Nova (2)

I still can't believe I saw this one through to the end. The most clichéd characters ever written. All of whom should be considered white unless otherwise specified, and they will DEFINITELY BE specified. "They rolled the black soldier over..." "The Hispanic woman asked..." yeesh.

And the author is an unbelievable horndog; every other line seemed to reference "good-looking women" or getting to sleep with his hot ASIAN girlfriend (or his disappointment when she, perhaps rightly upset over observing violence and death, just wants to be held by the narrator). Women exist in the story simply to reinforce the necessity of the Bechtel Test.

As for story, it's somehow both too intricate and mind-numbingly vague. Collapse, sort of maybe? Some authority but its total absence? A random interlude and some killings at a possibly-renegade-possibly-not hidden army base in West Virginia, never to be spoken of again?

I've already spent far more time on this review than the book deserves. But jeez, is it this easy to be published?… (meer)

So this is part 3 I have bought them all mostly because they don't have them at my Library. I have mixed feelings because I just tore through the book and the others before them. Though I am a strong 2nd amendement guy I see gardner as a my way or die kind of thing, I also find it hard to believe his choice of weapons and in this book the addition of the sword. It seems that they go looking for trouble sometimes. The supernatural ellement does add to the book but it takes away from why I picked the series up to begin with.

Bottom like would I read it? Only if you really like this topic, whatever that may be.… (meer)