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3.68 AVERAGE
3.68 AVERAGE
Years ago, I read The Ice Limit and was blown away. The concept of an engineering firm that took on seemingly impossible projects with backup plans for backup plans was fascinating and a great read. The cliffhanger was unfortunate because I'm a fast reader with little patience - a bad combo for book series that I like.
In any event, after noticing that the sequel was the latest book in a new series, I eagerly began reading the previous books in the Gideon Crew series so I would be caught up when reading BtIL. Unfortunately, the main character is a misogynistic creep whose main forté is "social engineering" (i.e. making shit up as he goes) and was a complete reversal from Glinn and his crew in the previous book. Thanks to my afore-mentioned reading speed, I was able to keep just ahead of the burnout on my way through the first three books. Surely, the fourth would be better? I was quickly tiring of the propensity of Crew to kill off the innocents around him (while, in most cases, bedding them before their death) while he "winged it" through paper-thin plots.
Unfortunately, BtIL was the camel's final straw and I couldn't finish it fast enough - not because of the writing (juvenile), characters (two-dimensional and boring) or plot (interesting at first but quickly veering into eye-rolling). I wanted to finish so I could wash my hands of the whole, sordid series and get back to my shelf of To-Reads, most of which have proven to be much more entertaining.
In any event, after noticing that the sequel was the latest book in a new series, I eagerly began reading the previous books in the Gideon Crew series so I would be caught up when reading BtIL. Unfortunately, the main character is a misogynistic creep whose main forté is "social engineering" (i.e. making shit up as he goes) and was a complete reversal from Glinn and his crew in the previous book. Thanks to my afore-mentioned reading speed, I was able to keep just ahead of the burnout on my way through the first three books. Surely, the fourth would be better? I was quickly tiring of the propensity of Crew to kill off the innocents around him (while, in most cases, bedding them before their death) while he "winged it" through paper-thin plots.
Unfortunately, BtIL was the camel's final straw and I couldn't finish it fast enough - not because of the writing (juvenile), characters (two-dimensional and boring) or plot (interesting at first but quickly veering into eye-rolling). I wanted to finish so I could wash my hands of the whole, sordid series and get back to my shelf of To-Reads, most of which have proven to be much more entertaining.
A brilliant scifi thriller. At first I wasn't sure if I'd like it, not a scifi reader and never read Gideon Crew nor the first Ice Limit. But wow, the authors are great. The writing makes this book like a stand alone. A pure page turner.
This became just a little far fetched for my enjoyment, but of course the language used keeps you alert and captivated. Not my typical story, and the ending was far from conclusive, but certainly worth a read.
Dans la postface de ce livre, Preston et Child expliquent qu’ils ont voulu donner une suite à l’un de leur précédent ouvrage, Ice Limit.
Si vous vous rappelez ma critique sur le dernier tome de cette série sur Gideon Crew, je vous avais d’ailleurs parlé de ce personnage d’Eli Glenn que j’avais rencontré dans un livre concernant Pendergast mais qui avait été blessé lors d’une aventure précédente.
Les auteurs sont donc allés encore plus loin mais en voulant garder aux lecteurs la possibilité de prendre le train en marche.
Du coup, s’il est préférable d’avoir lu les précédents tomes de Gideon Crew, Ice Limit est lui expliqué au fur et à mesure des pages et j’ai pu très bien suivre alors que je ne le connaissais pas.
L’EEC semble enfin décidée à abattre toutes ses cartes et Eli Glenn va chercher Gideon Crew dans ses montagnes pour ce qui pourrait être sa plus importante mission.
Au fond de l’Océan Austral, une graine extraterrestre est en train de germer et il va être charger de la détruire.
Mon principal problème avec Gideon jusque là était sa propension à faire tomber toutes les filles, et pas seulement les plus intéressantes. Autant dire que la présence d’un énième personnage féminin, tout aussi interchangeable que les précédents, a juste réussi à m’agacer.
Mais cette aventure tourne vite en eau de boudin et c’est tant mieux car il y a d’autres choses à s’occuper.
