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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
Una agradable sorpresa despues de muchos libros genéricos de ciencia ficcion, violenta, sangrienta, cinica y sin miedo a burlarse de si misma. Una refrescante opera espacial.
The saga of Owen Deathstalker continues in book two of the series ......
adventurous
Onto the second book...My review of the first book in this series, Deathstalker, speaks to how much of other series this author "borrows" for this series. Here's some more:
- The Borg (Star Trek), also known as Hadenmen in this series, even to the point of them wanting to change all of humanity to Hadenmen (Resistance is Futile!).
- Vampires/Stalkers (from Mortal Engines) (Wampir) a person who was killed and remade in a way that makes them stronger, faster, harder to kill (sounds familiar).
- The Fremen (from Dune), the Rejects on Techno 3, genetically engineered to live on a planet that has extremely harsh weather conditions fighting a rebellion against their overlords.
- The blood feud between two houses (Dune: Atreides and Harkonnen), the Wolfs take over Techno 3, the crest of the Campbells is still visible, and there are still booby-traps from the Campbells...sounds a lot like how Dune was when the Harkonnens left and the Atreides took over.
- The Bene Gesserit, also known as Investigators in this series, this one is a stretch, but the Investigators are seemingly unstoppable killers that everyone is extremely scared of. Bene Gesserit are similar, extremely skilled fighters that everyone is scared of.
- AI mastermind (Omnius from Dune books by Brian Herbert...yuck), meet Shub, the ENEMY OF HUMANITY, the evil rogue AI that is bent on the utter destruction of humanity, who also uses dead human bodies to make Ghost Warriors, aka Inferi (Harry Potter)/Zombies, unstoppable killing machines that only our superheroes can kill.
- Bug Aliens (Xeelee from Enterprise/Buggers from Enders Game), yucky insect type aliens that have a hive mind queen that controls these horrific bugs, EEK! Definitely would make me have nightmares.
Other aspects of the story that are silly but fun:
- Rebels turned Superheroes by the MADNESS MAZE! Our heroes from the last book are now bonafide superheroes, able to kill just about anybody that crosses them, and get cool new powers at each new obstacle, not to mention actually getting younger.
- Silly rebellion jibber jabber. All the blab blab blab about the rebellion and the back and forth among the characters is annoying and a waste of time. Interesting in that most other rebellion stories rarely dive this deep into what makes a rebellion tick.
- Utterly crazy religious figures. This author must really despise Christianity, or at least Catholicism (not rare in the sci-fi genre). The Church of Christ the Warrior seems to be a twisted form of Christianity that glorifies death, destruction, and corruption. Probably this author's commentary on religion (ugh, tired of authors pontificating).
- Crazy plotting by every major character of the series to somehow remove another character.
- Saintly Mother Superior character, who is also super badass by the way, who really drives home the moral issues of this empire (using clones as slave labor).
What I didn't like about this book:
- silly jibber jabber and back and forth during the rebellion meeting was an utter waste of time, only useful to explain how our superheroes get to their next destinations.
- sub-plots within sub-plots gets a bit tiresome to hear all the aristos plotting to kill each other, fun to watch it all happen in the end though.
- Hazel turning back to a previous vice from the previous book and basically being a bitchy character in this book, we don't see much of her, and what we do, she's really annoying.
- the overly optimistic approach this author takes with our superheroes (maybe except Hazel in this book, we don't see much good with her here), but every other aspect of this universe is overly disgusting and over the top evil
- the author's political ranting against corruption and abuse of power...blah blah blah. A tired story that is part of every single rebellion story ever written. Just get to the good parts :)
- After the first part of the book, we don't see Hazel and Owen again :(. Owen is my favorite character and his story must continue in the next book.
What I did like about this book:
- Seeing Ruby Journey start to grow as a human being
- Seeing Jack Random come out of his morose shell and start living again
- Toby Shrek and Flynn
- Adrianna Campbell, totally corrupt "Real Housewife of House Campbell" becomes totally badass
- Evangeline Shrek gets her own life finally
- Certain character's demises :)
- Seeing the cool new powers our superheroes get to have as they face new obstacles
- More action (at least once we get to Technos 3)
- The Borg (Star Trek), also known as Hadenmen in this series, even to the point of them wanting to change all of humanity to Hadenmen (Resistance is Futile!).
