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Summary: A great story line
Review: After several mediocre books in both the Mechwarrior line and the Battletech line, it is about time we got a goodie. After making the reader believe there were only 2 sides in the Victor/Katherine fight, we now know here is is a gray area in between. This book has a good flow, enough character development and rockin mech skirmishes. All of the intrigue and action made this book a pleasure to read!
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Summary: A great story line
Review: After several mediocre books in both the Mechwarrior line and the Battletech line, it is about time we got a goodie. After making the reader believe there were only 2 sides in the Victor/Katherine fight, we now know here is is a gray area in between. This book has a good flow, enough character development and rockin mech skirmishes. All of the intrigue and action made this book a pleasure to read!
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Summary: Great book!
Review: Finally a good story about the Fedcom civil war after a long series of unreleated events in other mechwarrior books. This book adopted the "news cast" from the Pardo's battletech books, and help the reader keep up with current events. It seems Prince Victor is finally winning the war, but with great cost to both the people and the military of FedCom, and the thing bother me the most about this book is the blindness of many of the Fedcom citizen and military units in supporting Kathrine Steiner.It seems the once mighty Fedcom will take many years to rebuild. in just reading the book i have counted more than 20 Regimental combat teams destroyed in the war. not counting the unit already destroyed and mercenary regiments employed by both sides. and the war is still not over...with New Avalon still in Kathrine's hand and 9 RCTs garrison it. I am saddend by the lost of so many famous units, and also angry at Victor for leaving his people to fight the clans when they need him the most otherwise none of the would have happend, but i guess this is the only way more books can be written about battletech. finally it seems the clans are on the moves again. one thing you will learn reading the "news cast".
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Summary: Jacob's Review
Review: First let me say, I thought this was a very good book. I think it would have been better placed under the Battletech line of novels, as it encompassed a long time frame and had many different characters. The Mechwarrior series previous to this, focused around one primary character in each book. The "primary" character, Grayson Addison, appears at the beginning and at the end. The rest of the book deals with Duke Hasek, his long time friend/sudden wife, Victor ally Ardan Sortek, Steiner marshalls, etc., etc. Still, good book, good read.
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Summary: Good book, wrong forum
Review: First let me say, I thought this was a very good book. I think it would have been better placed under the Battletech line of novels, as it encompassed a long time frame and had many different characters. The Mechwarrior series previous to this, focused around one primary character in each book. The "primary" character, Grayson Addison, appears at the beginning and at the end. The rest of the book deals with Duke Hasek, his long time friend/sudden wife, Victor ally Ardan Sortek, Steiner marshalls, etc., etc. Still, good book, good read.
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Summary: small hole
Review: i'll agree with most people who know anything about battletech that the turn to the fedcom civil war has been slightly disappointing. writing about the tactics and nit-picking in each battle was all well and good in the beginning of the series; but now that there is a decided end to the storyline with plans to jump ahead, i think a fallacy in the fedcom series is that they aren't spending enough time on ideas, concepts, and the ending of storylines. there are far too many unanswered questions, and with battletech books getting shorter and shorter, battle sequences (while well written) seem to be excess filler.
the small hole that i'd like to point in this book is that, while minor in the grand scheme it still annoyed the hell out of me and i think that anyone who read "grave covenant" will agree, is george hasek married w/children or single? cuz i seem to remember george hasek jr. having a snowball fight with david lear in "grave covenant". anyone else? and didn't the locket that andrew redburn recovered from morgan's daishi in "the hunters" have a picture of his grandson? just a little something.
the book is pretty good when seen in context with the last several books but is no "blood legacy" or "malicious intent"
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Summary: Could have been much better...
Review: The current series of Battletech novels centering on the Fedcom civil war has been uninspired at best. This book doesn't depart from that trend. The story is about a faction, the capellan march lead by Duke George Hasek, which has been for the most part neutral in the civil war. The story is fairly good, but many points, primarily the military sequences make no sense.
First, the planet in the story is garrisoned by four full regiments. The units assigned to assault the planet consist of three regiments, one of which has suffered severe attrition in another campaign. In contrast to this setup, the defending units are consistently outnumbered and destroyed in all phases of the campaign. The story seems to suggest the attempted assassination of their leader has thrown the defenders into confusion and demoralization. The problem with that theory is that the invasion was expected throughout the beginning of the book, appears to have been planned for, and nowhere does the author suggest his characters are military idiots.
Second, he has made his characters far too emotionally unstable. One of the leaders of the defending faction, a female general, bcomes emotionally disabled because of the assasination attempt on the Duke. How does an allegedly experienced military leader fall to pieces in the middle of an invasion, plus the author expects us to sympathize with the general while she loses a war. Another experienced military leader, a lieutenant colonel, becomes emotionally disabled to the point of blacking out in the middle of a battle, because of a battle that destroys a memorial to a beloved leader and, the fact, he is involved in fighting fellow countrymen. How does the author suppose such emotionally fragile people rise to lead military units in a war torn universe?
Well, I might have been a bit rough, but otherwise the book was pretty good.
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Summary: Could have been much better...
Review: The current series of Battletech novels centering on the Fedcom civil war has been uninspired at best. This book doesn't depart from that trend. The story is about a faction, the capellan march lead by Duke George Hasek, which has been for the most part neutral in the civil war. The story is fairly good, but many points, primarily the military sequences make no sense.
First, the planet in the story is garrisoned by four full regiments. The units assigned to assault the planet consist of three regiments, one of which has suffered severe attrition in another campaign. In contrast to this setup, the defending units are consistently outnumbered and destroyed in all phases of the campaign. The story seems to suggest the attempted assassination of their leader has thrown the defenders into confusion and demoralization. The problem with that theory is that the invasion was expected throughout the beginning of the book, appears to have been planned for, and nowhere does the author suggest his characters are military idiots.
Second, he has made his characters far too emotionally unstable. One of the leaders of the defending faction, a female general, bcomes emotionally disabled because of the assasination attempt on the Duke. How does an allegedly experienced military leader fall to pieces in the middle of an invasion, plus the author expects us to sympathize with the general while she loses a war. Another experienced military leader, a lieutenant colonel, becomes emotionally disabled to the point of blacking out in the middle of a battle, because of a battle that destroys a memorial to a beloved leader and, the fact, he is involved in fighting fellow countrymen. How does the author suppose such emotionally fragile people rise to lead military units in a war torn universe?
Well, I might have been a bit rough, but otherwise the book was pretty good.
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Summary: Peace doesnt come easy
Review: WHEN a leader of a large fraction of people in the Fed comm openly defies Katrina to keep peace Katrina sends troops to despose of him. Now he has to enter the war to keep peace in his relm. This is a very good book it kept me reading. I rely like the part when katrina tries to buy some mercs.But anyone whos anyone will like this book
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Summary: Jacob's Review
Review: When it comes to the issue of taking sides in a civil war that has engulfed the entire Federated Commonwealth, Grayson Addison is an undecided man. For a while he and his Eighth Syrtis Fusiliers remain neutral in the bloody conflict. All of this changes however, when troops under the command of Archon-Princess Katherine Steiner-Davion invade his home planet of New Syrtis. Grayson is forced to take action. He can no longer sit on the sidelines and watch the war unfold because now it has come to him. This book is fairly well written but the constant jumping from place to place and character to character sometimes confused me. However, the author provides good details and the plot was exciting making "Imminent Crisis" a worthwhile book to read. The news casts at the beginning of each chapter were also a nice touch. Those interested in the Mech Warrior series should definitely read this book.
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