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Book 2 of 3 in the Engineer Trilogy Series
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Product Details

  • Series: Engineer Trilogy (Book 2)
  • Paperback: 704 pages
  • Publisher: Orbit (November 21, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0316003395
  • ISBN-13: 978-0316003391
  • Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 1.8 x 8.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #452,944 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 starsMiddle book. Still cold. Moving on to the third.
By frumiousb VINE VOICE on November 8, 2008
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For every developer sitting at his or her desk, wondering if there was every going to be a moment where their native brilliance would be recognized by the Company-- For every engineer passed over for a salary rise in favor of a stuffed shirt manager-- For every unrecognized genius who lies in the dark thinking that someday they are ALL going to pay-- For all of you, this book's for you.

The story of the engineer Ziani Vaatzes is a trilogy for everyone who is able to make plans while those around them are seemingly only able to react. The plotting of a single man brings down the walls of nations. Love abounds, but is clearly more of a force for chaos and destruction than of poetry and healing. The God of this world is a machine.

I was on a knife's edge after reading Devices and Desires, the first book in the Engineer trilogy. I found it cold and bleak, but laced with surprising bursts of warmth and humor. I didn't like most of the main characters, but I accepted that I wasn't really meant to like most of the main characters. I really was glad that I read it, and I had both hopes and fears about what Evil for Evil was going to bring.

I have to confess, I am marginally less glad that I read Evil for Evil. I am beginning to find Vaatzes' nearly omniscient planning grating. I kept hoping for his demise because I have the feeling that I actually might be interested in the other characters if they can get out of his game somehow. The way the story goes is starting to feel a little bit predictable to me.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsI hate Trilogies, you have to continue on when things are mediocre...
By Chumplestilskin on December 8, 2012
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I am in one of those stages where I say, "Well, we've gone this far, might as well finish it..."

This is book two of a potentially clever series as the hero is an Engineer rather than a swashbuckler type.
A clever engineer breaks the law in the first book by improving specifications of manufacturering techniques and therefore slights the nation he is from because their whole society is built upon having "perfect" manufacturing specs on all of the items they build, thus making them the world leader in manufacturing and price setting to couple with the high standard. His crime of improving the specs (called an abomination because perfect things cannot be improved upon)leads to him fleeing the nation. In return, flight leads to pursuit from the "Mezentines", his people, to kill him as a revealer of secrets and since their society is built around manufacturing, they should probably be safe and wipe out whoever he may have spoken to - just in case he leaked something. Ok...why not?

Now an outlaw, our Engineer has only one care apparently, the well being of his wife and daugther he leaves behind. He tries to leverage his apparent ability to bring down entire nations because they are nothing but a mechanism (similar to a working machine in the factory of course) to assure that his wife and child left behind are taken care of. Of course, our hero has no remorse for murdering innocents not by the thousands but by the "nations" for lack of a better word to accomplish this as he weaves his webs of complexity only he can understand since people are just too predictable.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsHead Case Literature
By Allen King on January 17, 2016
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This story is pretty good, but the writer drifts off too often into the characters thought process. These trips into the characters minds are typically quite long. Frankly, the same good story could be told without the lengthy digressions. Without the digressions, the book would have gotten 4 stars. I will read the third book in the trilogy, but I do so reluctantly.
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1.0 out of 5 starsDisappointment
By Tril on July 27, 2013
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I was extremely enthusiastic about this after the first book in the series, while not the greatest work ever, Devices and Desires was well planned out and well paced; even more entertaining, the characters were great. It is difficult to find a book which kept my interest as well as that had done.

Evil For Evil was the complete opposite to Devices and Desires. I found myself despising the characters, they were one dimensional at best and managed to break character repeatedly. It got so bad a few main characters managed to become completely unbelievable. The pacing of the work was painfully slow, there was no effort to build to action and the reader is left jumping from insufferably whiny characters to battle scene back to whining. If you're a Lord of the Rings fan imagine cutting back and forth between Sam's burden of carrying the ring, to a pitched battle scene and having it abruptly end in Sam missing his Old Gaffer. Now, to show how truly awful this story fell, mentally replace Sam with Jar Jar Binks and you have the basic outline of Evil For Evil.

The plot itself managed to be engaging, enough I would have considered 2 POSSIBLY 3 stars but then editing got in the way. I'm not sure if it is because I was reading a kindle version but it felt like this did not receive a good final edit. Coupled with this and the characters becoming so bad the entire story was ruined for me.

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I should point out I hate when an author tries to darken a story simply by killing off likable characters or completely altering them. This just feels lazy to the reader, instead of developing the story the author repeatedly force fed drastic changes (show don't tell applies here). There were also several characters introduced simply to get killed off; characters that, for better or worse, could have been developed into doing something useful other than plot device.
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4.0 out of 5 starsLove, love

Love, love, love this series. Big consumer of fantasy literature but only if the author can actually write. This series and everything I've read by Parker is dark and well done. Read more

Published 9 months ago by Maeve's Moggy
4.0 out of 5 starsWell written book but it lacked sustained engagement. Many ...

Well written book but it lacked sustained engagement. Many peaks in this book that made me not want to put it down but also contained many slow points. Read more

Published 12 months ago by John
4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars

good book, delivered in good condition

Published 15 months ago by De
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat Read

Great book, my husband loves this author. He's always saying he's is completely turned around by the end of the book because just when you think you know what's going to happen an... Read more

Published 16 months ago by Joseph
3.0 out of 5 starsThree Stars

Lots of excitement !!!

Published 17 months ago by James Bryant
4.0 out of 5 starsGood Trilogy

I enjoyed the entire series. I've been reading through any good fantasy book i can find and i'm glad i picked this one up. Read more

Published on January 25, 2014 by Missy Drescher
5.0 out of 5 starsTotal involvement

Just as good as the first volume. Total involvement, kept me awake much too late. Have ordered the previous two trilogies

Published on November 16, 2013 by Hadith Harper
4.0 out of 5 starsDecent

It was good. I wanted to see more of a guerrilla / maneuver warfare situation, but the way it went was fine. The key battle should have been described in more detail.

Published on October 13, 2013 by maniac
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat new book

Book arrived in good condition. No tears, wrinkles or missing pages.
I have not read the book, but needed it to read all of the series.

Published on September 22, 2013 by James E. Perse
3.0 out of 5 starsDecent

It is a good length for the price. It is an entertaining read.

The only gripe I have with the story is it requires the supporting characters to be stupid in order for... Read more

Published on June 10, 2013 by Charles Wohlganger

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