Woken Furies: A Takeshi Kovacs Novel

After growing used to the very good reading quality of the first two books, William Durfis has ruined this final installment faster than any other series I've read or listened to. From the horrible toilet quality prologue to his very arbitrary inflections trying to stimulate reading emotion where it doesn't belong to his simple misspronunciation of the protagonists first name, I am not interested in the slightest to continue listening. I'll simply buy a paperback copy and read it myself. Nothing against William but.. it's just not my cup of tea.

Richard K. Morgan has crafted quite the alternative universe populated with tough cyberpunks and ruling families. Woken Furies is the 3rd installment featuring the anti-hero Takeshi Kovaks. While its an interesting story, I found it a bit too long and filled with many characters that were hard to keep track of. While overall its a good read, I liked the theme of noir detective/investigator in Altered Carbon more than the tough guy, take-no-prisoners flavor of this novel.

I really enjoyed the first two books of the series. The dialogue in all the books is excellent. However, this book tended to be hard to follow and I got bored. It really seemed to have no clear direction and went hopping from point to point.

the audio and narrator on this edition were absolutely horrible

Sound quality is horrible, narrating change from the first 2 books was hard to get over.

Definitely not as good as the other 2.

As a stand-alone book it was pretty well done but it is pretty obvious early on that the narrator hadn’t read any of either of the first two books which ruined the entire book for me personally. The writing of the book was excellent as can be expected from Richard K Morgan, but again the switch in narrators messed up the last book in a way the writing was unable to salvage. All in all definitely worth reading but not worth listening to.

It isn't the best of the series but has a good plot and is consistent with the character. A little slow on action and heavy on back story...but worth the listen.