Deepa’s Reviews > The Last Contract of Isako > Status Update

I am glad I took the time to get back into this. Honestly this is a scifi corporate action who dunnit. Fonda charms with older characters but also does competence so well. Our second was savy. I think conveying this as magnetic when someone elite was the main focus without overshadowing is a gift. it’s compelling and mysterious. You think your guesses pan out until things change again-that’s the fun of it.

It’s brilliant and challenging and so lovely. I also damn well called it. I just knew that you know who is a little —-!!! He is! And what would that person do . All the herrings and all.

It feels like a month since I last read this. The pov is both unexpected initially but also something I kinda had in mind.

It’s very interesting learning about there world, the careers, and just character embodiment. Fonda really truly has a knack for detailing. This is a new pov new character but he’s moving the story forward so uniquely.

Ohmygod there's pov 2. What the what. I think i see where this is going. FONDA!!!!!!!...

dragonfly martim and kob and the freelancers . style of fonda’s writing is a huge plus. director greves. synthbodies, earth, consumption,

She was always going to write a book with clifi scifi at the heart of it. She’s Shannon Lee collab since. Written for TOR another novella series. Given what’s she’s said in the past. It’s high time. This was always coming since EXO myself included didn’t read it but clearly has passion for it.

Lost Ark Dreaming - Suyi Davies Okungbowa. Comp.

Fonda was corporate strategist for Nike. She had a very corporate career. She takes a lot of that knowledge and experience puts it into her book. This is come into Green Bone as well. ( Incomplete reader no spoilers plz) Her love of scifi. I’ve read interviews where she talks about how fantasy readers think of scifi different sff but it’s essentially the same thing. her YA series EXO. I read the first chapter

I think fans Amina Al Sirafi or Dalinar pov would really enjoy this. Isako is very worn down protagonist. She is decisive but tired. As a fixer she has perfected everything that can be done. Within this last chapter one of her apprentices and now we have met her mentor. She’s looking out for both of them. Their society is very cut throat about rules. 1/

The bridge (?) scene. Retired fixer (?) Oh we’re living in the ???? era. At least today.

So far I (ugh is this the umpheenth time I’ve used this probably sry) It’s been slow simmer. “Retirement” in this world is perilous. It really is bringing a convo about use and purpose. Older protagonists —- enthused as hell. I love seasoned pragmatic characters.

It’s so good to be back in Fonda world. It’s been a while for me since I read Jade War. Yes not read Legacy yet.

I’m fresh at chapter 4. This is so promising. This reminds me of Cowboy Bebop in my head x Amina Al Sirafi. The scifi elements —which I know is Fonda core outside of Greenbone ( I started reading Exo yrs ago).