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Summary: The best of the Dell books
Review: This is a must-read for any fans of Babylon 5 who want to understand what happened to Commander Sinclair after he left the Babylon 5 station. It does an excellent job of providing supplemental information to the television series, tying in very nicely with it (I can't think of any contradictions between the series and the book).
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Summary: Fantasiic must-read
Review: This is a wonderfully crafted masterpirece. It helps me understand a great deal about Minbari culture and society. It also shows how valuable our humanity is to us.
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Summary: The Best B5 book!
Review: This is my favorite Babylon 5 book. It's well written and has a great plot. My favorite episodes were War Without End parts one and two and the rest of season 1. This book ties in well with those episodes. I only wish I could read more about Valen after he goes back in time. This is the only Babylon 5 book that has brought me to tears. A very good book for any season 1 or 3 fan.
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Summary: Simply One of the Best Books Written
Review: This is one of the best books I have read and easily the best Babylon 5 book. It not only ties in what happens to Sinclair after he leaves Bablyon 5, but you feel like you get to know the characters personally as you read through the novel. There is only one question that remains unanswered for me, what is the rest of the story bewteen Sinclair/Valen. If you can only read one Babylon 5 novel, To Dream In The City Of Sorrows is the one to read.
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Summary: Valen! Valen! Valen!!
Review: This is the kind of book you can just sink your teeth into. It started off a little slow for my taste, but Drennan really fascinated me with the intrigues of Minbar and the story of the Rangers. I'd always been fascinated by the mysterious paladins of Babylon 5, and felt cheated when Crusade didn't feature them at all. But it's a real cheat that the novel ends so soon! There's a wealth of material that could be covered here. I felt the training of the Rangers could have been a little more in depth. But that's a minor complaint. I sincerely hope she plans a sequel, perhaps detailing the life of Valen, and the early days of the Rangers? Please, Ms. Drennan, do us all a service and answer the question that all listeners ask the storyteller. " What happens next? "
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Summary: A romp on Minbari for Ranger lovers!
Review: This is the novel for B5 fans who crave more material on the Rangers, and even more so if they've wanted to see some action on Delenn's home planet. TV fans will recall allusions to Commander Sinclair having ended up on Minbari after Sheridan replaces him on Babylon 5; but here is the story in depth about what happened to him next "offscreen". Learn how a human can end up leading a Minbari warrior cult; thrill to a classic battle between Sinclair and a Minbari martial Master; bite your nails as Sinclair's beloved Catherine risks all. Did I like it? You betcha, and I'm a hard-core Babylon fan. Lots of action, loving attention to details, plenty of new revelations and good continuity of characters. Enjoy.
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Summary: A Character-Driven Story
Review: This story fills in the gap of Jeffery Sinclair's life from the end of Season 1 to the middle of Season 3 of Babylon 5. If you're looking for action, go elsewhere. The story's focus is on how Sinclair's paradigm was altered, a change not explained on the show. The novel succeeds in doing what it was intended to, and leaves the reader wanting more, as good writing should. If you were intrigued by the Sinclair character or just want to fill in the gaps of the B5 story, this book is worth it. BUT BE WARNED! This book is a spoiler if you haven't seen the season 3 episodes "WAR WITHOUT END" parts 1&2. Great book, though.
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Summary: The Lost Episodes, in book form
Review: This was an incredible book. Fitting seamlessly into the Babylon 5 story arc, it tells the story of Jeffery Sinclair's first days as Earth's new ambassador to the Minbari, and how he came to be leader of the Rangers and later Entil'Zha. Plus, it also reveals how Marcus Cole became a ranger and what happened to Catherine Sakai. I really liked how there were references and tie-ins to the stories in the B5 comic books produced by DC, and this book answers a lot of questions about them as well. Slight spoiler: In fact, after reading this book, you'll have an idea as to what Valen meant in his final message found aboard Babylon 4 in DC's mini-series "In Valen's Name". So if you're a Babylon 5 fan, and you haven't read this book yet, do it. Now. Strongly recommended.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Those of you who read the first of the "Babylon 5" books and were discouraged enough to not continue, take heart. Here is a book truly worthy of being read. If you are a fan of the show, this is a book NOT TO BE MISSED! Even if it did not answer questions many of us have been asking that the TV show has not answered, the writing is crisp, flows well, and there are no inconsistencies with the TV universe - it would still be worthwhile. I am far too familiar with Babylon 5 to venture whether someone who has not read the series would enjoy the book, but I think so
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Summary: not a must-have
Review: To be perfectly frank, I cannot help wondering whether the fifty people who rated this book five stars and called it the best they'd ever read, read the same book as I did.
I had to force myself to even finish it, and I've always liked Sinclair and the resolution of his arc in 'War Without End'. The story offers neither surprises nor tension, the romantic subplot seems forced, even distracting, as far as Sinclair's character development is concerned. What's more, for me Drennan's take on the events on Minbar doesn't even satisfactory fill the blank between the end of S1 and Sinclair's reappearance in S3; rather it makes it harder to connect the Sinclair at the end of the book with the man in 'War Without End'.
The style is flat and uninspired, the story-telling lacks B5's trademark subtlety, twists and emotional impact: every thought and emotion is spelled out in excruciating detail; the repetitions are endless: e.g., Sinclair's "the arrow that springs from the bow" metaphor is horribly overused in a way that doesn't even make sense.
MJS describes his wife as 'relentlessly logical' in his introduction, he also mentions 'late-night conversations, too many to number'. One wonders if the book might not have been better if its author had not been in such close association with B5's creator and had focused a little more on story-telling instead of attempting to logically tie up each and every loose thread.
If not for the fact that this is Drennan's first novel, it would have been one star.
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