Today it’s my stop on the blog tour for When The Children Fight Back by Barry Kirwan. Thanks to Rachel’s Random Resources and Barry Kirwan for the copy of the book. Here is my unbiased review.
In the near future, Artificial Intelligences will be smarter than us. Is that a good thing?
“Really entertaining, a brilliant balance between action and emotion.”
“A wonderful story. So much imagination!”
A mega-AI known as the Eye is intent on purifying the galaxy, by annihilating all ‘organics’. Humanity, itself already decimated after an attack by the Eye, must join eleven other species in the final battle at Orion’s Gate to stop their nemesis. Led by Sally, humans have a secret weapon: Ares, the last AI from a dead alien race. But can they really trust Ares? And as the battle rages in the heart of a star nursery nebula, Sally realises that one of the other species is about to betray them all…
The thrilling climax to the Children of the Eye series…
This is the final book in a trilogy that I have followed from the start. Barry Kirwan has always written stories that I want to read. He writes so well that I have looked forward to every book in the trilogy.
A Sci-fi series that has taken us through these characters lives and battles, now, faced with the final book, I wondered how Barry was going to end everything. It has been a pleasure to be at the side of the characters as they have grown throughout. It seems forever since Nathan started on his mission, in When The Children Fight Back we see Sally very secure in her place as Leader.
Told from different points of view, we are again told the story from every angle, alternating through the chapters. This always makes the story an immersive one. I tend to feel like I’m transported to his characters sides whenever I read his books. This book is definitely no different. Every character is still as realistic as they always were and I find myself relating to them. This makes me care about what happens and I just need to keep turning the pages to find out.
As gritty and vivid as always, When The Children Fight Back, is packed full of action, even more tension and suspense! An absolutely cracking ending to this amazing series, I will miss The Children of the Eye and am quite sad there will be no more books to wait for. I hope Barry Kirwan writes more just so I can read it! Such a great Sci fi series!
Purchase Links
UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09KNVQVXT
US https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09KNVQVXT
Author Bio
I was born in Farnborough and grew up watching the Red Arrow jet fighters paint the sky at airshows. I didn’t get into writing until years later when I arrived in Paris, where I penned The Eden Paradox series (four books) over a period of ten years. My SF influences were Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Frank Herbert, and Orson Scott Card, but also David Brin who writes about smart aliens. Iain Banks and Alistair Reynolds remain major influences, as well as Neal Asher, Peter F Hamilton and Jack McDevitt. My main SF premise is that if we do ever meet aliens, they’ll probably be far more intelligent than we are, and with very different values and ideas of how the galaxy works. As a psychologist by training, that interests me in terms of how to think outside our own (human) frame of reference. This current series is exploring Artificial Intelligences (AIs), and how they could either be our nemesis or saviour.
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Thanks so much Sharon for this fab review! Really pleased you enjoyed I! It wasn’t easy to finish the series and say goodbye to Sally and Nathan, glad you found it to be a cracking ending!
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