Mekt-Hakkikt
Mpanty's bane
Hi!
So, finally I got to read the last WC novel I was missing, Pilgrim Stars.
I liked it - it's one of the few (maybe even the only one) WC novels I found to be really suspenseful. Even more with the cliffhanger at the end.
I still dislike the Pilgrim stuff and thus was not thrilled to see their capabilities to be augmented: all those visions, telepathy, "tapping into the scripts", force choking, "make gravity to bow to your will" - no thanks. They're certainly far beyond doing maths very quickly.
I also found the Angel-Blair and Paladin-Aristee relationship stuff to be rather annoying, too cheesy. Luckily, there wasn't too much focus on it.
I liked the combat scenes and especially the scenes with the Kilrathi. It made them more wild and alien, yet not so one-dimensonal as in other novels. I felt almost sorry for Vukar and his crew, I think they "deserved" to get at least a small victory. Too bad they're going to kill each other...
And I have to say, Maniac was, even though being annoying, the only likeable character on the human side. Certainly not Blair or Paladin.
Two small questions though:
1. Did Mr. Telep know what will happen to Tolwyn in the later WC story? Because his plan to annihilate the Pilgrim enclaves certainly shows some of the later Tolwyn.
2. What about this reference how the new CF-117b Rapier replaced the old F-44a Rapier? Just a mistake? Because I thought the F-44a Rapier was the one from WC 1...
So, finally I got to read the last WC novel I was missing, Pilgrim Stars.
I liked it - it's one of the few (maybe even the only one) WC novels I found to be really suspenseful. Even more with the cliffhanger at the end.
I still dislike the Pilgrim stuff and thus was not thrilled to see their capabilities to be augmented: all those visions, telepathy, "tapping into the scripts", force choking, "make gravity to bow to your will" - no thanks. They're certainly far beyond doing maths very quickly.
I also found the Angel-Blair and Paladin-Aristee relationship stuff to be rather annoying, too cheesy. Luckily, there wasn't too much focus on it.
I liked the combat scenes and especially the scenes with the Kilrathi. It made them more wild and alien, yet not so one-dimensonal as in other novels. I felt almost sorry for Vukar and his crew, I think they "deserved" to get at least a small victory. Too bad they're going to kill each other...
And I have to say, Maniac was, even though being annoying, the only likeable character on the human side. Certainly not Blair or Paladin.
Two small questions though:
1. Did Mr. Telep know what will happen to Tolwyn in the later WC story? Because his plan to annihilate the Pilgrim enclaves certainly shows some of the later Tolwyn.
2. What about this reference how the new CF-117b Rapier replaced the old F-44a Rapier? Just a mistake? Because I thought the F-44a Rapier was the one from WC 1...