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4.0 out of 5 stars
Nice continuation,
By Adam Sharples (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Coyote Rising: The Coyote Series: Book Two (Paperback)
Reading Coyote was a joy. Accompanying these rogue colonists on their journey to their new world was a great way to spend a couple of days and the cliffhanger nature of the ending of the first book gave me the impetus to buy the second in the series.Continuing on from the end of the first book. The new arrivals from Earth have started to settle and are imposing their regime onto the original colonists. The stories centre around the unhappyness of the new Colonists and the dictatorship that ultimately cause this new society to crumble. Terrorism, love the futility of war and religous persecution all feature in this second cracker of a novel by Mr Steele and as with the first, this book doesn't disappoint. Again as with Coyote, Coyote Rising presents you with a number of short stories, each one centred around individuals of the colony. Each one having a different perspective on what is happening. Each story is haunting and the characterisations are very well done. Even though each story is separate and distinct there is still and underlying story arc which each one refers to, allowing you to get your bearings are you delve deeper through the pages. I like the Coyote stories. They really are pure escapism and I intend to get the final book, Coyote Frontier when it is published. It's sad that this will be the final book but I hope the author takes us back some time. Recommended.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
How does he do it?,
This review is from: Coyote Rising: The Coyote Series: Book Two (Paperback)
I've been waiting for this book since I finished the previous one 'Coyote' in just a few days I was so hooked to the story of the crew of the Alabama.With this book I decided to take my time because its a long wait to the next and final tale in the trilogy, but I couldn't I just had to know how everything would turn out. This book starts 2 coyote years from the first and follows new characters to the world. Then after the base of how things are on coyote is made we return to the original crew, who are set for rebellion. This book has what you need Love, Action, and Sadness. I loved it from start to finish and wound have no trouble about rereading.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Coyote rising,
By Tifrap "tifrap" (Brighton, Sussex) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Coyote Rising: The Coyote Series: Book Two (Paperback)
Coyote Rising was a necessary read after its prequel Coyote, both being quite compulsive reads. Coyote Rising however manages to amplify all the faults of its parent story, Both it seems were written as serialisations and have not been edited when joined, the result is a lot of recaps throughout the text - if you have a short attention span this could be a very good thing, I found it annoying as it seriously broke the flow of the story.
The author should also have insisted on a better proof reader, there are many misplaced, mis-spelled and duplicated words. the book also relies on a lot of geographic descriptions that suffer from the author confusing east and west even in the same sentence. The book relies on quite a lot of technical description which is woefully inaccurate, not just regarding the science but also the trivial handcrafts that are described, I wonder if the author uses wikipedia for research, it certainly would seem so. OK it is a cheap book and perhaps I am expecting too much from something that was probably churned out in a few weeks, dont get me wrong, i enjoyed the book it is a real page turner, but I doubt that I'll be reading the final book. I managed to suspend disbelief most of the time, but one thing really made this book grate with me; the society represented is easily recognised as twentieth century USA, especially in its slightly smalltown puritanical views on alcohol, sex, work ethic, frontiersmanship, etc. These people are still sitting on front porches, wearing baseball caps and drinking coffee - even though it is set in the distant future, in an alien environment. there was a fantastic opportunity to creatively imagine a different future here, but the author has settled for deadwood with a few slightly different trees.
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