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Summary: Borders on being the worst of the Dell series
Review: Quality control really fell down here. This is only superficially a part of the Babylon 5 universe. There is no concern for continuity with the series, there is no concern for preserving characterization, and the general quality of writing is poor at best. I can't decide if this book or "The Touch of Your Shadow, the Whisper of Your Name" is the worst supposed Babylon 5 book.
Rating:
Summary: What an embarrassment!
Review: The blurb on the back jacket said this author was nominated for several writing awards. My questions is "HOW?!?!?!" This book has nothing going for it, other than the cover art. The characterizations are horrible, the "plot" is worse. I'm sorry to say I wasted my time and money buying and reading this. It's an insult to the world of Babylon 5, and I wish there was a way JMS could remove his name from it.
Rating:
Summary: What an embarrassment!
Review: The blurb on the back jacket said this author was nominated for several writing awards. My questions is "HOW?!?!?!" This book has nothing going for it, other than the cover art. The characterizations are horrible, the "plot" is worse. I'm sorry to say I wasted my time and money buying and reading this. It's an insult to the world of Babylon 5, and I wish there was a way JMS could remove his name from it.
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Summary: There are no happy endings
Review: There are no happy endings. Things are the way they must be. In style this book is a lot like Clark's Law, you can almost see the chapters
as scenes already filmed and shown to you. I know that some may think that short chapters are distracting and hard to follow, but in my opinion
that isn't the case; it keeps the tempo up, and helps the reader to keep track of everything that's happening in multiple places at the same time.
The story has two or three separate plots. The main plot concentrates on events surrounding G'Kar's incarceration. One plot studies what
Lyndisty's plans for Vir really are and a separate plot allows John and Delenn get some time together, but not in the way they expected.
The events take place in 2261, before "Falling Toward Apotheosis".
Rating: 
Summary: Okay as a stand-alone.
Review: This is not a Babylon 5 book. Aside from the names, locations and background, this has nothing to do with my favourite TV series. The characters are total inventions - I didn't recognise any of them - and it has no regard for the continuity of the series. It'd be okay as a stand alone novel, totally unconnected with anything else, but as a Babylon 5 novel, it falls down badly. My suggestion: If you're a B5 fan, look somewhere else. If you're just looking for a bit of light entertainment that you can pick up and put down at a moments notice, give it a go.
Rating:
Summary: Okay as a stand-alone.
Review: This is not a Babylon 5 book. Aside from the names, locations and background, this has nothing to do with my favourite TV series. The characters are total inventions - I didn't recognise any of them - and it has no regard for the continuity of the series. It'd be okay as a stand alone novel, totally unconnected with anything else, but as a Babylon 5 novel, it falls down badly. My suggestion: If you're a B5 fan, look somewhere else. If you're just looking for a bit of light entertainment that you can pick up and put down at a moments notice, give it a go.
Rating:
Summary: Terrible.
Review: This isn't a book, it is merchandising, and merchandising of such poor quality that it is an insult to the consumer. I feel insulted that I am expected to buy this simply because it has the magic words "Babylon 5" on the cover, and I feel a complete fool because that is exactly what I did. The worst bit is that we are actually expected to regard this is being part of the B5 "canon" - as "really" having happened in the timeline of the show. Sorry, no way. Ivanova in a wig all through season 4? Don't be ridiculous. Quality-wise, this is on a par with really bad fan fiction - except that I can't imagine even the dimmest fan writer getting the characterisations so wrong. In fact, go look on the Web and you'll find stacks of amateur spin-off fiction which is light years better than this. Oh, and by the way, I only gave it one star because the software wouldn't let me give it none at all.
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Summary: A Waste of Time
Review: Why did I bother reading more than one or two chapers of this book? Same reason I used to sit through Gilligan's Island episodes years ago. But wait --- I'm being far too hard on Gilligan. "Personal Agendas" on the other hand has no redeeming value. Not only is it written in a style aimed at fourth-graders, its subplots are designed so that the status quo is preserved and nothing is changed. This is the exact opposite of what Bablyon 5 is about --- characters growing and developing like real people. Skip this one.
Rating:
Summary: A Waste of Time
Review: Why did I bother reading more than one or two chapers of this book? Same reason I used to sit through Gilligan's Island episodes years ago. But wait --- I'm being far too hard on Gilligan. "Personal Agendas" on the other hand has no redeeming value. Not only is it written in a style aimed at fourth-graders, its subplots are designed so that the status quo is preserved and nothing is changed. This is the exact opposite of what Bablyon 5 is about --- characters growing and developing like real people. Skip this one.
Rating:
Summary: A Waste of Time
Review: Why did I bother reading more than one or two chapers of this book? Same reason I used to sit through Gilligan's Island episodes years ago. But wait --- I'm being far too hard on Gilligan. "Personal Agendas" on the other hand has no redeeming value. Not only is it written in a style aimed at fourth-graders, its subplots are designed so that the status quo is preserved and nothing is changed. This is the exact opposite of what Bablyon 5 is about --- characters growing and developing like real people. Skip this one.
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