Burndive Book

I am a fan of this woman's writing. I really am. I didn't know precisely how I will take to a completely different character than Jos. Jos Musey was a brilliant protagonist. He had everything that usually takes me in. True grit and true suffering without the slobbery romance. The short period in which he left his innocence of childhood and gotten stuck in forced adulthood with nobody to trust got my soul twisted for him. I was there when he found himself, I was gutted when Warboy sent him away. It felt so wrong but yet so right. Karin Lowachee is an amazing author.

I didn't know what to think of Ryan. How the hell do you switch from so much essence to a spoilt little rich boy, with his spoilt little problems? I wanted to shove him out of the airlock at the soonest available moment so we could focus on Jos again. Ryan seemed so much less, while Jos was so much more. It took me a while to get into it because of the difference in characters. I was amazed in a way that Karin chose to take focus away from Jos and give it to someone so undeserving. That was until I read some more. That was until I have seen just how an abandoned boy struggles to cope in the presence of his father the legend. A man that the whole universe knows and respects, a man that is responsible for making him famous - simply by being his father. A man that he saw tree times in his life and knows nothing about.

I hated Ryan, I hate the moan of the rich and lazy, telling everyone that will listen just how sad and hard their life is.

I found myself understanding Ryan, and understanding his frustration. Every single word that came out of his mouth was already tailored to fit someone else's purpose. Every freedom he had he enjoyed within a gilded cage. Once the world started burning all around him he was taken from it and thrust in a coldly regimented world of his coldly regimented father that loves him passionately..... This was a damned good book.