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Concrete Chaos
World renowned motorcycle racing champion Sue Zay is no stranger to risk. Armed with a quick wit and a foul mouth, she's ridden her ancient superbike to the ends of the globe in an eternal quest for speed.
But when a chance encounter with a deadly terrorist group leads to half of Silicon Valley trying to put a bullet in Sue Zay's pretty head; she’ll have to save her city by trusting her motorcycle, and her irritatingly responsible AI buddy.
If she fails, the deadly organization that threatens Silicon Valley won’t just kill her. They’ll kill everyone on the planet.
But when a chance encounter with a deadly terrorist group leads to half of Silicon Valley trying to put a bullet in Sue Zay's pretty head; she’ll have to save her city by trusting her motorcycle, and her irritatingly responsible AI buddy.
If she fails, the deadly organization that threatens Silicon Valley won’t just kill her. They’ll kill everyone on the planet.
196 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 7, 2016
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February 22, 2018Cover lust!
July 6, 2017
While the first chapter was exciting with a motorcycle chase, I didn't like Sue Zay or her friends. The dialogue was pretty awful and the characters were very one-dimensional. It's also chock full of unnecessary profanity, which didn't add to the story and just made the characters sound juvenile and immature.
November 14, 2017
Ok, this book was cool for sure, but way overdone. I mean, half the stuff this girl does isn't even done in superhero movies. So, definitely a big minus on the believable front.
With that said though, I have to say, if the scyfy series dark Angel and the rogue angel series combined, you might wind up with a character like this one.
She's got a motorcycle with more features than windows has bugs, and she's more fit than some world champion gymnists, but she doesn't know any marshal arts, yet she still manages to pull off moves that would make hollywood stuntmen jealous. A fun escapist type story for sure, and definitely something worth reading if you're looking for fantastic unbelievable action, and a series that promises to be anything but mundane.
Steer clear if you want normal average everyday people doing normal everyday things, because this girl is going to be anything but normal.
Honestly, I enjoyed the story, but probably would have enjoyed it more if this girl wasn't so overpowered for a normal everyday person. Having her have to work her way out of some of her situations instead of just powering through like she does would likely have made this a better story, but I understand folks really like normal people doing heroic things, and that's fine if that's your type of thing, I just think toning it down a bit would make her more human, and produce a far superior story.
With that said though, I have to say, if the scyfy series dark Angel and the rogue angel series combined, you might wind up with a character like this one.
She's got a motorcycle with more features than windows has bugs, and she's more fit than some world champion gymnists, but she doesn't know any marshal arts, yet she still manages to pull off moves that would make hollywood stuntmen jealous. A fun escapist type story for sure, and definitely something worth reading if you're looking for fantastic unbelievable action, and a series that promises to be anything but mundane.
Steer clear if you want normal average everyday people doing normal everyday things, because this girl is going to be anything but normal.
Honestly, I enjoyed the story, but probably would have enjoyed it more if this girl wasn't so overpowered for a normal everyday person. Having her have to work her way out of some of her situations instead of just powering through like she does would likely have made this a better story, but I understand folks really like normal people doing heroic things, and that's fine if that's your type of thing, I just think toning it down a bit would make her more human, and produce a far superior story.
September 24, 2017
Great futuristic book! Some spelling errors that pulled me away from the magic, but definitely a series I'll be following. Extremely fast-paced, this tells the story of Sue Zay, a motorcycle racer, as she learns about, and tries to stop some terrorists. She is joined by a band of sisters-under-the-skin, an AI that she has programmed to speak with an Australian accent, and a counterrevolutionary with his own special squad. This book really had me leaning around corners with Sue Way. Great writing!
June 18, 2018
Interesting new cycle heroine
Based on the motor cycle culture and some hard paced thriller action then this is a great story for the beginning of a series. MSEs writing is a mix of danger and character focus on our heroine a resentive rich girl who has a perchant for dangerous bike stunts. When she finds herself caught up in a secretive groups vigilante activities led by a mysterious sexy stranger she has no choice but to rip the roads up on her bike helping her new intrepid friends protect the city.
A cracker of a page turner and definitely worth looking at book 2
Based on the motor cycle culture and some hard paced thriller action then this is a great story for the beginning of a series. MSEs writing is a mix of danger and character focus on our heroine a resentive rich girl who has a perchant for dangerous bike stunts. When she finds herself caught up in a secretive groups vigilante activities led by a mysterious sexy stranger she has no choice but to rip the roads up on her bike helping her new intrepid friends protect the city.
A cracker of a page turner and definitely worth looking at book 2
October 20, 2017
What Fun!
After reading the space justice books so far to book 6 I couldn’t see how you could top that. However although this book did not seem particularly interesting his writing was good enough to attract me to giving it a shot. Boy, am I glad I did; this book was another page turner the characters were fun and I just couldn’t put it down till I was finished. I am looking forward to the next installment. Highly recommended fornon-prude action junkies.
