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Summary: A super read - an excellent story
Review: There are large numbers of 'Invade the Earth' novels. This one has much, much more than most to offer. It gives you a new planet to conquer and the Earth to recover, as well as all kinds of aliens with different strengths and weaknesses. The possibilities for the next books in the series are almost endless.
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Summary: Terrific!
Review: Great book! After finishing this one, I just wanted to read more!
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Summary: Wonderfull!!
Review: This was the first Anne McCaffrey that I have read and I have to say that I really enjoyed it. Once I started I couldn't put it down. While it wasn't heavy going as some other SF books tend to be, it had some interesting concepts and I look forward to the rest of the series and exploring some of her other books.
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Summary: Destined to be a wonderful series if it goes further!
Review: One of Anne McCaffrey's best efforts, comparible to the Pern series, and the Planet Pirate series. I hope that she finishes out the adventure, as I really want to see how Kris fares, and who are the beings that farmed the planet before Kris and her people arrived? A must read for any reader, and especially a McCaffrey reader.
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Summary: Everything you'd expect from mass market sci-fi.
Review: This book is pure sleep-walk. I kept hoping, wanting to embark on a heroes journey, but never got there. Nothing can match the hollow feeling you get when you're finally done. To call it shamelessly open-ended is an understatement. If an unknown author put forth such a plot-less, pointless novel, it never would have been published.
Nothing binds this story together -- there is no premise, there is no fulfillment. Characters wander in and out for no reason. They possess melodramatic qualities (i.e. the sexual harrasser - how 90's). It's the worst bit of dramatic writing from someone who should know better that I can remember. And, it's the most shameless, cynical attempt to sell a sequel I've ever seen
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Summary: Interesting concept done better elsewhere: ghastly book
Review: (for an infinitely better read on a similar theme, try "The Earth Abides")
Anne McCaffrey can write(see her Dragon series), but she doesn't demonstrate her talents here. Most of this poorly thought out and illogical book is written in an embarrassingly inept attempt at a smartassed American dialect. Her grasp of American idiom is poor at best and is so gratingly "off" it spoils whatever moment McCaffrey is trying to construct. It's like listening to very loud, very acid rock played on a very bad transistor. Characters are shallow and badly constructed. Plot is random, heading apparently nowhere, and the book is a patent first installment in a series...perish the thought! Shame on McCaffrey and her editors for this pulpy piece of trash, particularly as her readership has every reason to expect a higher quality work. This book makes a case for book burning as a form of public service.
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Summary: Does this feel Familiar?
Review: This book feels like a padded up version of her earlier book RESTOREE - which was terrific. I enjoyed Freedom's Landing, but where is the next book in the series? For those complaining about the characterisation - go hunt up RESTOREE
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Summary: Can't wait to see the rest of the series!
Review: I thought McCaffrey wrote a very well-told story in this book. It was especially interesting to me because it was taken straight from her short story "The Thorns of Barevi." I had read that story in Get Off the Unicorn (which has several other wonderful short stories), and it was a joy to me to see a full novel (now 2 novels!) based on that story. The main character, Kristin, and her Catteni companion from the short story are also in the novel, although changed somewhat. The story becomes part of the first chapter of the novel. I thoroughly enjoyed Freedom's Landing, and am waiting impatiently for the next novels in the series
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Summary: Umm, Yeah. NEXT!
Review: Since a few people have already said what I think, I'm only here to add to their numbers.
This book should have been a passer for me: I'm into the kind of book that concludes itself, has great character development, and stretches your brain to figure out what will happen. This book seemed to be entirely different from McCaffrey's other writings: if you're going to read this book, you will want to make sure you know what you're reading.
This book may have gotten twice the ratings if McCaffrey had set it up as a diary written by Kris, the main character, for the plot seems to be distorted just as life would be through ONE person's eyes.
If you're looking for the action and character development of the DragonRider series in this book, I advise you to look elsewhere, else you will wonder what McCaffrey was thinking.
HOWEVER,
This series as a concept does have promise. If it had moved just a tad quicker and was a bit shorter, it would have been a marvelous book. I'm curious as to what the next book will bring, for (as I NOW realize) this is a series that is quite drawn out. I wouldn't be suprised it McCafrey's intent was to create a settlement series that had NO holes at all: Complete history from the bottom up!
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Summary: Fantastic Fictional Fight for Freedom
Review: Many of Anne Mc Caffrey's books involve fighting against things -The pern series with thread, the planet pirates series with inter galatic pirates - and last (but not least) -Freedoms landing with it's fight against- a strang planet, mysterious aliens and the other aliens, catteni, that took over the earth?
Despite what it sounds like, this book does capture you and I could hardly stop my self from jumping up and down and going "ra, ra, ra, go humans!". If you can survive this book without haunting bookstalls, bugging librarians and questioning suppliers I'm astonished. Email me, for a private consultation (and the nearest loonie bin)
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