Rating: 
Summary: Not Bad, but lacks a Stackpole feeling
Review: Once again, I am disappointed with the shallow depth of the "progression" of the battletech story line. Coleman is a very capable writer, but the complete lack of main characters is ridiculous. Kai, Phelan, the Clans. Look, I know the Clans were beat up, but there is no way that they would stand by while a civil war continues. A must read for battletech fans, however, big storyline developements. Good battles. *As a note to the guy from Ohio above, the Battletech license was sold to a company called WizKidz, and a new era of battletech has been created. Mike Stackpole has signed on to write a book in fall/winter of this year.
Rating:
Summary: Not Bad, but lacks a Stackpole feeling
Review: Once again, I am disappointed with the shallow depth of the "progression" of the battletech story line. Coleman is a very capable writer, but the complete lack of main characters is ridiculous. Kai, Phelan, the Clans. Look, I know the Clans were beat up, but there is no way that they would stand by while a civil war continues. A must read for battletech fans, however, big storyline developements. Good battles. *As a note to the guy from Ohio above, the Battletech license was sold to a company called WizKidz, and a new era of battletech has been created. Mike Stackpole has signed on to write a book in fall/winter of this year.
Rating:
Summary: Storms of Fate
Review: Overall a good book but I am becoming frustrated with the slow pace of the storyline and the lack of supporting characters. The Battletech universe had such a wide variety of interesting characters that are not being used at all in this civil war storyline. Kai Allard-Liao, Wolf's Dragoons, the Kell Hounds, Phelan Kell, all the clans and many others seem to have no role in this civil war. The Clans must have some interest in the war, Phalen Kell was such a large part of the Clan wars and now he is just sitting around and Kai is going to sit by and wait to see what happens??? My frustration is more with the story line and less with the writing, which is very good and has a nice mix of battle and politics. P.S. The foreword of the book made it seem like the Battletech line was being sold to a new company b/c FASA was closing. It also seem to say that novels were going to end b/c of this sale. I would certainly hope that the novels are not ending and that someone continues to write more in this series.
Rating: 
Summary: Its still battletech...
Review: The battletech series is one of the longer running and larger series out there. That alone should be enough to recommend this book. But New battletech and Old are now quite different. The stories are still great but some of the detail has been lost. Take Storm of Fate. It is a very good Battletech book with all the great battles and intrigue that you would expect. The story line is also very gripping. But it isn't the space oddessy's that Stackpole wrote back in the day. One may argue that this book is almost as good but one thing about Stackpole(an origional B-Tech writer who is now on Star Wars) was his amazing detail. And the other B-tech writers were not far behind him. Now, they all seem to be letting it off some.
Rating:
Summary: Its still battletech...
Review: The battletech series is one of the longer running and larger series out there. That alone should be enough to recommend this book. But New battletech and Old are now quite different. The stories are still great but some of the detail has been lost. Take Storm of Fate. It is a very good Battletech book with all the great battles and intrigue that you would expect. The story line is also very gripping. But it isn't the space oddessy's that Stackpole wrote back in the day. One may argue that this book is almost as good but one thing about Stackpole(an origional B-Tech writer who is now on Star Wars) was his amazing detail. And the other B-tech writers were not far behind him. Now, they all seem to be letting it off some.
Rating: 
Summary: Coleman is at his best
Review: Well, since I have been reading/playing battletech for years now, I imagine I have some seniority on the matter. This book, while still the same civil war does much to keep it from tiring. In this novel specifically, we loose a charecter, see a charecter at their worst, and see an old charecter come back from the grave, such as it were. If you are not already an avid fan/reader of the Battletech series, this may not be a spectacular place to start, but as long as you have read one or two books in the series and know the politics and such in general, this is a spectacular book. It brings the current story closer to a close (which any good reader knows won't stay closed), and opens up new possibilites with the election of a "fair" Star Leauge ruler and the addition of two new member states to the leauge. Nobody does them like Coleman.
Rating:
Summary: Great Battletech Book
Review: While not Stackpole, Mr. Coleman keeps the BattleTech series strong. It does tend to drag at points, and some of the characters seem to attack "weird" or at least not in the way Stackpole's earlier works had them. None of that is enough to hurt the book though. It will be sad to see the series end...
Rating:
Summary: Great Battletech Book
Review: While not Stackpole, Mr. Coleman keeps the BattleTech series strong. It does tend to drag at points, and some of the characters seem to attack "weird" or at least not in the way Stackpole's earlier works had them. None of that is enough to hurt the book though. It will be sad to see the series end...
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