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Summary: Uggh! What a Cliffhanger!
Review: This was another great book in the NF series. After the suprisingly so-so Quiet Place, Dark Allies gives us more of the Excalibur Crew and evolution of the multiple sub plots running. Be warned though that to read both #7 and #8, new readers should pick up Once Burned and Double or Nothing if they want to catch some of the inside jokes. UGGHHH! This was a great book, but i can't stand the cliffhanger!
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Summary: When is the next book coming out?
Review: This whole series has been great...this was no exception. The ending, wheww...definetly a must reda for that reason alone. Anyone with any information on when the next volume comes out...let me know!
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Summary: Minus 1 Star for the ending!
Review: When I picked up the first book in this series I didn't expect to like it - a new star trek, with a new captain... But once I started reading I couldn't put it down and quickly worked my way up to this book. I found the series just kept getting better and better. Interesting stories and fascinating characters - some new and some taken from the tv series "Next Generation." I loved the adventures, I loved the characters, I even loved the soap opera that seemed to be running in the background, but... THEN I got to the end of this book and almost threw it out a window! It's not the "to be continued" - that seems to be how all the books in the series end - by not ending. It wasn't the adventure (that's so great that I sat up late into the night reading it!). It's the soap opera! Towards the end of the book, Peter David had my favorite characters, Calhoun & Xyon, do things that were so incredibly stupid (tho' the son could probably be forgiven because of his youth) that all I could think as I read it was "it just goes to prove you don't have to be human to be a jerk, all you have to be is male!" (I'm not sure if I mean the characters or the writer!) The book, the story, they were SO great up 'til then... then SPLAT! it just fell flat with me! That said, surprisingly enough, I think most readers will enjoy not only this book but this series as a whole. Surprised you, didn't I? Chances are what bothered me won't bother you, the future reader, and it probably didn't bother most other readers. BUT it bothered me so much I felt like hitting both the imaginary characters and the writer up side the head! If I wanted men to be jerks, I wouldn't read fantasy! My hero has fallen from grace and I've been thoroughly disillusioned - Calhoun should have been swallowed by a black hole! I may read the next book, but I'm not rushing out to get it...
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Summary: New Frontier lives!
Review: When I saw the first novel of the "New Frontier" series, I didn't really know what it was all about. "What? No Picard or Kirk? Can't be!" I thought. Nevertheless I bought the book (it was, as far as I remember, "House of Cards") and found it much better than the usual Picard or Kirk stuff. After that I got all other NF-novels. Now I am so far to admit that Peter David is doing great work with the series. "Dark Allies" is no exception. It is Star Trek at its best, and it goes further than most normal Star Trek fiction. Star Wars and B5 fans who ignore Star Trek because of some stupid principles should really read this book. The only negative point about it(and other NF-books) is the cliffhanger at the end...
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Summary: New Frontier lives!
Review: When I saw the first novel of the "New Frontier" series, I didn't really know what it was all about. "What? No Picard or Kirk? Can't be!" I thought. Nevertheless I bought the book (it was, as far as I remember, "House of Cards") and found it much better than the usual Picard or Kirk stuff. After that I got all other NF-novels. Now I am so far to admit that Peter David is doing great work with the series. "Dark Allies" is no exception. It is Star Trek at its best, and it goes further than most normal Star Trek fiction. Star Wars and B5 fans who ignore Star Trek because of some stupid principles should really read this book. The only negative point about it(and other NF-books) is the cliffhanger at the end...
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