Zero Hour

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Summary: Is this really how it all began...?
Review: Because the story, such as it is, doesn't make a lick of sense. The timeline starts just as Raccoon City's S.T.A.R.S. Bravo Team (the one that Alpha Team was sent to rescue in the very first Resident Evil game story) flies into the forest to investigate the series of murders that have happened there. What they find, after some helicopter trouble, is an overturned MP jeep with two dead passengers and a missing convict, then rookie member Rebecca Chambers discovers a seemingly deserted train. But there is a sinister plan behind all the destruction, and Chambers, along with the escaped convict Billy Coen, get caught up in it. The Spencer Mansion makes a cameo, as does Albert Wesker, William Birkin and Alexander Ashford, but the attempted connections to the proceeding game stories these events supposedly set-up seem forced. It would have worked better as a simple sequel rather than a prequel. Another disappointment is how slim the writing is this time around. S.D. Perry has crafted some wonderfully entertaining Resident Evil novels, both adaptations and original stories, but she seems to add very little shading this time around. Then again, it appears that she was given very little material to work with from the start. Yes the book is an exciting read (I would rate it three and a half stars), but after the solid work she had done in novels past this, her seventh Resident Evil book, is a tad weak. I hope there can be more original novels from her in the future, and not just the to be expected novelization of Outbreak.

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Summary: A GREAT READ
Review: IF YOU HAVE READ ANY OF THE RESIDENT EVIL BOOKS,YOU KNOW THAT THIS ONE IS GOING TO BE GOOD.JUST GO AND BUY THE BOOK.

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Summary: Just to let you know
Review: Man I can't wait for this book to hit the shelves, I'd finished reading "Code:Veronica" about halfway through August and am despretly waiting to get my hands on this next one, I have to give it a 5 because I know it's gonna be great. Also just to let you know "Evil Goat "Connor"" you shouldn't be bashing the series after the third game because if you were as big a fan as you say you are then you would know that in the next RE game Resident Evil 4 they talk about how Umbrella was shutdown after the Raccon City Incident. It happens right a few days after Code:Veronica.

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Summary: S.D Perry there games O.K
Review: ok to start im giving it 5 stars so it dosent affect any other ratings it gets. And second of all im going to say that YES IM PROBABLY THE BIGGEST RESIDENT EVIL FAN THERE IS. but only when it was the 1st,2nd and 3rd games, I found that after these 3 the rest series stories just couldent match up to the raccon city outbreak. Not only for gameplay but for storie as well, I mean lets face it Umbrella would be destroyed after an incident like that happened there would be survivors to report the company. But what im tring to say is that the books suck horribly there is no chracter dvolpmnet not there is any in the games though. And of course what made RE so great was the fact that it isent some sort of dumb magical gateway or spell that creates the monsters its real things that can be created threw Bio-Technology which I know alot about and let me tell u it is possible to create the t-virus. Annother asset i dident like about the books is the charm of the evil Umbrella corperation is sucked out in the books. And if you S.D Perry is reading this or anyother person who may want to confront me on this my e-mail is [e-mail]. And my last thing to say is S.D Perry You can write don't get me wrong and yes still write about Resdent Evil but maybe change it like for example write about the Raccon City incident threw the eyes of another and create your own ideas but revolve them around RE like you did Columbian Cove or something like that soory man can't remember the name of the book.

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Summary: Not Bad at All
Review: Pretty good. I read it in three hours because I couldn't put it down.

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Summary: The Beginning
Review: This is possibly the best idea Capcom has ever come up with. Starting the story over after years of success and going back to tell how it all started. As usual, S.D. Perry does a brilliant job of telling the story portrayed in the games. Zero Hour will no doubt be the best of the series connecting bits of information that could not be completely understood before its production. How else could you explain finding the bodies of the fallen Bravo team in the games RE1 and RE2 without going back to the beginning? The pieces of information go together masterfully in the lastest edition to the RE book series.
(And a couple of side thoughts; no one who thinks the title of the 2nd book is "Columbian Cove" (which is really Caliban Cove) can truely believe they are the biggest RE fan. The books are made to go along with the games, so if you don't know the games and the guidebooks well then I'm sure that the books will not make sense or seem to match up. Also one more point, writers who write for large companies such as Capcom do not write truely original works, they work with and write with what they are given. If you will notice most, if not all, of Perry's work is related to a television show, video game, or movie.)

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Summary: Good, could of been better.
Review: This novelization of RE0 is, like its predecessors good at covering the story and doing what the Video game did, although this book had a few events way out of order. While it was only natural that we get a novelization of RE0, I (like others) wished the time spent writing it was used for original RE fiction. It seems only natural that we get a few originals in the future since RE4 is coming out and is set 6 years into Code Veronica's future and Umbrella doesent exist. We need some books on what happened between there and how Umbrella was taken down.

At any rate.... this book is well worth the read, it's quick (took me only a few hours over a couple of days), and in my opinion it's better than the Code Veronica novelization.