Hunter's Planet (Aliens Vs. Predator, Book 2)

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Summary: hmm, doesnt quite cut it...
Review: After reading the first book (prey), I was very excited to find out that a sequel was avalable. Boy was this book a let down! I re-read prey before reading this, and I was disappointed to see how the main character was changed beyond recognition. Might as well given her a new identity, cause she aint the same! The book was extremly slow (not as bad as star wars:children of the jedi though!) and was VERY inconsistant... the predators might have had rubber chickens, cause they sucked hard in this book... I thought they were STRONGER than the aliens! gez this book sucked! We want Perry back!

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Summary: A great sequel to Predator V.S. Aliens: Prey!
Review: I enjoyed this jaw breaking, bone crushing, bloody sequel! Bischoff was not that bad. But it would have been better to have Perry write it.

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Summary: I Thought it was a very good sequel!This is a good Buy!
Review: The Plot was good and the storyline was excellent but they need another sequel to this action-packed sequel!This was a great book

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Summary: Just didn't do it for me...
Review: Aliens vs. Predator: Prey rocked, and though I understand it might be difficult to live up to Perry's example, I think it could have been sooo much better.

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Summary: A good sequel to a great story
Review: I think that David did an excellent job in this sequel and pretty much followed Steve Perry's line of thought. He cut back on the Predator's language, but if you found that a hard point to understand, than this book is just as good as the first. The story is not excellent, and unlike the first novel the action doesn't begin right away. I recommend it though. A must-read if you read Aliens vs. Predator: Prey.

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Summary: Why oh why?
Review: After an exciting trilogy of Alien novels and the first AVP novel, what the hell were the publishers thinking when the took Steve Perry off of the second Aliens Vs Predator novel?!? After bungling Aliens: Genocide, Bischoff seems like a bad choice, and is. His story is ultra slow, the characters dull and uninteresting, and their is next to no Alien action. Fifty Predheads against twenty cyberaliens, and just winning? Come on. Bring back Perry ... Please!!!!

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Summary: Your wrong it doesn't suck...........
Review: Bichoff illistrated what would happen once you were taken from something then pushed unwillingly straight back into it, I have read all of the aliens, aliens v.s. preditor, and the preaditor books. Maybe you just didn't understand, most simple minds can't, the book was fast paced and got straight to the point....... I admit in the bigging it doesnot grab your attention, but as soon as you enter the sort it is entertaining...... as all the books do it makes you lean one way then pulls you another. and as for the book genocide. I loved it...... in view point of a minor they are all cool. And that is who the books are targeted at. Young adults. Just because you didn't like it does not mean others wont.

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Summary: If you like ALIEN RESURRECTION, you'll love HUNTERS WORLD
Review: One chapter of this is based on a Dark Horse comic. The rest is my own creation, using an interpretation of the excellent and strong character created in the original comic ALIENS VS. PREDATOR as well as my other ALIENS book GENOCIDE. Mostly, I used my love for good solid and fun SF adventure from a time before STAR WARS and ALIENS were around. I've gotten more mail from readers about this book than any other. All positive.

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Summary: Doesn't live up to Prey
Review: I think this is the first book by David Bischoff I've read, and so I don't know how it matches the quality of his other work, but this overall was passable but not up to my expectations after having read Prey. The only really good scenes are involving the Yautja, such as the opening scene, the Pack flashbacks, and the final fifty or so pages of climax. In between it does get rather boring.

I enjoyed the character of Atilla, I rather like the human characters, though they're written a bit broad (Dick Daniels, especially), Machiko is well-characterized, and the Yautja characters are well written as well, although they do tend to blend together and Bischoff actually calls them by the wrong names a few times.

Bischoff's style can get old fast. He's fond of cliched expressions and repeats himself, a lot. His dialogue isn't the most realistic I've read, either.

I also didn't like the inclusion of a love interest for Machiko. I wasn't interested in reading romance in a Predator novel, but if it must be done, I would prefer that it wasn't so thrown together and contrived. Fortunately it only takes up a few pages and is easily skipped if you don't like it.

I have to wonder why this is the second book in the trilogy, instead of the third, since I understand that the story that was glossed over in this novel will be described in detail in "War". The whole novel made me a little frustrated with the way Bischoff kept referring to the events at the mining colony but never elaborating on them. I'm off to read War and I really hope for a return to Prey-like greatness.

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Summary: The Hunter's Paradise...
Review: Machiko Naguchi, once again working for the Company, has been asked to help with a little problem. It seems a planet, one used for big game hunting, has developed a tiny problem. The hunters are being killed by Aliens, the bug kind. Now Livermore Evanston, the owner of the world, wants Machiko, the one woman who knows how to handle them, to handle them.
But things are never as simple as they seem. For one thing, the human hunters are not the ONLY hunters who enjoy the big game on the planet.
And other problem seems to be the alien drones have been upgraded. As in thumbs, eyes and brains.
What's going on?
A great book, but for the fact that the Predators think of themselves as PREDATORS, instead of warriors, hunters or yautja. The terms, in other words, don't fit those used in the first book and force the reader to remember that he is reading a book and not listening in on the thoughts of the alien hunters.