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Summary: I enjoyed Anne McCaffreys, Freedom's Landing, it was very...
Review: Anne McCaffreys, Freedom's Landing was a very hard book to put down. I would recommend this novel to anyone who is interested in a thrilling, mind boggling, exciting, novel with a little spicy romance. Kris Bjorsen was just a normal, average college girl in a normal average college. Or so thats what she thought. Up until the day that she and thousands of others were "abducted" by mysteriuos, smelly, Catteni spaceships. On the planet Barevi, they were basicly used as slaves. Then one day or shall I say night, Kris stole a Catteni spaceship and flew out into the jungle. She stayed out there for 5 weeks before encountering a Catteni that is wanted dead for killing another Catteni. She decides it's worth the risk of helping this Catteni. She does and then ends up clobbering him and nocking him unconsious. He wanted to repay her for saving his life, which he ends up doing later in the story. Well now shes got a body that she has to lug back to the city and drop. In the mist of doing so she gets caught and soon finds herself in a holding cell full of others. After she arouses she is given a shower, new clothes and drugged soup. She is then shoved onto a spaceship. What will happen next, I'm not going to tell, your just going to have to find out the rest for yourself.
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Summary: This is a wonderful book!
Review: This was also my first Anne McCaffrey book, and since then I've read many others. She is a great writer and has a wonderful imagination!
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Summary: Excellent book about the struggle to survive
Review: Freedom's Landing is a superb book by Anne McAffrey about the struggle of different species to survive together in an unfamiliar world. The Eosi are an alien species that invade weaker planets and use the people on them as slaves to either work for them or colonize new lands. Kris Bjorsen is a human who was taken when the Eosi attacked Earth. She escaped being a slave, only to be recaptured while trying to help a refugee Eosi. She is taken to a new planet along with about 800 others and forced to survive with limited food, tools and lots of unknown dangers. The colonists name "their" planet Botany after the English ship that helped colonize Australia with convicts, and together build a new society based on exploration, hope and freedom.
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Summary: Interesting intro into the World of Botany
Review: This was the first of Anne McCafferey that I've read, I found it to be fascinating and now I am reading all the McCafferey books I can get my hands on! Anne McCafferey's books are a must read for all the Science Fiction lovers and people who've ever wondered what life on other planets is like. Freedom's Landing shows many sides and characteristics of people and aliens alike.
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Summary: A fun read, but not outstanding
Review: Having read the short story upon which this novel was based, I found it highly amusing that Anne McCaffrey did not put too much effort into integrating the initial (Barevi) part into the rest of the novel. Still, when I read the story and that she was considering expanding it into a novel, I was happy when Freedom's Landing came out on the market, and I was not much disappointed by the book itself. I have also read Freedom's Choice, and although this series is not as promising as the Pern novels, it is still quite entertaining.
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Summary: A Great Novel!!
Review: Not really being prone to reading science fiction novels, when my teacher told us that we had to read one for our next project, I was NOT thrilled. Well, now my opinion has changed! (at least for this series) It does have all of the alien and paranormal concepts in it, but it's different from what I expected. Although it did take me a while to get into the book, when I finally did, I couldn't put it down. I still give it a five though, because it's the first science fiction novel that I actually picked out myself and really enjoyed. I'm going right now to check out the next book in the series!!
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Summary: A great book! Thoroughly enjoyable.
Review: This is the first Anne Mccafrey book I have read and I believe I picked a good one. I enjoyed the struggle of the characters to adapt to new surroundings and fight for survival. While the book did leave a very large opening, I am sure the sequels will fill in the holes left in the first book. Mccafrey paints a good picture of how society forms once organization and leadership take control. With Mitford as a militaristic leader, he was the perfect character to bring this sort of organization into being. This is the aspect of the book I enjoyed the most.
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Summary: Once it got me interested, it was a great read.
Review: Plots are interesting things. They can kill a good book or make a bad book ok (case in point, The Mandelorian Armor, good plot, bad writing), and this book's plot makes it unique. Said plot is about a woman who is abducted by aliens, and then deposited on a planet that the Cateni (abductors) want to have colonized. The aliens keep dropping more and more humans until they manage to get the planet under control, then they come back and take over again. The humans are given only short knives, ration bars, and some med kits to help them. About 1-2 hundred are dropped at one site, with many sites all over the planet.One of the guys dropped is an ex military fellow who organizes people, gets them to all do one thing instead of one person trying to get all of the knives, or food, or whatever. Once this is accomplished, and everybody who isn't dead is awake, they start out for some rocks, someplace that would be safer than where they are. After a whole day of marching they ! arive at their destination and find some caves that they use to set up a sort of apartment for everyone to be in. While all this is rather interesting, it gets a little slow when they are marching along, and I began to wonder when they will get to something that will be interesting. Some of the characters at this point are rather annoying, and I find it difficult to not just skim over that part. It does take them a while to actually start doing things that are interesting, like exploring, making their cave convenient, establishing who else is on the planet and things of that nature. While it does take close to half the book to really draw me in, I was pleasently suprised until the end, where it pretty much just cut off and ended. It was rather annoying. However, I can't wait to read the sequel. Maybe it wil get interesting earlier than the middle of the book.
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Summary: Read it, yes, but don't expect much...
Review: Doesn't it bother anyone that Anne McCaffrey cannot write a single book to save her life? I read FL when it first came out, and thought to myself, "This is a rather enjoyable diversion, thank goodness it's only a single book," and with one sentance, my illusions were shattered. I didn't find Kris very engaging, or Zainal; Mitford was my hands-down favourite. Plot had potential, if it could have been wrapped up in one book. As a writer myself, I know that sometimes you don't need to tell the reader everything. Did we really need to know who the Farmers were, or could we just be satisfied knowing that the colonists had shut down the machinery and were doing their own thing? McCaffrey needs to decide what her conflict is: we have man against man, man against woman, man against alien, man against machine, and man against nature. I found the last the most interesting, the rest filler. Also, if McCaffrey includes people from different countries in her storie! s, she should take the time to get to know them. Scandinavians on the whole do not need a lot of help with English, thank you very much, are you just trying to annoy me? Read this book if you're a fan, but don't expect much from it. Sorry, Mrs. McC., but this one just doesn't cut it.
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Summary: I just want more!
Review: I am a blind reader and, therefore, hear my books read to me on tape. I just couldn't believe when this book ended! The characters had me so wrapped up in their lives that I was despratly waiting for the outcome. When it never came and the book ended, I felt like the world had been left behind. There must be a sequel to this book!
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