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Summary: Very Interesting
Review: Most interesting book. The Heroine is a strong person, and the plot is very interesting.
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Summary: Conquering a new frontier.
Review: McCaffrey's tale of humanity struggling to survive on a harsh new world appeals to the same frontier spirit that makes people enjoy stories of the Wild West. Her tough yet sensitive characters grab your heart - you really care about what happens to them. This trilogy is a fairly fast and enjoyable read and is highly recommended to McCaffrey and fantasy/sci-fi fans.
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Summary: Don't read!
Review: I was a real McCaffrey fan - until I read this book. It is a very sexistic plot about the love between a 'college girl' and a very noble "overmale" alien. Alien slavers have raid Earth. They expose some of their slaves, including the "heroine" and the later "hero" (one of their own "overlords", now victim of an intrigue), on a new discovered planet. They find out that the planet is used by an unknown alien race as an automated farm planet, and going through some boring adventures the "college girl" and the "overmale" fall in love with each other. Could it be that McCaffrey worked up her own "wet dreams" from her high school days within this book?
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Summary: Light Weight Anne McCaffrey
Review: Freedom's Landing is light weight Anne McCaffrey and there's nothing wrong with that. The situation is interesting. First you meet the heroine surviving alone having escaped slavery by fleeing into the wilderness. Then she rescues someone from certain death who turns out to be ahigh ranking officer of the enemy. This has been done before but it's always an interesting situation. I wish the novel had stayed with this plot and really focused on the two of them struggling to survive together. Instead, they both are shoved with a group of slaves onto an alien planet. Provided a minimum of supplies they are left to try to settle the planet. If they fail, they die. If they succeed, the planet will then be conquered by the enemy. So they have to organize themselves, survive some major monsters and prepare to defeat the enemy. It's a good story but it's carried out "by the numbers". That is, there's nothing wrong with the book but it's definitely a hastily written lightweight read. Which is not to say I didn't thoroughly enjoy it. I just wish there'd been more to it. It also is a definite set up for a sequel.
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Summary: Good idea but bad story
Review: This story is just like many other books McCaffrey has written. She has a good imagination and interesting ideas, plus some skill in giving detail and imagery. However, her characterization absolutely stinks. Zainal has no real personality, and never once acts like a real person. Kris is supposed to be passed off as a normal college girl, but it's obvious she's not. The storyline is too easy. There is no way you can realistically let loose a bunch of people and get them to be in an orderly society within two weeks. Human nature just isn't that way. They never lose anybody on their trips, and nothing really bad happens that can't be fixed later. Overall, badly written. Could be a good story with serious revision.
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Summary: A really enjoyable book
Review: I disagree with the previous reviewer who called this a book for 12 year olds. It is well written and enjoyable. McCaffrey has an immense talent for writing books for both ages, children and adults. This is definately for adults. My only fault with the book, and to be honest, I'm not sure it is a fault, is that McCaffrey's plots usually consist of someone being put in a bad situation, and their ability to cope. There is not usually a major obstacle to overcome or a quest to achieve. More often, her stories tend to focus on minor obstacles the characters face in a setting strange to them. Enjoyable, but it makes for rather anti-climatic endings.
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Summary: Fiction for dummies
Review: McCaffrey has good ideas but it almost seems as if she is churning these books out in order to make a quick buck and to meet deadlines. This book is so BASIC it's like reading fiction for twelve-year-olds. How long did it take to write? A week?
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Summary: An exciting new series by McCaffrey
Review: I can hardly imagine being in the same situation as the characters in this book. Being abducted from my home planet and eventually being dropped on a seemingly harmless planet as part of some experiment doesn't seem like my idea of a good time. Luckily the dropees have people like Chuck, Kris, and Zainal on their side. A very interesting new plot and cast of characters. One of my favorites by McCaffrey.
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Summary: The author has moved to a new planet
Review: Anne McCaffrey has moved on from Pern and now has a group dropped down (unwilling) on a new planet, Botany. Unfortunately, the book has the characteristics of a book rushed into print by an established author for her publisher. The story starts out well but then goes downhill. The involuntary colonists, dropped down into a hostile environment, magically accomplish things in weeks that would take normal people years. This seems to be another case of an author that has lost all sense of time (perhaps bored with a slow pace and rushing to move on). The story is left unfinished, leading into another book to be written. I read what must have been the first printing of the hard cover edition and the editing, in places, was atrocious. Don't publishers edit for basic grammar anymore?
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Summary: This book is a MUST read! It was absolutely WONDERFUL!
Review: This book is one of the best books I've read. My first Anne McCaffrey, but I will try and read some others of hers. I really liked the way that these people are trying to survive each other and the original romance of Kris and Zainal. It really entertained me. I just wish the book was longer!!!
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