Aux côtés de Gideon, on retrouve les habituels Eli et Manuel. Si tous les reproches adressés à Glinn semblent plus ou moins justifiés, je ne comprends pas pourquoi tout le monde s’acharne autant sur Garza. Certes, il manque un brin d’originalité et d’imagination mais c’est un personnage solide sur lequel on peut toujours compter et la méfiance qu’il inspire à Gideon me semble peu justifiée.
Le plus intéressant c’est tout de même l’arrivée de Sam MacFarlane, chasseur de météorites de son état, qui vient voler la vedette à Gideon tant il est imaginatif et intéressant. Et puis je ne peux pas m’empêcher d’avoir eu un petit coup de cœur pour Prothero, le spécialiste en acoustique, mais c’est parce que je ne résiste pas aux grincheux ronchons.
Plein de suspense, de rebondissements mais aussi d’émotions et d’inventivité, ce quatrième tome donne clairement l’impression d’être celui que les auteurs voulaient écrire pour boucler quelque chose d’inachevé dans leurs ouvrages précédents.
Du coup, je me demande comment ils vont faire pour rebondir par la suite tant la mission principale de l’EEC semble désormais terminée.
Si vous vous rappelez ma critique sur le dernier tome de cette série sur Gideon Crew, je vous avais d’ailleurs parlé de ce personnage d’Eli Glenn que j’avais rencontré dans un livre concernant Pendergast mais qui avait été blessé lors d’une aventure précédente.
Les auteurs sont donc allés encore plus loin mais en voulant garder aux lecteurs la possibilité de prendre le train en marche.
Du coup, s’il est préférable d’avoir lu les précédents tomes de Gideon Crew, Ice Limit est lui expliqué au fur et à mesure des pages et j’ai pu très bien suivre alors que je ne le connaissais pas.
L’EEC semble enfin décidée à abattre toutes ses cartes et Eli Glenn va chercher Gideon Crew dans ses montagnes pour ce qui pourrait être sa plus importante mission.
Au fond de l’Océan Austral, une graine extraterrestre est en train de germer et il va être charger de la détruire.
Mon principal problème avec Gideon jusque là était sa propension à faire tomber toutes les filles, et pas seulement les plus intéressantes. Autant dire que la présence d’un énième personnage féminin, tout aussi interchangeable que les précédents, a juste réussi à m’agacer.
Mais cette aventure tourne vite en eau de boudin et c’est tant mieux car il y a d’autres choses à s’occuper.
Aux côtés de Gideon, on retrouve les habituels Eli et Manuel. Si tous les reproches adressés à Glinn semblent plus ou moins justifiés, je ne comprends pas pourquoi tout le monde s’acharne autant sur Garza. Certes, il manque un brin d’originalité et d’imagination mais c’est un personnage solide sur lequel on peut toujours compter et la méfiance qu’il inspire à Gideon me semble peu justifiée.
Le plus intéressant c’est tout de même l’arrivée de Sam MacFarlane, chasseur de météorites de son état, qui vient voler la vedette à Gideon tant il est imaginatif et intéressant. Et puis je ne peux pas m’empêcher d’avoir eu un petit coup de cœur pour Prothero, le spécialiste en acoustique, mais c’est parce que je ne résiste pas aux grincheux ronchons.
Plein de suspense, de rebondissements mais aussi d’émotions et d’inventivité, ce quatrième tome donne clairement l’impression d’être celui que les auteurs voulaient écrire pour boucler quelque chose d’inachevé dans leurs ouvrages précédents.
Du coup, je me demande comment ils vont faire pour rebondir par la suite tant la mission principale de l’EEC semble désormais terminée.
Yes this is a sequel, however I picked it up at a library book sale and hadn't read the others. You can definitely read this as a standalone. The authors do a good job at reviewing the background needed/missed from the others in the series.
Probably closer to 3.5 than a 4. this was the second part of a mini story series that the Author admits to deciding to write several years after the initial story was completed. The beginning was a little slow but then it slowly got going. Overall I enjoyed it.
