A review by jerentropic
Deathstalker Rebellion by Simon R. Green

1.0

Utter dreck. In many ways, even worse than the first in the series. Like the first one, repetitive ad nauseum. One dimensional characters who all speak in the same voice. Egregious hyperbole (just how many MOST devastatingly horrible/vicious/evil/dangerous creatures in existence can there be in any one universe, anyway?). Ridiculously long monologues and soliloquies with no point to them. What compounds all these faults is that rather than learning from past mistakes, the author repeats them and and then surpasses them by contradicting himself over and over and over again. Sometimes the contradiction would come a chapter or two after a statement was made, sometimes after a few pages, and some even within the same paragraph. I couldn't finish the thing; was proud for enduring through 400 pages of the monstrosity. It's rare that I feel cheated for paying for a book; but this time I don't simply want compensatory remuneration, I want punitive damages from both the author and the publisher.