After reading the space justice books so far to book 6 I couldn’t see how you could top that. However although this book did not seem particularly interesting his writing was good enough to attract me to giving it a shot. Boy, am I glad I did; this book was another page turner the characters were fun and I just couldn’t put it down till I was finished. I am looking forward to the next installment. Highly recommended fornon-prude action junkies.
April 15, 2018
Fun & quirky, a little over the top, as some mentioned, but with interesting views of a region I am very familiar with. Some impossible physical feats for a baseline human. Might have been better if she were augmented or enhanced in some manner. I do like the main character and will read book 2.
FYI, if you like M-CE's work, check-out his Rockstar Romance series.
FYI, if you like M-CE's work, check-out his Rockstar Romance series.
January 17, 2022
What a ride!
This was a slam-bang of a novel!
The protagonist is unique in that they are female, strong willed, very intelligent and rides a classic gasoline hog (kitted out with some sweet tech).
The story arc and settings are interesting and have enough detail that you want to follow.
I did receive a copy in a book giveaway.
This was a slam-bang of a novel!
The protagonist is unique in that they are female, strong willed, very intelligent and rides a classic gasoline hog (kitted out with some sweet tech).
The story arc and settings are interesting and have enough detail that you want to follow.
I did receive a copy in a book giveaway.
February 12, 2018
A fun exciting read
November 24, 2023
Motorcycle action for entire book. Lots of tech applications including AI. Fun romp against terrorizes. P
August 24, 2024
I have been thinking about reading more of this book, but I still haven’t picked it up because I don’t want to read more. I’m dreading it every time I think about it. So, this is just going to go into the DNF pile. I don’t want to say that this is a good representation of the cyberpunk genre, but if this is how it is, I’m scared to read Cinder.
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January 1, 2024
I really wanted to like this one but I had a hard time getting past the ametureish nature of everything from the prose to the dialogue to the characters to the action to the... all of it. This reads like the creative writing project of a 17-year-old edgelord who is trying rally hard to be an author and kind of succeeding but also not. It's not terrible, but it's not good and so very cringe
February 14, 2017
This book is fairly enjoyable and I would have given it 3 stars but for a couple things. I'm just a regular white dude who likes cyberpunk fiction a lot. But it seems to me that the character while diverging from "normal' or classic cyberpunk fiction (which is great), is pretty uneven. She's badass but always somehow manages to come off 1 dimensional. She always refers to her friends as her "bitches", she pretty much doesn't give a crap about any man save one, and then it's a hyper sexual focus on just that one person. Being a guy, from my lens, this reads off to me. Bringing me to my next point. It's ironic the author even mentions this plot thread in this manner:
"There was an organization trying to pit Mormons and Muslims against each other? It sounded like the obvious plot of a shitty B movie."
I'm sure later on this is unraveled to not be the case. However at 76% percent, I stopped reading. Why? Even more of a reason this didn't get 3 stars though is the double slam against Muslim faith. I get that it's a hot topic right now, but this is the future. Why is it so hard for people to get that Muslim faith is not synonymous with suicide bombers. We already know these people are not following that faith, but in this future anytime Muslim faith is brought up, it's followed by either suicide bombers or talk about arms. At one point Sue Zay, the main protagonist, is talking with one of her friends who is Muslim, and she just happens to describe a gun in complete detail. When asked how she knows this about the weapon the response is, "I'm Muslim!" This was a what the actual fuck moment for me. Then later on there's talk about bombing and someone else says:
"It could happen." Caleb shrugged, "but they would have to physically put someone on the train to plug into the terminal. Even if they got past the armed guards in the engine room, it would be a suicide mission after the train crashed." He shrugged.
"Suicide isn't outside of Muslim beliefs," Emma said with a shrug.
Annnnd I'm done. Part of cyberpunk is extrapolating what these things look like in the future and if you're going to be making light of any faith, you ought to contextualize it. But especially this need for American writers to work in the Muslim terrorist angles is just old hat, and it does not fit in a futuristic world, and if you want it to, explain to me what these religions are like - what they've become - whatever.
To end on a positive note though, I don't have a problem with the writing. It's vulgar, it's fun. The protagonist is a bit flat but can't be slapped into an ordinary default of male author characters. It's a good time, and especially the parts about biker gangs and the use of Asian colloquial terms for them, was neat. I liked that it was an all girl team that kicked ass on their futuristic bikes and I liked the racing sequences a lot.
"Funakoshi and I floated across the freeway for a handful of agonizing seconds, and the world seemed to suddenly become silent. The cars weren't around me, the freeway wasn't under me, and Hogan wasn't yelling at me. It was just Dad and I riding through the Sierra Nevadas on the back of Funakoshi, laughing. I had my arms around his muscular stomach, and he would tell me to squeeze tighter so he could go faster. I buried my helmet into his back and giggled when I felt the engine roar underneath us. Damn it, Dad. Why did you die? Then everything caught and snapped forward."
