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Cargando... Anthem's Fall (edición 2014)por S.L. Dunn
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. This was a DNF. ( )Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. Between life and work, the wording in places and the setup of this book it took me longer to finish than it should have. Overall, a unique story with very detailed characters. There were some places in the story where I felt bored. The fight scenes were a little dragged out or the explanation of powers and abilities were repetitive. Some of the wording in places had me wondering, why? It felt like I was stopping to reread some of these phrases because they just made no sense where they were. It really threw me off and I had to put the book down a couple of times because of this. All that being said I was ANGRY when this book ended (minor spoiler). I waited all book for one thing to happen, then it hits and all of a sudden "till next time". I'm hooked for the next one that's for sure and the ending made that happen! I'm fond of the main characters and it seems like a good amount of detail, time and thought went in to each one. The only other thing to note would be that I did have to look up some of the words at the beginning of the book. They all pertained to the science that is referenced in the book. I honestly think that if you can be patient with this book and want a unique story, that you'll be happy with this. Stick it out and endure some of the rough spots and you'll be hooked for the next one! Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. Good book. I liked the complexity of the "villain". It was interesting to see his point of view on what he was doing was right in his mind. Eagerly awaiting the next book in the series.Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. Vengelis did not hesitate. The moment Gravitas's body slipped unintentionally forward, Vengelis raised a left fist, sending it barrelling into Gravitas's chin. Gravitas's head rocked back from the blow, and as it came forward again, stunned and discombolulated, Vengelis's right fist came up and caught Gravitas on the cheek. He could feel the bone break against his knuckles.To start with I was enjoying the scenes set on the planet of Anthem concerning the political infighting of human scientists as their behaviour seemed more realistic, but once the Primus Emperor and his two warriors arrived on Earth, it all got a bit silly. I like science fiction to be plausible enough to allow me to suspend my disbelief, but unfortunately this book kept dragging my disbelief down and stomping it into the ground so that I couldn't ignore the implausibilities in the plot. The plot consists of far-fetched coincidence after far-fetched coincidence, The Primus warriors just happen to arrive on earth as Other unlikely things: The US government ordering the evacuation of all major cities after Chicago is attacked. Knowing how much chaos there was when New Orleans was evacuated after Hurricane Katrina, I do not think this would happen. Also, the planet of Anthem being populated by powerful warriors who are impervious to all weapons, crashing through from one side of a skyscraper to another, and falling thousands of feet to the ground, but who can kill each other in fist fights. How could this possibly be due to genetic traits as Vengelis claims? Superheroes are one thing, but this is science fiction and the Primus species seems to have started off very similar to homo sapiens, before the Sejero genetic traits changed them into superhuman wariors. Towards the end of the book, I found myself skim-reading the fight scenes between the Primus warriors as I have never been a huge fan of fight scenes and these were boringly repetitive. Primus are able to take so much physical punishment that I couldn't believe Vengelis being surprised that his opponent was able to fight on after getting a broken cheekbone. The main characters were around 20 or 21 and both Vengelis Epsilon and Kirsten Jordan seemed staggeringly immature at times, so I checked to see if this is a YA book, but it doesn't seem to be. One of the better superhero novels I've read in a while, though it never explicitly comes outright and says it's a superhero novel. A big budget movie on paper, I liked it a lot. In particular I liked the interplay between Vengelis, Gravitas and Kristen. They were all characters unique enough to add to the genre. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Above a horrified New York City, genetics and ethics collide as the fallen emperor and a banished exile of the same herculean race ignite into battle over the city's rooftops. In the streets below, a brilliant young scientist has discovered a technology that can defeat them both, yet might be more terrible than either. The young emperor Vengelis Epsilon narrowly escapes the reckoning of his empire at the hands of strange machines known as Felixes. The Felixes are identical in every respect to the godlike men of Vengelis's world save for their mechanical blue eyes. Feared to be indestructible, the wanton holocaust of the Felix appears inescapable. His family murdered and his empire maimed under a shadow of destruction, Vengelis pursues the pained final words of his dying mentor, and sets course for a remote and unchartered world-our world. The son of the man who created the Felixes, Gravitas Nerol has spent four years in lonely exile. His crime? When the Lord General of the Epsilon Army ordered the genocide of a vastly inferior race, Gravitas refused him. A warrior to his marrow, Gravitas has cast aside his former life and committed himself to the pursuit of knowledge. Kristen Jordan is a young and talented graduate student working on a cutting edge research team. Their wildly inventive new biotechnology, the Vatruvian Cell, is the celebrated milestone of modern science. Yet Kristen remains uneasy about the capabilities of the inexplicable Vatruvian Cell, and as their project develops, it begins to ring oddly familiar to the perilous technology of Vengelis's home. Set both in modern New York City and in the technologically sophisticated yet politically savage world of Anthem, Anthem's Fall unfurls into a plot where larger than life characters born with the prowess of gods are pitted against the shrewd brilliance of a familiar and unlikely heroine. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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