- Vampires/Stalkers (from Mortal Engines) (Wampir) a person who was killed and remade in a way that makes them stronger, faster, harder to kill (sounds familiar).
- The Fremen (from Dune), the Rejects on Techno 3, genetically engineered to live on a planet that has extremely harsh weather conditions fighting a rebellion against their overlords.
- The blood feud between two houses (Dune: Atreides and Harkonnen), the Wolfs take over Techno 3, the crest of the Campbells is still visible, and there are still booby-traps from the Campbells...sounds a lot like how Dune was when the Harkonnens left and the Atreides took over.
- The Bene Gesserit, also known as Investigators in this series, this one is a stretch, but the Investigators are seemingly unstoppable killers that everyone is extremely scared of. Bene Gesserit are similar, extremely skilled fighters that everyone is scared of.
- AI mastermind (Omnius from Dune books by Brian Herbert...yuck), meet Shub, the ENEMY OF HUMANITY, the evil rogue AI that is bent on the utter destruction of humanity, who also uses dead human bodies to make Ghost Warriors, aka Inferi (Harry Potter)/Zombies, unstoppable killing machines that only our superheroes can kill.
- Bug Aliens (Xeelee from Enterprise/Buggers from Enders Game), yucky insect type aliens that have a hive mind queen that controls these horrific bugs, EEK! Definitely would make me have nightmares.
Other aspects of the story that are silly but fun:
- Rebels turned Superheroes by the MADNESS MAZE! Our heroes from the last book are now bonafide superheroes, able to kill just about anybody that crosses them, and get cool new powers at each new obstacle, not to mention actually getting younger.
- Silly rebellion jibber jabber. All the blab blab blab about the rebellion and the back and forth among the characters is annoying and a waste of time. Interesting in that most other rebellion stories rarely dive this deep into what makes a rebellion tick.
- Utterly crazy religious figures. This author must really despise Christianity, or at least Catholicism (not rare in the sci-fi genre). The Church of Christ the Warrior seems to be a twisted form of Christianity that glorifies death, destruction, and corruption. Probably this author's commentary on religion (ugh, tired of authors pontificating).
- Crazy plotting by every major character of the series to somehow remove another character.
- Saintly Mother Superior character, who is also super badass by the way, who really drives home the moral issues of this empire (using clones as slave labor).
What I didn't like about this book:
- silly jibber jabber and back and forth during the rebellion meeting was an utter waste of time, only useful to explain how our superheroes get to their next destinations.
- sub-plots within sub-plots gets a bit tiresome to hear all the aristos plotting to kill each other, fun to watch it all happen in the end though.
- Hazel turning back to a previous vice from the previous book and basically being a bitchy character in this book, we don't see much of her, and what we do, she's really annoying.
- the overly optimistic approach this author takes with our superheroes (maybe except Hazel in this book, we don't see much good with her here), but every other aspect of this universe is overly disgusting and over the top evil
- the author's political ranting against corruption and abuse of power...blah blah blah. A tired story that is part of every single rebellion story ever written. Just get to the good parts :)
- After the first part of the book, we don't see Hazel and Owen again :(. Owen is my favorite character and his story must continue in the next book.
What I did like about this book:
- Seeing Ruby Journey start to grow as a human being
- Seeing Jack Random come out of his morose shell and start living again
- Toby Shrek and Flynn
- Adrianna Campbell, totally corrupt "Real Housewife of House Campbell" becomes totally badass
- Evangeline Shrek gets her own life finally
- Certain character's demises :)
- Seeing the cool new powers our superheroes get to have as they face new obstacles
- More action (at least once we get to Technos 3)
adventurous
hopeful
mysterious
medium-paced
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Has all the same failings as the first book, only more so. ( I read the first two in the series before reviewing here.)
5 star - Perfect
4 star - i would recommend
3 star - good
2 star - struggled to complete
1 star - could not finish
4 star - i would recommend
3 star - good
2 star - struggled to complete
1 star - could not finish
Good book, I like how the story is going and cannot wait to read the next in the series. Still not as good as his Nighstide or Drood series but still a good read.