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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
What started out as a fun and slightly original series has driven itself into the gound with silly plotlines and poor or unbelievable character development.
To be honest, I have thrown this book on the floor a few times in disgust and only finished it today as I was sick and it was all I had to read.
I don't mind intelligent killing of characters in a book, but Anderson's execution of everyone with a mindblowing overly powerful enemy is typical of authors who can't create a decent plot line. Rushah is stupidly annoying and Basil Wencelas is pretty much the same. Rushah could've been a great character and Basil should've been.
This book feels like the Days of Our Lives goes to space, where the bad guys are dastardly and the good are sickeningly sweet and the airlock should've been used to eject the entire cast into the cold clutches of space.
To be honest, I have thrown this book on the floor a few times in disgust and only finished it today as I was sick and it was all I had to read.
I don't mind intelligent killing of characters in a book, but Anderson's execution of everyone with a mindblowing overly powerful enemy is typical of authors who can't create a decent plot line. Rushah is stupidly annoying and Basil Wencelas is pretty much the same. Rushah could've been a great character and Basil should've been.
This book feels like the Days of Our Lives goes to space, where the bad guys are dastardly and the good are sickeningly sweet and the airlock should've been used to eject the entire cast into the cold clutches of space.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Why, I wonder does Kevin Anderson build a whole plot-line for some characters then kill them off seemingly at random? In this volume of the SofSS, he does it several times. The death of the character(s) becomes a frustration instead a tragedy, leaving the reader confused and wondering "What was the point of that thread ever starting?". It's like deciding characters will say "We have a great idea, we'll go and do this!" followed by "And at that moment a Piano fell on them all.". Why bother with stating the existence of the idea? It did nothing.
For me, this complaint sums up what is wrong with the entire book. Hopes are simply dashed repeatedly, to the extent that by the halfway mark, we know that any character who is doing something that could rescue someone, advance the fight or solve a problem is going to die before they actually get a chance to act. What's the point of reading the build-up when our minds are cynically predicting disaster already?
Oh dear. I do hope the final 900 chapters (sarcasm now, you see how upset I am?) have a point when they're published. I'll buy the book, because I need to have an ending. I'll be battling to keep an open mind while the plot re-convinces me that hopes are not always dashed in the Saga.
For me, this complaint sums up what is wrong with the entire book. Hopes are simply dashed repeatedly, to the extent that by the halfway mark, we know that any character who is doing something that could rescue someone, advance the fight or solve a problem is going to die before they actually get a chance to act. What's the point of reading the build-up when our minds are cynically predicting disaster already?
Oh dear. I do hope the final 900 chapters (sarcasm now, you see how upset I am?) have a point when they're published. I'll buy the book, because I need to have an ending. I'll be battling to keep an open mind while the plot re-convinces me that hopes are not always dashed in the Saga.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Whilst I am still enjoying the series as a whole, this is clearly the weakest book so far. Chapters that are, at most, 4 or 5 pages long, and totally unbelievable characters, mean you don't get any sense of depth that you might find (and desire) in other space operas, for example in Peter Hamilton's Nightsdawn trilogy. I do enjoy it when main characters die in their droves, though. :)
In addition to more obvious overlooks being made to further the plot (e.g. Confederation being able to manufacture a navy in about 2 pages, unlike the Hansa, and why couldn't the Hydrogues have destroyed Earth already?!), the distinctions between good and evil are also far too black and white for my liking when there are this many players: it's clear that the Verdani, Wentals and Confederation are the Good Guys, whilst Hydrogues, Klikiss robots and Basil Wenceslas are the Bad Guys and they're going to ultimately lose. Only the Faeros and returned Klikiss keep you guessing, and hence they are really the only things that keep you turning the pages.
Hopefully the next (and final?) book will have a satisfying plot that makes you care about what's going on again, it would be a shame if the series carried on like this.
In addition to more obvious overlooks being made to further the plot (e.g. Confederation being able to manufacture a navy in about 2 pages, unlike the Hansa, and why couldn't the Hydrogues have destroyed Earth already?!), the distinctions between good and evil are also far too black and white for my liking when there are this many players: it's clear that the Verdani, Wentals and Confederation are the Good Guys, whilst Hydrogues, Klikiss robots and Basil Wenceslas are the Bad Guys and they're going to ultimately lose. Only the Faeros and returned Klikiss keep you guessing, and hence they are really the only things that keep you turning the pages.
Hopefully the next (and final?) book will have a satisfying plot that makes you care about what's going on again, it would be a shame if the series carried on like this.
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Judging from the comments in the one and two star categories makes me wonder if I have read the same book. Read more
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Well, I enjoyed it!
I can understand the criticisms given by people, but nonetheless I've thoroughly enjoyed all of the books in this series, including this one.
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Illegible by book 5, this one is apalling
This seris was engaging for the first couple of books. After reading about 50 pages of this, the last one i bought, i gve up. The guy cannot write. Read more
Published on 13 Nov 2008 by Mr. Vojta Camek
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Why not write a series of books and stretch the story to breaking point. Another book with cliched characters and no imagination whatsoever. Read more
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i enjoyed the book, but i dont think it was as good as the others. i dont know why but the others i could not put down, but this one i could. Read more
Published on 4 July 2008 by andy
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To get the best out of this novel you should read the previous volumes of the saga first. Nevertheless, the author does provide a quick catch up on the plot so far and the history... Read more
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