Predator: Forever Midnight
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Dark Horse Number of pages: 250 Language: English (Original Language) Language: English (Unknown) Language: English (Published) |
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Yup, not a good "Predator" book at all.
Review date: 2008-06-22 Rating: 2 out of 10
I'm going to have to agree with the majority, here. And most of the other reviews detail some good reasons why this is a bad "Predator" novel.
If you're a big fan of the "Predator," "Aliens," and "Aliens vs. Predator" franchises, you will NOT enjoy this book. This is yet another case (Jeter's "The Bounty Hunter Wars" Trilogy is another example) of a successful author getting hold of a long-established property . . . and then ignoring everything that's gone before, making stuff up as he goes along. If it weren't for the "Predator" name on the cover, I wouldn't have recognised the aliens in the book as such.
On its own, after a re-write and some new menacing baddies, this might've made a pretty good stand-alone novel. But as a "Predator" book, "Forever Midnight" just doesn't cut it.
Reviews
lots of imagination, plenty of scenarios.
Review date: 2008-06-17 Rating: 8 out of 10
these books are comic-bookish. and this one has more about it than most of its kind. John Shirley is a decent writer of this stuff.
i think the other reviewers are being persnickety
Worst book ever
Review date: 2007-05-24 Rating: 2 out of 10
Do not buy this book, im still struggling to finsh it.
It feels like there is no relation to the predators at all.The characters just dont grip you and you dont feel any emotion towrds them
The Concrete Jungle series were the best. Avoid!!
Predator: Forget Everything
Review date: 2006-06-24 Rating: 2 out of 10
I have been a fan of everything aliens vs predator for over 10 years now. After the disapointing AvP film I felt I really needed something to rekindle my interests. So I bought this and Aliens: DNA War. Let me say now, I hate this book. The author seems like the most ignorant person on Earth. There is an awful lot of canon in the AvP universe, but he seems to ignore it, re-defining the predators as how he sees fit. For example in the first predator film and most of the books, predators won't attack the unarmed. Here? Fair game, slaughter anything.
The writing style seems childish, as if the writer just found a thesaurus and went crazy with the big words when describing something. The characters are extremely weakly defined, you feel nothing for them and their actions are completly random.
Do yourself a favour, get one of the older AvP books, Predator: Concrete Jungle is one of the best. Just don't get this.
Worst book I have ever read!
Review date: 2006-06-22 Rating: 2 out of 10
I pre-ordered this book about 4 months before it was published and I couldn't wait to get hold of it. The first few pages were very hopeful. I was almost trembling when I read them. Unfortunately it quickly degenerated into the most ill-thought out nonsense I've ever read. As a comedy, it could almost work, but as a tie in to my favoutire movie franchise I couldn't help but feel insulted, particularly as it's author professes to be a fan.
Highlights include the predators trying to gun down unarmed women and children; using mind control devices to turn humans into hunting dogs and later to turn them into radio-controlled toys for predator kids; predators spouting such compliments to each other as 'may a cool breeze blow across your reproductive organs, oh Devastator of Destinies'; two predators getting stoned aboard ship while their mind-controlled human pet plots to blow them up; and so many other insults to the franchise that I've thankfully forgotten half of them.
Please, I implore you; if you are a fan of the franchise, or even if you have an iota of respect for it, DO NOT READ THIS BOOK!
Product Details/Specifications
Authors:
John Shirley
Recording label: Dark Horse
Manufacturer: Dark Horse
EAN: 9781595820341
Binding: Paperback
Dewey decimal number: 813
ISBN: 1595820345
Number of items: 1
Number of pages: 250
Publication date: 2006-06-07
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: English (Unknown)
Language: English (Published)
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