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david_agranoff's review
2.0
David Goyer has made a name for himself for being involved in some of the most sucesscful movies of all time. He has made excellent movies as a screenwriter, director and a producer. He has written comics and TV. He knows how to tell a story. The first novel in this series was written during the writers strike and I personally think the quality of that book which seemed to have more focus is clear.
Goyer’s partner is also a screenwriter after all. The first novel worked well and I liked it a lot. I was excited to read the second book. I liked it but found the ending to be a bit weak. I read this one almost just to feel I completed it.
The third book took me forever to finish. I found that I was drifting my attention to other books. The only reason I put my finger on was that the story was not clear to me. The adventure was not clear to me. What the Characters were doing was not clear to me.
There is an interesting shift in the story going twenty year ahead in the story, extra terrestrials have taken over the earth, the humans who were taken by Keanu have returned. Etc.
Honestly I am not going to go deep here. I didn’t enjoy the book, yet I did the first one.
Goyer’s partner is also a screenwriter after all. The first novel worked well and I liked it a lot. I was excited to read the second book. I liked it but found the ending to be a bit weak. I read this one almost just to feel I completed it.
The third book took me forever to finish. I found that I was drifting my attention to other books. The only reason I put my finger on was that the story was not clear to me. The adventure was not clear to me. What the Characters were doing was not clear to me.
There is an interesting shift in the story going twenty year ahead in the story, extra terrestrials have taken over the earth, the humans who were taken by Keanu have returned. Etc.
Honestly I am not going to go deep here. I didn’t enjoy the book, yet I did the first one.
sarahgb's review against another edition
3.0
The third in the series Heaven's Shadow. Took a long while to get going with this which was a surprise as I enjoyed the other two. Keanu has returned to Earth twenty years after the 2nd book, characters have grown up, married and had children. Leaders of Keanu have crash landed on Earth with a mission. Once I persevered with the first third of the book I was back on familiar ground and thoroughly enjoying it. The ending lends itself to a fourth novel or possibly a novella.
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