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novelesque_life's review against another edition
4.0
3.5 STARS
"Five months into his term in office, President Kilcannon and his fiancee have decided to marry. The day of the ceremony the nation is plunged into mourning following a massacre of innocents in a lethal burst of gunfire. Kilcannon vows to curb gun crime but the cost to him and his wife is going to be high." (From Amazon)
A great political thriller. I did not know this novel was part of a series so will have to start with book one.
"Five months into his term in office, President Kilcannon and his fiancee have decided to marry. The day of the ceremony the nation is plunged into mourning following a massacre of innocents in a lethal burst of gunfire. Kilcannon vows to curb gun crime but the cost to him and his wife is going to be high." (From Amazon)
A great political thriller. I did not know this novel was part of a series so will have to start with book one.
otherwyrld's review against another edition
3.0
The fifth journey of the Daedalus takes the crew to the planet of Atticus. Here, one of the major continents has an intelligent alien life form, so the colonists take over the other continent. As one of the crew missions involves contact with extra-terrestrials, and the ship can only land and take off in one place, this involves a long sea journey on a wooden sailing ship for Alex and Mariel.
Even though Alex muses that this is like the voyage of Christopher Columbus, it turns out to be more like some of the Spanish conquistador expeditions, as the aliens turn out to be far more advanced than had been previously realised. Complicating this scenario are the children of a previous human voyager who live with and try to control the aliens, something that the alien leadership resents and would like to see change.
For once, Alex doesn't come into much harms way, apart from an attempted stabbing and being involved with a mutiny and a naval battle. His expertise in biology also doesn't play much part until a pandemic flares up later in the book. A lot of the work is down to empath Mariel, who has to forge a link with the aliens but is disappointed in not having first contact. In fact, many of the aliens speak English and it could be said that they have been contaminated by the intrusion of the humans. Having said that, the aliens were well on their way to creating an empire without any outside help, the human influence just pushed their development along a bit longer. The price of that empire building though might be a future conflict with the colonists, one which they would be hard pressed to win.
While this was still an entertaining story, it perhaps covered a few too many elements that had appeared in previous stories, such as the whole ruling family political aspects. Perhaps this is something that only really becomes apparent if you binge read these books though.
Even though Alex muses that this is like the voyage of Christopher Columbus, it turns out to be more like some of the Spanish conquistador expeditions, as the aliens turn out to be far more advanced than had been previously realised. Complicating this scenario are the children of a previous human voyager who live with and try to control the aliens, something that the alien leadership resents and would like to see change.
For once, Alex doesn't come into much harms way, apart from an attempted stabbing and being involved with a mutiny and a naval battle. His expertise in biology also doesn't play much part until a pandemic flares up later in the book. A lot of the work is down to empath Mariel, who has to forge a link with the aliens but is disappointed in not having first contact. In fact, many of the aliens speak English and it could be said that they have been contaminated by the intrusion of the humans. Having said that, the aliens were well on their way to creating an empire without any outside help, the human influence just pushed their development along a bit longer. The price of that empire building though might be a future conflict with the colonists, one which they would be hard pressed to win.
While this was still an entertaining story, it perhaps covered a few too many elements that had appeared in previous stories, such as the whole ruling family political aspects. Perhaps this is something that only really becomes apparent if you binge read these books though.
rfwads's review against another edition
5.0
I absolutely LOVED this book! It brought up so many emotions and feelings...at time I was so frustrated at members of Congress. I know that this novel is not true by any means, but there is no way that you can't tell me there isn't corruption (w both parties) when it comes to bills being passed or even brought to the congress! As someone who does not care for guns, this book brings up a lot of how I feel. People manipulate what is said and always twist it around to think the government wants to take all their guns away, which is never the case as this gun points out. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone...including those who are all for their guns. Just be warned you will probably get upset!
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