War (Aliens Vs. Predator, Book 3) by S. D. Perry, Randy Stradley
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Book Reviews of War (Aliens Vs. Predator, Book 3)
Book Review: Well at least its better then the last one
Summary: 2 Stars
From all the other reviews I have seen I agree with Cody Menzies the most. The only two things that made me finish this book was the fact that it is a AvP novel and that it continues the Aliens: Berserker storline. However it is still a vast improvement to the last book, of which I feel should not even be in print any more. S.D. Perry is a great writer and should be able to do better then this. The first one was great so what I want to know is what went wrong? But as soon as you get by the errors in this story you will be in for a some what pleasing read. Just don't go thinking you are going to like it as much as Prey or Berserker.Book Review: What happened here...
Summary: 1 Stars
To start off, I'll clear up what appears to be confusing some people, and then I'll write the review. This book takes place BEFORE Bischoff's Hunter Planet. It fills in the time when Noguchi was with the Predators, before she rejoined human society. So there.Now, the review -- This book, frankly, stunk. Picking up right after Aliens: Berserker, a year after AvP: Prey, and two years before AvP: Hunter's Planet, War was just a short, silly, boring waste of time and money.
The characters from Berserker were still the same, still recognizable, but with roughly ninety pages to divide between the three of them, we just didn't get enough of them. Not to mention that through 2/3 of the book they were just sitting in an escape pod...As I've said, the only part of this book, besides the cover, that was any good was the two pages or so of Nirasawa and his revenge programming. Good stuff.
This book has so much potential, and it was just a huge dissapointment to read. I'd recommend staying away from this one.
Book Review: Let's forget this book ever happened.
Summary: 1 Stars
When AVP:War came out by SD Perry after 4 yrs when she wrote the first AvP: Prey novel, I was overjoyed that she came back to write another novel. Gee I was sorely disappointed. The book failed to follow the timeline of the series. The Predators were underated, the Marine main characters overated and overemphasized, and you hardly ever see Machiko (hardly had a role and her character was misdeveloped) in the book. Some of the Pred characters are back from the book Hunter's Planet by David Bishoff. But how can that be (Those who read Hunter's Planet would know what I mean). Aliens were harly in it either. Lack of consistency with the AvP novel timeline as well as lack of species development; as well as a lack of character dev. and epilogue in addition. I have been a AVP fan for a long time and well I was dismayed to say the least. Maybe she should go back and write Resident Evil novels, she wrote those well anyway.Book Review: Sliced, diced and tasteless...
Summary: 1 Stars
First, as other reviews have pointed out, this is the third published book, but the events happen between book one and book two. Also, it is based on the graphic novel, with many of the best parts removed. With only 209 pages a lot of stuff just did not make it into the novel - but the stuff they cut out was either very important or really cool. What we get as a result is somewhat bland, like pudding without any flavor. Good to fill in the time between GOOD books, but nothing to bother with. Start with Prey and end with Hunter's Planet. DON'T get this book, new, used, downloaded. Just don't.