Rating: 
Summary: As good as the TV series, and brilliantly written
Review: A very exciting, well planned, brilliantly written novel which fits in perfectly with the story arc that B5 fans have come to love. Top notch book, a must read for all B5 fans and a thrilling read for anyone else.
Rating: 
Summary: A Good Read
Review: although this book is no where "Legions Of Fire" or "To Dream in The City of Sorrows". Blood Oath is one of the better books in this series. Slow at time but a great ending. I liked the stuff about the Narn Homeworld. This book takes place when in 2258 (season 1). It was a great side read until "Armies Of Light and Dark" comes out. So I would highly reccomend this book, You have nothing to loose
Rating:
Summary: A Good Read
Review: although this book is no where "Legions Of Fire" or "To Dream in The City of Sorrows". Blood Oath is one of the better books in this series. Slow at time but a great ending. I liked the stuff about the Narn Homeworld. This book takes place when in 2258 (season 1). It was a great side read until "Armies Of Light and Dark" comes out. So I would highly reccomend this book, You have nothing to loose
Rating: 
Summary: Good story grafted into B5 universe
Review: As I type this there have been about 15 novels published that are set in the B5 universe. This is one of the first nine, a series initially released by Dell but now being rolled out, one by one, in rerelease by Del Rey's Ballantine series."Blood Oath" takes place mostly on the Narn homeworld, a place not often seen during the TV series. It is set somewhere around the end of season 1, during which time the show had focused on the species' recent history of war with the Centauri and the hatred between the two worlds. The author can therefore be forgiven for painting the Narns as barbarians rather than the sophisticated spiritual culture we see from them later on as the primary Narn character G'Kar developed and grew. And the story told here is really a good one. The images painted by the author are often vivid and memorable, and the story believable and easy to follow. He seems to fall down in the action sequences, though, to me, as I often didn't feel the intensity of such scenes. But the real problem with this book is the characterizations of familiar B5 characters. Again, it was early in production of the show, so we now know these individuals far better than anyone but series creator J. Michael Straczynski did at the time, but it's really jarring to see known and beloved characters saying things that are totally out of voice from what we would expect, in terms of phrases, relationships, idioms, etc. Ultimately it feels like the author had a great story and, when given a contract to write a B5 book, slotted the series characters into a general outline he already had, adapting his outline somewhat to fit a vision that otherwise works well. He is clearly not as familiar with the characters as one would like. It's worth reading because it truly is well written as a novel, but falls far short as a part of the B5 universe otherwise.
Rating:
Summary: Good story grafted into B5 universe
Review: As I type this there have been about 15 novels published that are set in the B5 universe. This is one of the first nine, a series initially released by Dell but now being rolled out, one by one, in rerelease by Del Rey's Ballantine series. "Blood Oath" takes place mostly on the Narn homeworld, a place not often seen during the TV series. It is set somewhere around the end of season 1, during which time the show had focused on the species' recent history of war with the Centauri and the hatred between the two worlds. The author can therefore be forgiven for painting the Narns as barbarians rather than the sophisticated spiritual culture we see from them later on as the primary Narn character G'Kar developed and grew. And the story told here is really a good one. The images painted by the author are often vivid and memorable, and the story believable and easy to follow. He seems to fall down in the action sequences, though, to me, as I often didn't feel the intensity of such scenes. But the real problem with this book is the characterizations of familiar B5 characters. Again, it was early in production of the show, so we now know these individuals far better than anyone but series creator J. Michael Straczynski did at the time, but it's really jarring to see known and beloved characters saying things that are totally out of voice from what we would expect, in terms of phrases, relationships, idioms, etc. Ultimately it feels like the author had a great story and, when given a contract to write a B5 book, slotted the series characters into a general outline he already had, adapting his outline somewhat to fit a vision that otherwise works well. He is clearly not as familiar with the characters as one would like. It's worth reading because it truly is well written as a novel, but falls far short as a part of the B5 universe otherwise.
Rating:
Summary: Dead Narn walking
Review: Babylon 5 is a good series, but some episodes are flops. The B5 novel series is good, too, but this book is one of its flops. The story is slow at times, and at other times very interesting. It is mostly boring, although the end is quite good, in contrary with the rest of the novel.
Rating:
Summary: I liked it...
Review: For a small book written for a TV show I think it was not bad. I enjoyed reading about how G'Kar got where he is. It's not all action but that's B5 and that's how I like it.
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Summary: Running around..
Review: I felt the story too one-dimensional and constantly felt that I have read this story somewhere else, with different persons. I don't know if it's just because the story was too predictable or I have been getting deja vu a lot lately.
G'Kar - Na'Toth - Garibaldi novel.
The events take place before "The Coming of Shadows".
Rating:
Summary: A good story
Review: I had to admit from Vornholt's point of view, the Narns are especially easy to compare with the Star Trek's Klingons. Of course wwhen you read the book, the Narns remind you of Klingons. But it is quite entertaining. I was hooked.
Rating:
Summary: A good story
Review: I had to admit from Vornholt's point of view, the Narns are especially easy to compare with the Star Trek's Klingons. Of course wwhen you read the book, the Narns remind you of Klingons. But it is quite entertaining. I was hooked.
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