But in the end the above stuff did made me stop reading it. And for a while actually pissed me off. Maybe things get better with the next books, who knows.
"There was an organization trying to pit Mormons and Muslims against each other? It sounded like the obvious plot of a shitty B movie."
I'm sure later on this is unraveled to not be the case. However at 76% percent, I stopped reading. Why? Even more of a reason this didn't get 3 stars though is the double slam against Muslim faith. I get that it's a hot topic right now, but this is the future. Why is it so hard for people to get that Muslim faith is not synonymous with suicide bombers. We already know these people are not following that faith, but in this future anytime Muslim faith is brought up, it's followed by either suicide bombers or talk about arms. At one point Sue Zay, the main protagonist, is talking with one of her friends who is Muslim, and she just happens to describe a gun in complete detail. When asked how she knows this about the weapon the response is, "I'm Muslim!" This was a what the actual fuck moment for me. Then later on there's talk about bombing and someone else says:
"It could happen." Caleb shrugged, "but they would have to physically put someone on the train to plug into the terminal. Even if they got past the armed guards in the engine room, it would be a suicide mission after the train crashed." He shrugged.
"Suicide isn't outside of Muslim beliefs," Emma said with a shrug.
Annnnd I'm done. Part of cyberpunk is extrapolating what these things look like in the future and if you're going to be making light of any faith, you ought to contextualize it. But especially this need for American writers to work in the Muslim terrorist angles is just old hat, and it does not fit in a futuristic world, and if you want it to, explain to me what these religions are like - what they've become - whatever.
To end on a positive note though, I don't have a problem with the writing. It's vulgar, it's fun. The protagonist is a bit flat but can't be slapped into an ordinary default of male author characters. It's a good time, and especially the parts about biker gangs and the use of Asian colloquial terms for them, was neat. I liked that it was an all girl team that kicked ass on their futuristic bikes and I liked the racing sequences a lot.
"Funakoshi and I floated across the freeway for a handful of agonizing seconds, and the world seemed to suddenly become silent. The cars weren't around me, the freeway wasn't under me, and Hogan wasn't yelling at me. It was just Dad and I riding through the Sierra Nevadas on the back of Funakoshi, laughing. I had my arms around his muscular stomach, and he would tell me to squeeze tighter so he could go faster. I buried my helmet into his back and giggled when I felt the engine roar underneath us. Damn it, Dad. Why did you die? Then everything caught and snapped forward."
But in the end the above stuff did made me stop reading it. And for a while actually pissed me off. Maybe things get better with the next books, who knows.
April 15, 2018
Great book!
Lots of action! Races with fights to the death on the streets, great main character, awesome fighting abilities.... great first book!
Lots of action! Races with fights to the death on the streets, great main character, awesome fighting abilities.... great first book!
January 22, 2017
Action packed
Michael-Scott Earle has done it again. I love his books. He creates wonderful characters and stories filled with lots of action. The only thing I don't care for is the bad language which makes me want to get out a bar of soap. If you like fantasy/syfi with lots of action you will love this book.
Michael-Scott Earle has done it again. I love his books. He creates wonderful characters and stories filled with lots of action. The only thing I don't care for is the bad language which makes me want to get out a bar of soap. If you like fantasy/syfi with lots of action you will love this book.
December 3, 2016
Action-packed!
This fast paced, action packed novel kept me engaged from the beginning! Terrific blend of futuristic sci-fi, action, and even a little romance! My only caution is for those who are a bit delicate. The raunchy language and imagery could be offensive.
This fast paced, action packed novel kept me engaged from the beginning! Terrific blend of futuristic sci-fi, action, and even a little romance! My only caution is for those who are a bit delicate. The raunchy language and imagery could be offensive.
December 25, 2016
Excellent, action packed.
February 1, 2017
Concrete and Big Tires
Very fast paced, very accurate descriptions of bike riding, felt like I was back on my 750 Honda (k2) again. A great mind movie, can't wait for more.
Very fast paced, very accurate descriptions of bike riding, felt like I was back on my 750 Honda (k2) again. A great mind movie, can't wait for more.
May 28, 2020
Despite alot of swearing (which fits the grittiness of the cyperpunk world) very good, fast paced, action packed cyberpunk read.
August 27, 2017
Biker chick (kick-a** heroine of the type I love), AI, assassins, action, thrills, adventure. Wow this book has it all - and it's all fun. Most definitely recommended.
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September 20, 2017Ridiculous. .. in a good way.
I got this book because of the cover.
I wasn't the biggest fan of the inside. I didn't connect with the character. However, if you are looking for a book about super fast bikes and crazy driving min the future. This is perfect. I can't fault the writer for my preferences.
I got this book because of the cover.
I wasn't the biggest fan of the inside. I didn't connect with the character. However, if you are looking for a book about super fast bikes and crazy driving min the future. This is perfect. I can't fault the writer for my preferences.
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