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Summary: This is the way the world ends?
Review: I love everything McCaffrey writes, honestly. I just happened to re-read the entire Talent series right before picking this one up. I have to admit to a penchant for tidy endings, and this book failed to deliver on that.But overall, it's a good read. The characters are familiar, and a few new ones are thrown in for interest.
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Summary: Disappointment
Review: I have long believed that McCaffrey can do no wrong but "The Tower and The Hive" just didn't do it for me. Admittedly, there were some wonderful moments but nothing to compare to "The Rowan" or even "Damia's Children." Maybe she lost something by having many main characters instead of one as in "Damia", it didn't show in "Lyon's Pride." I honestly wish that I never read this book -that I had left that universe to my own imagination because I got no sense of closure for the end of this series. I came away without any satisfaction. Don't bother reading this unless you really like Zara since this is the first time you really get to see her. Read "To Ride Pegasus" or "Pegasus In Flight," earlier books set in the same universe.
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Summary: McCaffrey's Worst Ever
Review: This book is a disgrace. Too many characters to keep track of easily, stupid and contrived situations, irrational plot, insipid dialog--this is a travesty of what McCaffrey has offered her fans (and I'm one) in the past. I can't believe this tired and totally worthless trash is hers. She should be ashamed of herself.
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Summary: Not horrible, but not great either
Review: Warning - this review contains some spoilers as to events in the book. No names are named, but I do give some things away. To keep people from accidentally seeing those, the next paragraph is mainly a gripe session about the decreased quality of McCaffrey's writing. I feel that McCaffrey has started to lose her "sense of wonder"; either that or my expectations have increased since I began reading her books almost ten years ago. To be fair, I have not read the Acorna or Catteni books, so maybe she is concentrating her energy there. Anyway - a gay person falling in love with a straight person? After it was repeatedly emphasized in the previous book in the series that he was gay, I had a hard time buying into that turn of events. There was no suspense as to the eventual outcome - although McCaffrey is not one for unhappy endings, this for me is more a calm, soothing book that I can read before bedtime to fall asleep than one in which I can take any real pleasure in. I could write more, but it would mainly boil down to this: If you must purchase this book, buy the paperback. And don't expect too much.
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Summary: Still worth a read.
Review: I am an Anne McCaffrey fan and have all her books and although this won't be in my list of top ten books; it is still a good read. It does continue the story begun by Rowan and it does tie up some loose ends. Personally, I thought the pheromone solution was quite ingenious!
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Summary: Not bad but should have been deeper - better developed.
Review: I'm hooked on the series so I couldn't wait to have the book. But, it was too fluffy, just like a news letter, catching up on what everyone was up to but no deep development of the characters or further "revelations" dealing with the alien creatures. I'd prefer a smaller meatier book focusing on two or three main characters with a "fluffy" cast around them.
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Summary: Only bother if the other books hooked you
Review: *To Ride Pegasus* and *Pegasus in Flight* were the two first books I read by Anne McCaffrey. I thought they were wonderful. When I found *The Rowan* I read it as fast as I could; the same with *Damia* and *Damia's Children.* By the time I got to *Lyon's Pride,* I was slowing down a bit. Or else, Ms. McCaffrey was. I prefer to believe it was her, because I can still read the first books and love them as much as before. I read *The Tower and the Hive* because I had so much enjoyed the stories of the Rowan and Damia that I wanted to know what happened to their children, and not so much because I was interested in the children themselves. Which is a shame. The story here is obviously a continuation of what happened in *Lyon's Pride.* Very little that is new is introduced. The characters and their relationships are not as developed as in previous books; mostly, you must rely on what you remember from those stories to get any feeling of family dynamics. The short of it is, I only made it all the way through this book because I wanted to know what happened to Damia and the Rowan (who only make cameo appearances in this book). To use a movie analogy, I felt a little like I went to see a two-hour documentary on insect pheromones, just because I knew there was a 5 second comment made by my favorite Hollywood actress.
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Summary: Mediocre for McCaffrey
Review: If you've read the previous books, then the first quarter gets very repetitive, continually recapping on the past story, as already explained in the preface! The characters are mainly as in Lyon's Pride - and the few new ones are not well developed. The plotting against FT&T doesn't come to much. And who does "The Nose" think he is? - claiming the credit for the pheremone solution - though that solution seemed pretty weak! Basically it would be nice if AnneMcCaffrey would rewrite completely! There could have been some good plots and twists, much better than actually occured. However, all said and done, McCaffrey is still a good read.
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Summary: Bit space dust!
Review: Practically no plot! Definately wait till it comes out in paperback, or support your local library and donate your copy! This could have been written in a novella. Pheremones--I think there could have been a more original method of fixing both problems.
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Summary: Bad
Review: really disapointing. I could not discern a plot. Sure there were things that happened but no single thread that held this last book together. McCaffrey owes it to her fans to finish this series right and not leave this bad taste in our mouths.
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