Thoroughly enjoyed this first book in this new series. Mr. Smith has been a favorite author of mine since his first novel many years ago and have read all of them. This is indeed an exceptional novel to begin this series.
It seems as though I always question the same items when a new novel comes out. How does this author keep the action so intense, the characters so vivid and the multiple plot lines straight? One mote time, he has managed to do all of those things in a cohesive manner.
This novel is heavy on Artificial Intelligence and the reader will be drawn into that realm. It will awaken your senses of smell, visual acuity and yes, even tactile senses. Incredible to read these portions.
In addition, it is filled with action on nearly every single page and just as you think you have something figured out in your mind....hold on, as there is another twist and turn that is thrown your way.
Loved the Japanese influence as well as the looming question of whether or not humanity will be able to come together on E-Day to save the remaining world.
Gripping from the first page to the last, well developed characters and plot lines, and an extremely well written novel.
My highest recommendation and waiting patiently for the second one in this fantastic new series.
Most highly recommended.
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A.I. Is Salvation…?
Nicholas Sansbury Smith and R.C. Bray back together again. I mean, even just knowing that will help bolster sales of this book – but if I back away from my fandom of both and just look at this book critically, it’s probably Smith’s best work to date. I’ve read quite a few books from NSS over the years from Extinction Cycle to Hell Divers to Trackers to Sons of War. Each world has its own unique feel to it. Each one has insanely well built out characters and plotlines. But, sometimes you can tell when an author puts their heart and soul into a book. I think that E-Day is that book for Smith. Every page and every chapter I could feel Smith’s soul coming out through his words. E-Day was written with so much love and so much attention to detail that it just jumps off the page.Now, backing up a bit from that introduction, knowing how much I like Smith’s other work – I jumped into E-Day without a ton of information. I knew that there was going to be AI in it along with all of the other things mentioned above, but I wanted to go into it as blind as I could so that every new thing would surprise me. I’m glad that I did because this book was just excellent from beginning to end. But even with that said, there were some parts of it that surprised me (in a good way). E-Day contains a lot of interesting characters along with interesting sects/groups. It also utilizes a lot of history to “show” who each group was. My particular favorite was the amount of Samurai influence that was in this book. I don’t know why, but I didn’t expect it, and because of that it made me enjoy the influence even more.Now, I can’t talk too much about the actual plot points, especially the turning points of the book (the last quarter of it or so was a mad sprint to the finish with lots of reveals and surprises). But just know that as someone who has read 20+ Smith books, this book still had a lot of parts that surprised me. I will say, especially the part where I figured out what E-Day stood for was the biggest shock of them all. I didn’t realize I spent most of the book trying to figure out why he called it that, but once he mentions it (almost casually in the book), I was, for lack of better words, shook.Now, I don’t even have to talk about R.C. Bray’s narration – I mean, he’s one of the top-selling narrators for a reason. But, if, for some reason, you still need a selling point at this point in my review… Bray sings numerous times in this book. Yeah? Enough said.
