{"id":806,"date":"2003-09-19T23:33:51","date_gmt":"2003-09-19T23:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-806.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:18","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:18","slug":"richard-morgan-broken-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2003\/09\/19\/richard-morgan-broken-angels\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Morgan &#8211; <i>Broken Angels<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Broken Angels<\/i> is Richard Morgan&#8217;s second book, a follow-up to the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0752856464\/legenofthesun-21\/ref=nosim\/\"><i>Altered Carbon<\/i><\/a>.  Although they both feature the hard-bitten Takeshi Kovacs as the hero, they take very different tracks.  <i>Altered Carbon<\/i> was a dark, SF detective thriller; <i>Broken Angels<\/i> is a fast-moving treasure hunt adventure with mercenaries, greedy corporations, mysterious alien artefacts, sex, and guns.  Lots of guns.  Morgan&#8217;s writing is graphic and assured, and the plot rips along at a roaring pace.  There are a lot of twists and betrayals&#8211;perhaps <em>too<\/em> many for an action-based book like this.  Not all of them can be resolved during the climax, and so there is a long cool-down chapter afterwards, in which the characters have to <em>explain<\/em> everything that couldn&#8217;t be worked into the main plot. Nevertheless, it&#8217;s a cracking read&#8211;classic space adventure for the modern eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broken Angels is Richard Morgan&#8217;s second book, a follow-up to the excellent Altered Carbon. Although they both feature the hard-bitten Takeshi Kovacs as the hero, they take very different tracks. Altered Carbon was a dark, SF detective thriller; Broken Angels is a fast-moving treasure hunt adventure with mercenaries, greedy corporations, mysterious alien artefacts, sex, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books_4_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}