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A review by vinayvasan
Ex-Isle by Peter Clines
3.0
Well it did seem inevitable. Given the extraordinarily high bar, that Clines has set for this series, we would get an installment that wouldnt reach that level.
To be very fair though, Ex-Isles does what the previous books does pretty well. Pack in tons of action, develop the world further and introduce another different villain but 5 books into the series, you want to see an overarching theme and some amount of character development for the lead character who is still pretty cool btw. The new villain is a take on Aquaman and Clines has good fun developing him though his inevitable final conflict resolution is a bit limp and its a strange decision from our heroes.
Corpse Girl and Danielle get a good share of character development. Corpse Girl discovers a bunch of new things about herself while Danielle goes through the wringer being out of armor. The development behind the super soldiers promises to be explored in detail in the upcoming books.
As of now, this book kind of does tread water but still no one does action better than Clines and a reason to pick this book and series up
To be very fair though, Ex-Isles does what the previous books does pretty well. Pack in tons of action, develop the world further and introduce another different villain but 5 books into the series, you want to see an overarching theme and some amount of character development for the lead character who is still pretty cool btw. The new villain is a take on Aquaman and Clines has good fun developing him though his inevitable final conflict resolution is a bit limp and its a strange decision from our heroes.
Corpse Girl and Danielle get a good share of character development. Corpse Girl discovers a bunch of new things about herself while Danielle goes through the wringer being out of armor. The development behind the super soldiers promises to be explored in detail in the upcoming books.
As of now, this book kind of does tread water but still no one does action better than Clines and a reason to pick this book and series up