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Title: Hidden Empire (The Saga of the Seven Suns, Book 1) by Kevin J. Anderson ISBN: 0-446-61057-7 Publisher: Aspect Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.37 (27 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: up there with Dune Foundaition Lord of the Rings
Comment: THE GOOD: Okay i have been a Krvin J. Anderson fan for a long time. With his Star Wars books and Dune preuquils, (which for the record are definatly worth your time, not Frank Herbert but what would you expect), about three quarters of this first book is meticulas explaining and suttle plotting for book two and presumably the rest of the siries. However if you stick with it you will be dazzeled. It has all the political and social intregue of Dune, and all the wierd aliens and space battles of Star wars.
THE BAD:As i said before this perticular installment tries too get all the intracate explaining of charectors/cultures/plot/races/technollagy, (which there are QUITE a few of them), in about the first half of the book which can beacome quite dry, a few times i almost put it down, but in the end through second book the payoff is huge.
THE UGLY: Don't trust me with a mere seven dollars, Go to Kevin's websit(www.wordfire.com) send him an envelopeand he'll GIVE YOU A FREE SIGHNED HARCOVER. To good to be true, i thought so to until mine came in the mail!
Rating: 2
Summary: The purpose of this book was to sell sequels.
Comment: While the story of the book wasn't all that bad, it ended in a way that made me feel cheated. While one expects the first book in a series not to tie up all loose ends, it is expected that there will be some kind of conclusion. Cutting off the story in the middle of an action sequence is a pitiful attempt to ensure that the reader will buy the sequel. While the "to be continued" bit may play with soap opera audiences, science fiction readers are a bit more discerning.
Rating: 2
Summary: No need for a sequel
Comment: I usually don't like to type bad reviews, but this book just plain didn't do it for me. The plot itself, how a futuristic galactic society must deal with an overwhelming and incomprehensible threat, was a good one and caused me to buy the book in the first place. I generally like Alien Invasion stories and from reading the cover, it seemed like this one had the makings of a great read.
Boy, was I ever wrong.
To sum it up, the book starts slow and goes nowhere fast. The author seems to be writing a sci-fi version of Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" series, but instead of introducing us to a few detailed characters at a time, he throws a whole slew of them at you, each one telling their story in 3-5 pages at a time. Just as you start getting the feel for the character, the chapter ends and a new character comes into play. Usually on a whole different planet and at a different time, so there's no consistency with the plot development. Now, combine that with terrible writing, and an ever increasingly illogical plot and it just makes for a very mediocre read. I have no intention of buying the sequel (IT'S IN HARDBACK!!!!! Like anyone would buy this in hardback??!!), so don't look for any further reviews on this series.
As soon as I forced myself to finish it, in the vain hope it would get better, I read Walter Jon Williams Dread Empire Fall: The Praxis, which is also the first book in a series and I breathed this HUGE sigh of relief. It is such a pleasure to read a good book after finishing a bad one. Sorry Mr. Anderson, I guess you should stick to copying Star Wars novels or whatever it was you were doing before writing Hidden Empire.
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Title: A Forest of Stars (Saga of Seven Suns, Book 2) by Kevin J. Anderson ISBN: 0446528714 Publisher: Aspect Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Machine Crusade (Dune Series) by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson ISBN: 076530158X Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Ilium by Dan Simmons ISBN: 0380978938 Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Golden Age by John C. Wright ISBN: 0812579844 Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Pub. Date: 14 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Orphans of Earth by Sean Williams, Shane Dix ISBN: 0441010067 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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