Full Tide of Night

by J.R. Dunn

When the Erinye exchanged their human forms for virtual bodies and annihilated Earth, survivor Julia Amalfi had escaped to the frozen world of Midgard and made it habitable, and now, years later, as rebellion rages Midgard, a spaceship from Earth has been sighted, and Julia fears that their world once again must face the Erinye. Original.

Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy

312 pages, Hardcover

First published August 12, 1998

Reviews

[Craig · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a well written book with interesting characters and situations, but it moves at a pretty slow pace and seems to assume that the reader is better educated and smarter than I was. It has some lengthily described political philosophy that I thought bogged down the story a bit, too. I enjoyed having read it, but not the actual reading. It's my least favorite of the three Dunn books that I read, but fans of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi should definitely check it out.

[Sadie Yuly · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot of really great ideas and complex in this novel, to the point where it can be difficult to follow at times due to how many things are happening at once (both in terms of narrative and thematic content). This ability to have nuanced and complex analysis of certain concepts becomes muddied whenever overt political ideologies are explored. When this happens, the author’s clear bias comes out in a cheapened, overly simplified way, which basically boils down to: communism, socialism, Marxism = evil and its followers are mindless drones. The book also includes some odd contradictions, such as clearly being critical of authoritarianism, but then having idolization of some of history’s most brutal leaders, such as napoleon. Contains some very outdated and right-wing coded ideas such as alpha and beta males. That being said, despite the author being open regarding his conservative political views, this novel, overall, is more nuanced than one might expect, and the writing itself is very good. I likely would not have suspected how right-wing the author is simply from reading the book on its own.

[Anthony L · Rating 1 out of 5]

Incomprehensible!

[Kally · Rating 1 out of 5]

I read this book without reading the back. So, after finishing what read like fanfiction, I actually read the back and found out that's exactly what it was! It is a continuation of some other book written by another author. You probably need to read that original book to get half of the references in this one. But, even setting that aside, it still read like mediocre fan fiction. I was able to finish it, though I wasn't horribly motivated to.

[Matt · Rating 2 out of 5]

One of those books where I knew I was missing more than half of the literary and historical references that are ... well... the whole point of the work.

There was fair warning about that aspect of the book in the cover blurb, so caveat emptor applies.

[Jeremy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I dont remember reading this book