Beyond the Ice Limit (2016) by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child is the creepiest book that I have R.I.P. XI Event, so it's fitting that it will be the last book logged for that reading event. The book is the unexpected sequel to Preston & Child's Ice Limit and it takes place five years after the tragic ending of that adventure. In the first story, Eli Glinn, the head of Effective Engineering Solutions, took a team to a remote island off the coast of South America to recover a gigantic meteorite--the largest that had ever been. He was in the employ of New York billionaire Palmer Lloyd who wanted to add the space rock to his collection of unique items.The mission ended in disaster when their ship, the Rolvaag, was attached by a rogue Chilean ship and went down in a vicious storm in the freezing waters and taking its unique cargo to the ocean floor. One hundred and eight crew members perished, and Eli Glinn was left paralyzed.
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Now, five years later, Glinn is heading up a mission back to the site of the disaster. Reports he has been given show that the meteorite was much more than just a rock from space--it was a seed. And the thing has sprouted and is growing, reaching up through the watery depths like a giant tree. This time, it's not just a billionaire's rock collection at stake--but the survival of Earth itself. Gideon Crew has been added to the team to give them the benefit of his nuclear expertise, because it looks like the only thing that will take out the newly dubbed Baobab is an atomic blast. It's not as easy as dropping a nuke on the thing though (of course!). The Baobab has extensive roots under the sea floor and they will have to make sure they get all of it the first time.
The creature isn't just a mindless organism out to reproduce itself. It becomes apparent that there is an intelligence driving its actions and the creature isn't going to go down without a fight.
I haven't read a lot of Preston and Child's work (I'm a weenie when it comes to suspense thrillers), but I have to say that every one I've read has been well done and dragged me right in--in spite of myself. Beyond the Ice Limit was no different. And it made no difference that I hadn't read the earlier book. It may have helped fill in some of the backstory, but the authors give enough background information and context clues that this novel can easily be read as a stand-alone. It is an action-packed thriller and it would make a spine-tingling SF/suspense movie. Lots of scientific exploration and speculation and plenty of gruesome alien critter vs. humans action. I'm not going to spoil it--but let's just say I was extremely reluctant to go to sleep after listening to installments of the latter half of this audio novel. It was very interesting to see how the creature modified its attacks as it learned more about the humans--just as our heroes had to modify their reactions. My biggest quibble with the authors is that they killed off two of my favorite characters in the story--a strong female character (the only one we really get to know; and this is no spoiler because she's gone VERY quickly in the book) and a very sympathetic character who also happens to be a book-lover. Overall, another excellent action thriller by Preston and Child.
First posted on my blog My Reader's Block. Please request permission before reposting. Thanks.
read for Carl's
Now, five years later, Glinn is heading up a mission back to the site of the disaster. Reports he has been given show that the meteorite was much more than just a rock from space--it was a seed. And the thing has sprouted and is growing, reaching up through the watery depths like a giant tree. This time, it's not just a billionaire's rock collection at stake--but the survival of Earth itself. Gideon Crew has been added to the team to give them the benefit of his nuclear expertise, because it looks like the only thing that will take out the newly dubbed Baobab is an atomic blast. It's not as easy as dropping a nuke on the thing though (of course!). The Baobab has extensive roots under the sea floor and they will have to make sure they get all of it the first time.
The creature isn't just a mindless organism out to reproduce itself. It becomes apparent that there is an intelligence driving its actions and the creature isn't going to go down without a fight.
I haven't read a lot of Preston and Child's work (I'm a weenie when it comes to suspense thrillers), but I have to say that every one I've read has been well done and dragged me right in--in spite of myself. Beyond the Ice Limit was no different. And it made no difference that I hadn't read the earlier book. It may have helped fill in some of the backstory, but the authors give enough background information and context clues that this novel can easily be read as a stand-alone. It is an action-packed thriller and it would make a spine-tingling SF/suspense movie. Lots of scientific exploration and speculation and plenty of gruesome alien critter vs. humans action. I'm not going to spoil it--but let's just say I was extremely reluctant to go to sleep after listening to installments of the latter half of this audio novel. It was very interesting to see how the creature modified its attacks as it learned more about the humans--just as our heroes had to modify their reactions. My biggest quibble with the authors is that they killed off two of my favorite characters in the story--a strong female character (the only one we really get to know; and this is no spoiler because she's gone VERY quickly in the book) and a very sympathetic character who also happens to be a book-lover. Overall, another excellent action thriller by Preston and Child.
First posted on my blog My Reader's Block. Please request permission before reposting. Thanks.