The Liquid Cool Series Box Set:

Liquid Cool #1-3

by Austin Dragon

A Sci Fi Noir Thriller Series To Keep You on the Edge of Your Seat! Liquid Cool is the action-packed (and funny), sci fi detective series. Over 1,000 pages includes These Mean Streets, Darkly (prequel), Liquid Cool (Book 1), Blade Gunner (Book 2) and NeuroDancer (Book 3)!In the first boxed set of the sci fi/cyberpunk detective thriller series, author Austin Dragon shows why you never want to meet a cyborg in a dark alley. There is plenty of gritty action, suspense, thrills, and even a few laughs.It’s cyberpunk reimagined—an ever-rainy world of colossal skyscrapers, hovercars, flashy neon streets, and futuristic mechanization. Metropolis isn’t a bad place, but it isn’t a good one either. Uber-governments and megacorporations fight for control of the fifty-million-plus supercity, but so does crime.We meet Cruz, our private eye (and unlikely hero), in this super-city with a million victims and perpetrators. Watch out for tech-tricksters, analog hustlers, and digital gangsters—psychos, samurais, and cyborgs aplenty. Visitors have a way of becoming permanent attractions.Welcome to the high-tech, low-life world of Liquid Cool.Grab The Liquid Cool Box Set #1 today and begin your action-filled and funny, sci fi detective adventure with Cruz and company!˃˃˃FIVE STAR REVIEWS“Lots of shooting, lots of crazy maniacs, lots of action and fun!”“I loved this book. It takes place in the future, and what a weird future.”“A funny, intelligent (and sometimes crazy) main character…playing detective”“Cool and Smooth.”“Too much fun!”“This is probably one of the very best cyberpunk novels I've ever read!!”“Page Turner. Constant excitement. The best in 35 years of reading!”˃˃˃Check out all of Author Austin Dragon’s books at ˃˃˃Join my VIP Readers’ Club and be the first to hear about all my new releases and special offers.

1099 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 26, 2017

About the author

Austin Dragon is the author of the new military sci-fi Planet Tamers series, epic fantasy Fabled Quest Chronicles, the sci-fi detective Liquid Cool series, the international epic After Eden Series, and the classic Sleepy Hollow Horrors. He is currently working on new books and series in science fiction, fantasy, and classic horror!

He is a native New Yorker, but has called Los Angeles, California home for the last twenty years. Words to describe him, in no particular order: U.S. Army, English teacher, one-time resident of Paris, political junkie, movie buff, Fortune 500 corporate recruiter, renaissance man, dreamer.

Reviews

[Darwin · Rating 2 out of 5]

I have a love/hate relationship with this series. I love the concept, plot, characters and obvious real creativity of the author, the world building is pretty cool, but I hate the execution. As a previous reviewer of book 1 stated, our main character, Detective Cruz, doesn't actually do any detecting. Cases are taken, and then without any explanation of how Cruz connected the dots (and sometime no dots are even provided) the solution is revealed and the case is closed. And this happens with almost every case. Detective stories are about the journey - at least for me - the discovery of clues and how the detective puts the pieces together to solve the case. Not so with Cruz. In one case, which was the main plot of one of the books, a character that we have never heard of all of a sudden appears at the end and explains all. Huh? And too often the hero arrives in the nick of time with the cavalry to save the day, which I find very lazy writing for this kind of story.

Secondly, the pacing of the books are terrible. Scene transitions are continuously clumsy, for instance our character will be in his car and answers his phone and in the next line he will be in a totally different location doing something totally unrelated to the previous line. Feels like chunks of story were edited out. This inconsistency is very consistent throughout all the books. Also, many sentences make no sense - often I would feel the need to reread a sentence again, thinking I misread it - but no - I did read it right, but still didn't make any sense to the current situation. These novels feel more like a very bad translation from a foreign language.

And lastly the hoard of villains in each book are not fleshed out enough - they all seem to come from the same Marvel/DC villain construction kit but without any substance to them or any backstory. This makes it very hard to distinguish between them, and keep track of all the various sub-plots and who is who - its a real mess.

Maybe the YA audience will be impressed by the "cool" names (China Doll, Red Rabbit, Punch Judy, etc) and funky styles (fedora hats, glamorous girlfriend, etc) and overlook these flaws.

I think that these novels would have been 5 star excellent if Mr. Dragon had added much more depth to the story telling. Convoluted sub-plots, intersecting cases and warring criminals all delivered in high level machine gun bursts of action with nothing to glue it all together. The outline is really good - but that's all that was delivered.

[Arnaud · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely fantastic

The following volumes from the first adventures of Cruz did not disappoint: seriously good plots, welcomed consistency in all main characters... A well deserved five stars in my opinion for the kind of stories you simply can't put away until you read the last paragraph :-) Well done Austin Dragon, well done! Probably need the 4th volume now :P

[Sherry Vaughan · Rating 5 out of 5]

A neo-noir book with plenty of twists and turns. An absolute joy to read.

[Dex Black · Rating 5 out of 5]

Action packed. Droll. Funny.

This series took me a little to warm up to but the protagonist is so interestingly flawed, the tale so outrageous, eventually it hooked me.

[Tanya Rivera · Rating 4 out of 5]

Witty an funny. Fun read.