Liberty's Crusade (StarCraft, Book 1)

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Summary: Good for Starcraft fans
Review: I've played & loved Starcraft so I decided to buy this book.

The plot covers the first 10 mission of Starcraft, which is great if you have played the game (because you can recognize every place where you fought or every dialog spoken in the briefing room) but otherwise disappointing (the places/units/races/characters are not very well described sometimes).

I think the author did a good job in devloping people like Raynor (a little less good with Kerrignan, but it is the character itself to be difficult to "paint"), and when he have some free space he really makes feel us the world of starcraft (two thumbs up for Liutenant Emily, i.e.)

In few words, if you liked the game buy this, it is well written & so on. The only drawback is thath seldom add something new to the story developed in the game

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Summary: Starcraft: "Liberty's Crusade" #1
Review: This book is a great interpretation of the video game. It takes place in a galaxy not far from our own. It's what I would like to think takes place in the not-too-distant future of our world. Most of the story takes place in space on huge spaceships. The enemy is the Confederacy of Man, a corrupt government organization that wants galactic domination. The narrator and main character is Danny Liberty, also called Mike. He's a reporter on the planet Tarsonis. If anyone has played the game before, you'll notice that most of the missions that you participate in intertwine with the events that reside in this book. This book introduces the Zerg and Protoss race, and describes them in full detail. What I like about this book is that it takes you a lot deeper into the Starcraft world than the game does. You get to find out what happened behind the scenes and why things happened the way they did. I recommend this book to anyone who's a fan of Starcraft, or anyone who likes galactic conflict novels.

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Summary: No Substance
Review: I bought this book because I am a fan of Starcraft. If you are also a fan of Starcraft, chances are you will like this book. It brings you back into the wonderfully designed game with the ongoing war between Humans, the Protoss, and the Zerg. If you want to pick up this book solely for your love of SciFi or you are looking for a well-written novel, then I would definitely not recommend this title. The descriptions of the Zerg are almost non-existent, and unless you actually played the game, you will not get a full understanding of what the Zerg look like or how menacing they really are. The character depth is almost adequate, but I would have expected more from an author that actually creates these worlds in his imagination every day. Suspense is also at a minimum since some of the scenes in the novel are glossed over so quickly you don't even get a chance to feel any emotion at all. There are also some very serious grammatical errors in the book which, at times, confuse the reader. I agree with the guy above - I think the author just wanted to get paid for doing almost nothing. He should stick to creating games.

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Summary: Starcraft Liberty's Crusade (Starcraft, Book 1)
Review: Only kids that love the game may like this book. This book is infantile and very little thought was put into writting it. Either Jeff Grubb is a really bad writer or he just got lazy and decided to get paid for doing nothing. This is worse than the stories in the Blizzard manual that come with the game. The first WarCraft book is actually faily good.

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Summary: What a Disappointment!
Review: This book is a real disappointment. To StarCraft fans and not. I happen to be a StarCraft fan and this book has no real dramatic point it, except near the end, but who couldn't see that! If you don't understand the game though. This is a great item to help whats happening in the game!

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Summary: Not as good as it seems
Review: I thought that the book Liberty's Crusade, by Jeff Grubb, was an okay book. I would rate it about three out of five because it didn't exactly have the greatest plot. The author went into pretty good detail about the characters and the setting, which gave you a better visual idea of what was happening. In the book it seemed like you needed to have knowledge of the video game "Star Craft" because that is what everything in the book is based on. Most of the main characters were from that game. I think Jeff Grubb is very, very creative. I think the book could have been more entertaining. Overall the book was okay but could have been better.