's human cloning program, and finding out the truth about her father's death, she pulls no punches.
Almasi writes with non-stop action, a sarcastic, big-shot attitude, and a preference for violently exploding bad guys. Who am I to argue with kicking some Nazi butt? Like I said about Blades of Winter, Hammer of Angels is an action movie in print. Good stuff!
Thanks to Edelweiss and the publisher for the complimentary electronic review copy!
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