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Summary: A must for fans!
Review: Lets face it, if you don't like the series you won't buy the books.However, fans of the show will find them enlightening! The novel forms of the series takes on the same feel of the program. You would be forgiven for believing Collins wrote some of the episodes, these novels are as good! While reading, we are given insight to the questions that we were left with at the end of "freak nation". Well worth a read!
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Summary: If you can?t trust your friends, who?s left but your enemies
Review: Miss the series? Collins hits a homer again (his first being the excellent prequel "Before the Dawn"), this time picking up right where the series finale leaves off. The transgenic population of Terminal City has defiantly raised its "Freak Nation" flag but finds itself under siege by an increasingly trigger-happy cordon of police and National Guard. Ames White (still seething over his failure at the Jam Pony hostage incident) has pulled Detective Clemente from negotiation duty, and has upped the stakes by waging a P.R. war designed to blame a series a grisly murders on the transgenics. Max settles, uncomfortably but competently, into the leadership role that has been thrust upon her; though her allies are never far behind, public fear and distrust are threatening to spiral completely out of control. Prominent characters include Logan, Joshua, Original Cindy, Sketchy, Mole, Detective Clemente, and of course Alec (though it's more than halfway through the book before he actually does anything). Ames White isn't much more developed as a character -he's reduced mainly to being nasty and surly to everyone in sight, although his credibility as an NSA agent is rapidly eroding. A new and particularly interesting character is Otto Gottleib, who starts out as a plodding, unimaginative federal agent but has a significant change of heart and becomes (in his own way) quite the hero. The other protagonist, "Kelpy," is a transgenic with a unique backstory and some wonderfully tragic motivation. Well-written, fast-paced, plenty of time for humor and a deepening of Max and Logan's relationship. No, the "targeted virus" plotline is not resolved, nor are Max's mysterious new tattoos or the "finding Sandemann" subplot given any new exposition. And no, no sign of Lydecker either. Nevertheless the story is tight, dramatic, and is exactly what Dark Angel's legions of disappointed fans have been salivating for. Bring on the next one, Mr. Collins!
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Summary: If you can¿t trust your friends, who¿s left but your enemies
Review: Miss the series? Collins hits a homer again (his first being the excellent prequel "Before the Dawn"), this time picking up right where the series finale leaves off. The transgenic population of Terminal City has defiantly raised its "Freak Nation" flag but finds itself under siege by an increasingly trigger-happy cordon of police and National Guard. Ames White (still seething over his failure at the Jam Pony hostage incident) has pulled Detective Clemente from negotiation duty, and has upped the stakes by waging a P.R. war designed to blame a series a grisly murders on the transgenics. Max settles, uncomfortably but competently, into the leadership role that has been thrust upon her; though her allies are never far behind, public fear and distrust are threatening to spiral completely out of control. Prominent characters include Logan, Joshua, Original Cindy, Sketchy, Mole, Detective Clemente, and of course Alec (though it's more than halfway through the book before he actually does anything). Ames White isn't much more developed as a character -he's reduced mainly to being nasty and surly to everyone in sight, although his credibility as an NSA agent is rapidly eroding. A new and particularly interesting character is Otto Gottleib, who starts out as a plodding, unimaginative federal agent but has a significant change of heart and becomes (in his own way) quite the hero. The other protagonist, "Kelpy," is a transgenic with a unique backstory and some wonderfully tragic motivation. Well-written, fast-paced, plenty of time for humor and a deepening of Max and Logan's relationship. No, the "targeted virus" plotline is not resolved, nor are Max's mysterious new tattoos or the "finding Sandemann" subplot given any new exposition. And no, no sign of Lydecker either. Nevertheless the story is tight, dramatic, and is exactly what Dark Angel's legions of disappointed fans have been salivating for. Bring on the next one, Mr. Collins!
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Summary: A great answer to unanswered questions!
Review: Needless to say anyone who watched "Dark Angel" was left with a ton of questions when the series ended. This book helps to answer alot of them and at least free's your minds of the "what if's and how will they?" questions. I highly recommend this book to any "Dark Angel" fan. I also ask that people keep
e-mailing fox until they bring the series back.
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Summary: A great answer to unanswered questions!
Review: Needless to say anyone who watched "Dark Angel" was left with a ton of questions when the series ended. This book helps to answer alot of them and at least free's your minds of the "what if's and how will they?" questions. I highly recommend this book to any "Dark Angel" fan. I also ask that people keep
e-mailing fox until they bring the series back.
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Summary: Alec and Joshua Centerstage
Review: One point about SKIN GAME that I haven't seen mentioned in the previous reviews are how Alec and Joshua get to take centerstage for a great deal of the book. The two transgenics carry the plot throughout the second half of the novel quite admirably, and I applaud Max Allan Collins for continuing to develop my two favorite characters. In fact, there's one lengthy "Alec" scene that I would love to have seen filmed. Read the book and you'll see what I mean.
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Summary: Could be more Max
Review: Overall, I enjoyed this book. But I was somewhat disappointed that there wasn't more Max and her using her transgenic powers. She wasn't in that many of the action scenes, and it was difficult to discern whether she was the protagonist to the story. The plot seemed to be two-fold, of Max's attempt to get all the transgenics accepted into society, and of finding the skinning monster. One have to had seen the TV show to understand some of the references throughout the book, but does well to remind us. Good read for Dark Angel fans.
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Summary: Not too shabby...
Review: This book picks up where the tv show left off. Again the author makes it seem just like the show and revealed some plots and answered some questions that season 3 would have elaborated on. I found it some what like silence of the lambs the more I read but in the end of the book you see why it was so. I again recommend this book to any dark angel fan who was disappointed not to get a season 3.
Rating:
Summary: Not too shabby...
Review: This book picks up where the tv show left off. Again the author makes it seem just like the show and revealed some plots and answered some questions that season 3 would have elaborated on. I found it some what like silence of the lambs the more I read but in the end of the book you see why it was so. I again recommend this book to any dark angel fan who was disappointed not to get a season 3.
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Summary: A wonderful insight into the life of a transgenic besides AM
Review: This book was an absolutley wonderful extension to a wonderful series. I was a little fanatic about it when the series was on and still am and the fact that this book kept with the storyline and with the truth of Manticore and trangenics made it an interesting read.
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