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A review by meisterkleister
Tamer: King of Dinosaurs 6 by Michael-Scott Earle
4.0
Not as good as 5 but still great
(**some spoilers ahead**)
I love the characters, action, tension, and especially the climax. Overall another great entry in the series and I'm dying to know what happens next!
As for criticisms, I do feel like the praise heaped upon Victor became a bit too self-indulgent, possibly because it came from Emerald. (I could always see how Trel was doing it as a sort of overcompensation for denigrating him when they first met.)
I also feel like his journey from a meek animal catcher into a trained assassin here could have been developed a bit better. (I know he killed that blade-ring guy with his trike, plus those guys who had Tannin in self-defense, among others.) But stalking and murdering someone up-close with your own hands is something else still. I think giving the first kills at least a bit more weight would help raise the tension and sympathy.
Now I'm getting nitpicky, but the way he described his strategy game skills bothered me. He could just said something like "I placed among the top 5 percentile in North America" and be done with it, but he went on for a bit too long repeating the "Korean player" joke from a previous book.
And finally I thought the torture scene was gratuitous and awkward. Nothing to do with politics, as I could understood the torture scene in the "Re:Monster" manga where the protagonist tortured one dissenter in front of a crowd in order to set an example and scare them into obedience. Getting vital information could be another defendable purpose for torture. But torturing someone because Emerald sacrificed her clone and gave Victor a huge scare?
I think the scene could be improved had Victor simply clubbed him to death out of anger within a minute or two (like Kratos from God of War does it sometimes) instead of deliberate torture. And then not dwell much on it afterwards. I fear the abyss is gazing back into Victor.
These are just my small, personal gripes out of hundreds of pages of awesomeness. I love this series which is why I may sound harsh.
(**some spoilers ahead**)
I love the characters, action, tension, and especially the climax. Overall another great entry in the series and I'm dying to know what happens next!
As for criticisms, I do feel like the praise heaped upon Victor became a bit too self-indulgent, possibly because it came from Emerald. (I could always see how Trel was doing it as a sort of overcompensation for denigrating him when they first met.)
I also feel like his journey from a meek animal catcher into a trained assassin here could have been developed a bit better. (I know he killed that blade-ring guy with his trike, plus those guys who had Tannin in self-defense, among others.) But stalking and murdering someone up-close with your own hands is something else still. I think giving the first kills at least a bit more weight would help raise the tension and sympathy.
Now I'm getting nitpicky, but the way he described his strategy game skills bothered me. He could just said something like "I placed among the top 5 percentile in North America" and be done with it, but he went on for a bit too long repeating the "Korean player" joke from a previous book.
And finally I thought the torture scene was gratuitous and awkward. Nothing to do with politics, as I could understood the torture scene in the "Re:Monster" manga where the protagonist tortured one dissenter in front of a crowd in order to set an example and scare them into obedience. Getting vital information could be another defendable purpose for torture. But torturing someone because Emerald sacrificed her clone and gave Victor a huge scare?
I think the scene could be improved had Victor simply clubbed him to death out of anger within a minute or two (like Kratos from God of War does it sometimes) instead of deliberate torture. And then not dwell much on it afterwards. I fear the abyss is gazing back into Victor.
These are just my small, personal gripes out of hundreds of pages of awesomeness. I love this series which is why I may sound harsh.