Shrouded Loyalties

My favorite Lovecraft story is called "From Beyond", and features a scientist who invents a mechanism that detects an alternate dimension full of strange, monstrous beings that is overlaid with our own. The problem is, once you can see the monsters, they can see you... Shrouded Loyalties features jus......more

Damn, this book packs a punch! I loved it, start to finish. It has so many constantly-competing levels of deception and espionage all juggled at once, and somehow it's simultaneously packed to the brim with non-stop action with terrifying escalations. The world building is dense and the pace never sl......more

Another ARC that came my way for a possible cover quote. I was intrigued about this story from the description - and one of the main protagonists is a female Chief Sea Officer (Mila Blackwood) in a submarine! How cool is that? The world is rather unique and there's a war going on between two countri......more

My journey into reading through as many Angry Robot stories as I can continues with Shrouded Loyalties and WHY AREN'T MORE PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THIS BOOK!? It's stunning, from the detailed world building, to the flawed (but great) characters, to the concept at the heart of the adventure. There is so......more

A great idea and a cool story but this was hard to get into due of lack of characterization. For the first seventy five percent of the book I had a hard time telling who was who and which characters were on which side and up from down sideways from left, it was difficult. The names were the only thi......more