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Summary: love of starcraft
Review: If you are one of those who thrills when someone says starcraft, you will like thisbook. Although I cannot say, it is a perfect book for literature, I enjoyed while reading all the stuff I am familiar from the original game. Most important is, as people are talking about a new version of starcraft to be released in some near future, you will find some clues about the possible new races in this book. It is a readable book, sci-fi and/or starcraft fans will enjoy.
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Summary: The end of the Starcraft series as we know it.
Review: If you're addicted to Starcraft books, reading this book will take you off the addiction. It stinks. It's juvenile and it doesn't follow any of the Starcraft rules or things established in the game.It's also as shallow as a 'straight-to-video' ka-ka-fest, with it's "and they all lived happily ever after" ending. I'll never read another Starcraft book again. In fact, I'll never read a Gabriel Mesta book.
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Summary: Very very disappointing.
Review: It's obvious after the first few short chapters, that although the writer may have done his research on the Starcraft world, he's not well-acquainted with it. The book DOES NOT fit into the continuity of the Starcraft world. It reads more like the writer got a few profiles of some races and decided to do whatever he wanted with them to keep his plot moving, which is not a good idea considering a majority of readers are probably Starcraft fans. (A Queen does not control the drones...)
But the worst offense in this book is that it's BORING and painful to read. Thankfully, it's short, but at the end of every 3-page chapter, I wanted to put the book down for good. I'd pick it up thinking, it'll get better later -- it didn't. LIBERTY'S CRUSADE (the first book), had its fault but it's a Starcraft novel through and through. SHADOW OF THE XEL'NAGA only has a few cameos of two characters from Starcraft and does very very very little characterization of any of the new or old characters. And a ROVERLISK (a dog-zerg)? C'mon! If you're going to invent new zergs, at least make them interesting. If I knew then what I know now, I never would've spent money on this book.
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Summary: If I could give it only a half-star, I would.
Review: One word: Disappointment. Okay, maybe two words: Boring. You would think from the title that this book would delve into the Starcraft background. Xel'Naga - the creator of the Protoss and Zerg. But in fact, there's nothing here about the races. No background, no insight. It's almost as if the author didn't research the Starcraft universe and filled out a "Sci-Fi Mad Libs" where they said in this formulaic story <insert alien race name here>. Example: "And all of a sudden three aliens lunged at her. It wasn't long before <insert alien race here> infiltrated the old man's shack." It also seems to be written by a juvenile. I have a feeling that all the "4 star" reviews here are planted by the publisher and author, because it's obvious they don't know any more about the Starcraft universe than the author did.
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Summary: For ages 3 and up
Review: Reading this was like playing Monopoly - with yourself! And with only the estates between Go! and Jail. It's short, unfulfilling and boring. The characters are cardboard stereotypes and the action is boring. If they wanted a science fiction writer, why couldn't they get a real one like Timothy Zahn?
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Summary: Whats everyones deal?
Review: Reading through the reviews made me pause for a minute, and get the shock out of my head? Such bad reviews! I must say that it IS the worst one of the series. But give them the benefit of the doubt. Its a pretty action based book, with nice characters, quotes from the campaign, and much more. Characters you recognize jump in and out of the story, such as General Duke, The Queen of Blades, Xerana, and of course that b*st*rd :) Arcturus Mengsk. Its a compelling story with great mystery's. Though the ending kind of made me sad, for it did not fit with StarCraft AT ALL. Roverlisks? Giant phoenix thing? What the hell? I must say the husband wife duo obviousely were not very big starcraft fans. Aparently X-File fans and probably got most of their stuff from KJA's former X-files books. Over all it wasn't that bad. I give it three stars. Libery's Crusade a nice 4 stars and of course Speed of Darkness 5 ( 10 if possible ) stars. :)
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Summary: What a ripoff!
Review: Someone tells me there's another Starcraft book. Cool! I read that Kevin Anderson wrote it. You can't miss! And then I finish the book with tears in my eyes because I can't believe I wasted 2 days reading it. I feel jipped. Don't make my mistake. Don't bother reading it.
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Summary: written in 1 hour and it shows
Review: the book be short and it be quick to read. nothing much can be said about it besides being boring and has almost nothing to do with the game. it's as if the writer couldn't be bothered to take the time to even study the game. i study more for my social studies class than mr. mesta. but at least it be short. i wasn't too disappointed because i didn't pay for the book.
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Summary: Not bad
Review: The book was pretty good for people who want to know some more about starcraft.
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Summary: not too bad
Review: the characters are really boring and the style is pretty bad. But after the part where u would rather die then read on, it does actually get better. i read the other reviews about this book and so far most of them are right, the first book was way better. i mean there's little or no humor in the entire book, well maybe except the end and there's not much that's really interesting. well on the other hand it's pretty faithful with the actual game in general giving u specifics about units and stuff. the thing i disliked most about the book is the main character, she's not very believable. It's like the author didn't have enough space to gradually adapt her to new situations so didn't bother to. I wouldn't recommend this book for a casual read unless u've never played the game b4 or havent played it in a while.
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