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Esteban Torres

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🇨🇷 born & raised currently living in Berlin 🇩🇪 @esttorhe@mastodon.social

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reviewed The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim

Gene Kim: The Phoenix Project (Hardcover, 2013, IT Revolution Press)

The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win is the …

So so

I genuinely like the writing style. Writing int as a story is definitely infinitely better than any other "recipe" book.

That being said, as of 2024 this book reads full of cliches; and the MC being the macho American ex navy just destroys a bunch of different great points

Has interesting points but not mind blowing (obviously this is 11 years after initial writing)

reviewed Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare (The Chronicles of Castellane, #1)

Cassandra Clare: Sword Catcher (Hardcover, 2023, Random House Worlds, Del Rey)

In the vibrant city-state of Castellane, the richest of nobles and the most debauched of …

Update on the sword catcher

So far this reads like a fusion of "The Daevabad Trilogy" meets "Shades of Magic"

And not a lot of differences other than the bare minimum to not make it a copy

In itself is not a bad book. But if you have read the other 2 sagas this just feels like a half baked copy