On the other hand, there are points when it feels like Colonyside is retreading old ground. On the one hand, it makes sense that Butler would face the same sort of situations time and again, having proven himself an expert at resolving them. The familiarity of the plot is a drawback. From there, he investigates in a typically confrontational style, uncovering a conspiracy and getting shot at along the way. Butler is in retirement (two years after the climax of the previous novel), until an old friend offers him a job that isn’t really optional. Structurally, Colonyside follows the same pattern as its predecessors. With Colonyside, Mammay rounds off his trilogy of Carl Butler investigations with another tale of government cover-ups, grizzled veterans, and boots-on-the-ground action. The sequel Spaceside similarly just popped up on shelves one day, and again it was a brilliant book. It was a great little military SF/crime hybrid that received very little buzz in the UK and slipped under the radar of every other blog I followed at the time. Īs I’ve said before, Michael Mammay’s debut novel Planetside was one of the two books (along with Christopher Ruocchio’s Empire of Silence) that made me take up blogging. This time, it might just be the last time. But then a CEO’s daughter goes missing, and Butler finds himself called on again to solve the mystery. – Hold up, this is a sequel! Find my review of the previous book here–Ĭarl Butler – the man who committed genocide – has finally settled into retirement.
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