Aliens Vs Predators War (Aliens Vs. Predator)

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Bantam USA Number of pages: 209 Language: English (Original Language) Language: English (Unknown) Language: English (Published)

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Not as good as the others but its okay... I guess!
Review date: 2005-06-01 Rating: 6 out of 10

Once again, I entered the world of Machiko Noguchi, the aliens and the predators. I had high expectations of this novel after reading the first two classics.
I instantly noticed that this book is set before hunter's planet, therefore any questions I had about the previous novel were sure to be answered. And they were.
However, I found that at points the story line was quite complicated and I often found myself losing interest.
Nonetheless, this book probably had some of the best descriptive writing out of them all as it goes about portraying the mind of a mad man.
There were many parts of the story that reminded me of the splendour of the old books, like Machiko Noguchi in being a very strong, cool character and there are a few traces of humour in this book, but not as much as the originals.
I have to say that on the whole, this book was a little disappointing considering how much I enjoyed its' predecessors. I found that the same old story was being used. The predators fight the aliens and the humans get in the way and get killed themselves, therefore leading to a small group of heroes saving the day. This story line was excellent the first time, good the second, but a bit old the third time round.
Finally, the most annoying thing about this book is that it explains that a certain predator was killed in one way in this book and then a different way in hunter's planet. Call me crazy, but I think that is a little confusing.
I will probably read this book again to try and get a clearer understanding of why this predator died twice.