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4.0 out of 5 stars
Everybody dies ......atleast twice !!!, 16 May 2009
OK, so after foolishly selling all of my X-men comic collection on a well known auction site and needing a missing `X-gap' in my life sadated, I grapped this book off the shelf when I saw it in a local music retailer for £2 ! (Sad aint it when the CD shops sell more DVD's than music now !).
The book (and I am sure fans of the X-men will gather from the title) mainly concerns the transformation from Logan - the kidnapping, the imprisonment, the adamantium bonding process and finally the testing of the new Weapon X. But as expected, our lovable (but not cuddly) Wolverine is not a mutant to be held down forever and fights inwardly against his programming to break free and make his brutal escape - twice !!! (read it and you'll know what I mean). There is also a `dream/remembered' sub-story within the book, telling of Logan meeting Miko in North Korea, whist on a black op's mission, which also serves to give a bit more feel to Logans even further chequered past.
I found the book highly addictive and a real page turner, and it is certainly not just for fans of all things comic related, as the story does not need an encyclopeadic knowledge of the history of the X-men. Though I have to say that I did not know Logan had bone `blades' originally, until I read this novel.
However, this is not also the kind of book that I think should be given to a younger audience as not only do the pages include alot of blood an gore, they also include partial pages of abuse and implied incset - which may or may not have been necessary to the story line.
There were two things about this book that slightly disappointed me though. Firstly was Chapter One Prophecy, which chops and changes in a confused Logan's mind whilst on a `bender' in a bar trying to forget his past and which I think could well possibly put a few people off of reading the balance of the book, which would be a real shame as it gets much better after that. Seconly, the books has two endings - a fake one and a real one. That in itself did not annoy me, but the fact that Cerasini writes about the emotions that each of Logan's victims is experiencing during their `virtual reality' demise may have been better suited to have been written during their actual demise later.
Lastly, Dr Reddy and Dr Able ? Come on give me a break. What next next Dr Willing and Dr Cando !!!
Overall, an enjoyable book, and I will certainly buy the next few in the series to see if I get the same adamantium buzz ! 4 out of 5.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Everybody dies.....atleast twice !!, 18 May 2009
4.0 out of 5 stars Everybody dies ......atleast twice !!!, 16 May 2009
By Mr. R. Coleman (Marlow, UK) - See all my reviews
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OK, so after foolishly selling all of my X-men comic collection on a well known auction site and needing a missing `X-gap' in my life sadated, I grapped this book off the shelf when I saw it in a local music retailer for £2 ! (Sad aint it when the CD shops sell more DVD's than music now !).
The book (and I am sure fans of the X-men will gather from the title) mainly concerns the transformation from Logan - the kidnapping, the imprisonment, the adamantium bonding process and finally the testing of the new Weapon X. But as expected, our lovable (but not cuddly) Wolverine is not a mutant to be held down forever and fights inwardly against his programming to break free and make his brutal escape - twice !!! (read it and you'll know what I mean). There is also a `dream/remembered' sub-story within the book, telling of Logan meeting Miko in North Korea, whist on a black op's mission, which also serves to give a bit more feel to Logans even further chequered past.
I found the book highly addictive and a real page turner, and it is certainly not just for fans of all things comic related, as the story does not need an encyclopeadic knowledge of the history of the X-men. Though I have to say that I did not know Logan had bone `blades' originally, until I read this novel.
However, this is not also the kind of book that I think should be given to a younger audience as not only do the pages include alot of blood an gore, they also include partial pages of abuse and implied incset - which may or may not have been necessary to the story line.
There were two things about this book that slightly disappointed me though. Firstly was Chapter One Prophecy, which chops and changes in a confused Logan's mind whilst on a `bender' in a bar trying to forget his past and which I think could well possibly put a few people off of reading the balance of the book, which would be a real shame as it gets much better after that. Seconly, the books has two endings - a fake one and a real one. That in itself did not annoy me, but the fact that Cerasini writes about the emotions that each of Logan's victims is experiencing during their `virtual reality' demise may have been better suited to have been written during their actual demise later.
Lastly, Dr Reddy and Dr Able ? Come on give me a break. What next next Dr Willing and Dr Cando !!!
Overall, an enjoyable book, and I will certainly buy the next few in the series to see if I get the same adamantium buzz ! 4 out of 5.
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