hard, brutal and clever
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Ennis is not an author I regularly follow, but I am a huge fan of the whole Authority franchise. Amazingly he has preserved the "bizarre superhero family in a giant spaceship" feel of The Authority and yet , of course, managed to weld-on a story about WWI and WWII.
Once it gets going the action is relentless, surprising and grim, yet the dialogue crackles and brings in ideas at a rate of knots, even just focussing on a (admittedly the most interesting) single member of the Authority. I won't spoil the story but the ending is a huge satisfying twist that you should have seen coming a mile off, but somehow never occurred to you.
Overall - amazing, roll on book 2
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