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Feels a Little Forced Advantages: Plenty of action Disadvantages: Missing some of the human touch At the end of "Firemask", the second book in Chris Bunch's "Last Legion" series, there seemed to be only one direction the series could go in. Throughout the previous two books, Protector Redruth of Larix and Kura has been a floating menace and the Legion needs to take care of the threat he poses. Catching a Larissan spy on Cumbre gives the Legion an idea and Njangu Yoshitaro is sent in as a double agent. Whilst his mission goes well, Garvin Jaansma ... ...Yoshitaro's subsequent release of the Cambrian prisoners and his own escape alerts Protector Redruth that something may be wrong. So once again, the Legion is going to war. Whilst this will seem familiar to existing fans, if this is all new to you, this isn't the book to be reading. Bunch is conscious that he is writing a series and plunges straight into the action with a new book without pausing to recap the events from previous books. Occasionally ... Soho_Black 06.04.2008 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Stormforce (Last Legion 3) - Chris Bunch	Would you read it again? Story Characters Readability How does it compare to ...
The best things come in small packages Advantages: You can get your Dresden Files fix with a whole new plot Disadvantages: Not as witty as previous novels Hello everyone! Long time no review! Now i'm on my summer holidays, i can catch up on my "to review" list, and i figure, where's the best place to start than with my favourite author, Jim Butcher's, latest enstallment of the Dresden Files? If you look at my reviews, you'll find a full 8 of them on this series ( i didn't review White Night as SohoBlack reviewed it first, and i agree with his opinions) So....Small Favour. the 10th Drseden Files novel. ... ...is. What else have we come to expect from Butcher? Once again, Dresden, the wizard investigator in Chicago is on the trail of killers and kidnappers, and finding himself generally out of his depth. As the last novel required a little thinking on the readers behalf (all those badddies could get a bit confusing), in this enstalment, Butcher is simplifying the plot by showing clearly who the bad guys are: with the added bonus of the reader having already ... super-t 03.07.2008 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Small Favour - Jim Butcher	Would you read it again? Story Characters Readability How does it compare to ...
Overcrowded rats go psycho Advantages: Stylistically cool, sociologically inspiring, good action and characters Disadvantages: First couple of pages are incomprehensible, get past them and you are cruising. Brunner wrote this book 30 years ago, and it is a startling accomplishment. He may have got the timescale wrong, as he describes the world of 2010, but he hit the trends on the head and did it in a startlingly original way. The world he describes is overcrowded to breaking point, where people put under intolerable strain by the population density and eugenic and reproductive laws live lives of not-so-quiet desperation. The pressures are kept in ... ...as hobby, in everyday people regularly running amok and killing indiscriminately until they are shot down, in elaborate attention to fashion and consumer consumption. Power lies in the hands of huge corporations, decisions are effectively made by the semi-intelligent computers that advise them. Government murder, genetics, drugs and status are the key ingredients. All this comes to a head with a handful of wonderfully vivid characters being forced ... Gervase 28.11.2000 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner	Would you read it again? Story Characters Readability How does it compare to ...
An official Star Wars novel Advantages: Cheap to buy. Drawing of Ewan McGregor on the front! Disadvantages: Difficult to read in places, needs prior "Star Wars" knowledge ...Steven Barnes is an official Star Wars novel. It originally came out on hardback in June 2004. I was given a copy of this last year but it came out in paperback in June 2005 and a brand new copy costs about £6 on Amazon. Second-hand copies are also available. I found this rather long book very difficult to read but here is my interpretation of it. The action in the story takes place between "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones" and "Episode ... ...Kenobi and Jedi master Kit Fisto. The basic plot is that Obi-Wan Kenobi and Kit Fisto lead a team of clone troopers to a difficult situation brewing on the manufacturing world of Ord Cestus. They have gone there because they have found that a new Jedi-killing droid is on the market and is produced on Cestus. The Confederacy - also known as Separatists - has shown a definite interest in buying these weapons. In other words, the Confederacy could ... Mel27 01.08.2005 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Star Wars: The Cestus Deception - Steven Barnes	Would you read it again? Story Characters Readability How does it compare to ...
It is not just about football! Advantages: It's very funny, and oh so true! Disadvantages: None The Disc, for those who don't know, continues to float in space, supported by the elephants who ride the back of the great swimming turtle A'tuin. The Hub about which the planet spins is a centre of great magic, and best avoided if you want to live a happy and contented life. At the outer perimeter is the great circle sea which unendingly streams over the rim into the void, which is best avoided if you want to continue to live at all. Most Discians ... ...Smeems, for instance, is the Candle Nave at the Unseen University. He has to worry about keeping the candles not just alight, but properly melted, artistically, gothicly, dribbled, as it were. Of course, there's Trevor to help. And there's Nutt. With two t's. Trevor Likely has a tendency to skive off work whenever possible, and to kick a tin can around. His dad was a legend. Nutt is… well, no-one's quite sure what Nutt is, even him. Goblin isn't ... hiker 07.12.2009 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of The Unseen Academicals - Terry Pratchett	Would you read it again? Story Characters Readability How does it compare to ...