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Summary: The Battle begins!!!
Review: After his Victory against the Clans, Victor returns. But now KATHERINE rules his Realm and he becomes Prezentor Martial of Comstar. But a "civil wars" starts in his old home and after the death of his brother, Arthur and a killer how trys to kill his great love Omi. He starts his war against his own sister, to get his brithright back. The Book war quit interesting: I read it as it was puplished a few month before in Europe. There are some very unusal parts, like the endscene and so on. But there are battlescenes as well as political stuff and all of them are very good. Coleman makes a good job and I am really interested in the last 2 Novel of our BT-Timeline, with ends 3067.
hope my my english is not so bad ;-)
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Summary: Not a bad book but on the short side
Review: Compared to the previous books that have made up the main story behind BattleTech this book is lightweight. For example, the Stackpole classic "Bred for War" it literally twice the size. This is mostly the fault of ROC in their stupid word count limitations that drove Stackpole away from writing BTech fiction in the first place. Suffice to say I finished this book in no more than two or three hours. That aside, Loren Coleman has done a good job picking up from where Stackpole left off. The characters pick up well from previous novels. The plot moves forward, albeit not with the same depth as might have been desired. Also the battle scenes are good, if somewhat brief. I just feel that I've been left hanging with the story only half done. I very much enjoy BTech fiction and this book was good, I would have just liked something deeper. I'm sure that Loren Coleman has the ability to do more, it's just that he's being artifically limited. So while not a bad read, there's just not enough depth to give it a better review.
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Summary: Not a bad book but on the short side
Review: Compared to the previous books that have made up the main story behind BattleTech this book is lightweight. For example, the Stackpole classic "Bred for War" it literally twice the size. This is mostly the fault of ROC in their stupid word count limitations that drove Stackpole away from writing BTech fiction in the first place. Suffice to say I finished this book in no more than two or three hours. That aside, Loren Coleman has done a good job picking up from where Stackpole left off. The characters pick up well from previous novels. The plot moves forward, albeit not with the same depth as might have been desired. Also the battle scenes are good, if somewhat brief. I just feel that I've been left hanging with the story only half done. I very much enjoy BTech fiction and this book was good, I would have just liked something deeper. I'm sure that Loren Coleman has the ability to do more, it's just that he's being artifically limited. So while not a bad read, there's just not enough depth to give it a better review.
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Summary: The begining of the end, and the beginning of the rest
Review: Great book. Coleman is on Par with Stackpole with this one. Keeps you rivited and anxious to read on. The little last bit of the epilogue is very intresting. I have an idea where it is leading to but I wont let it slip to you all yet :-) Your gonna have to read it a figure it out yourself.
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Summary: The begining of the end, and the beginning of the rest
Review: Great book. Coleman is on Par with Stackpole with this one. Keeps you rivited and anxious to read on. The little last bit of the epilogue is very intresting. I have an idea where it is leading to but I wont let it slip to you all yet :-) Your gonna have to read it a figure it out yourself.
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Summary: A good read but too short.
Review: I could hardly wait to read Patriots and Tyrants. As a continuation of the main BattleTech storyline, I was curious to see if Loren Coleman would prove to be a worthy successor to Michael Stackpole. While a good read, the book suffers from its shortness. Stackpole was able to write at length about not only the mech battles but the personal side of the BattleTech universe. Now the two are squeezed into less than 300 pages.
Still the book is very good. I especially enjoyed the conflicting scenes played out by Victor and Omi against Katherine at Christmas. Coleman did a fantastic job in portraying the siblings as polar opposites.
Although too short for my taste, Patriots and Tyrants is a very enjoyable read. I only hope the word limit placed on authors is seen for the folly it is and is removed soon.
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Summary: The Last of the Era
Review: I have to say that Coleman are just one of the remaining few good novelists after Stackpole in the old late-FASA team. (Stackpole left sometime earlier) Heard that Stackpole had been advising Coleman on this book so it is effectively 2 in 1. Anyway, FASA is no more and it's WizKids turn, so this is the last of the FASA's BattleTech era and enter WizKids' Battletech era. Wizkids is going in another direction with Battletech leaving the current era to Fantasy to complete. At least you know that Stackpole is on Wizkids team. I'm not so sure about Coleman. (I think so and sure hope so!) As I said, this is The Last of the Era so go get it!!!
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Summary: The Last of the Era
Review: I have to say that Coleman are just one of the remaining few good novelists after Stackpole in the old late-FASA team. (Stackpole left sometime earlier) Heard that Stackpole had been advising Coleman on this book so it is effectively 2 in 1. Anyway, FASA is no more and it's WizKids turn, so this is the last of the FASA's BattleTech era and enter WizKids' Battletech era. Wizkids is going in another direction with Battletech leaving the current era to Fantasy to complete. At least you know that Stackpole is on Wizkids team. I'm not so sure about Coleman. (I think so and sure hope so!) As I said, this is The Last of the Era so go get it!!!
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Summary: Death of a very good era
Review: I've been reading battletech for almost 6 years. I've read all of them but the weird ones that didn't pertain to anything. But there were the rest, the ones by Stackpole, Keith, and Pardoe.The adventures that got me through high school. That kept me up very late at night, madly flipping page after page. And those stackpole books, those were my favorites. The other writers were good, but none could ever grab my attention like his. It seemed as though the plot of the entire series moved with his books. The only relevent stories were told by him. Having him gone is a serious blow to the series. As I read Patriots and Tyrants, I found the characters that I had become so familiar with, Victor, Omi, Focht, and even the insidious Katherine Steiner to be shallow and without the usual depth. If Stackpole really was pushed out of the series because of word limitations, then ROC needs new management, becuase battletech is turning into the Mechwarrior series. Mike, if you're reading this, you will be missed. I'm thankful for all those hours of escape you gave me from geometry class, boring lunch hours, and countless times when I was babysitting my sister. You're the reason battletech got as far as it did, and it'll never be the same... As for the book itself. Patriots and Tyrants was ok. It had some action and plot development. If you're a long time fan of the series, then you should pick it up.
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Summary: stackpole was better
Review: It mad me cry! Coleman tries but he pretty much killed all stackpole's characters- they all [stink] now. Katherine and Victor both turned shallow, Tancred wasn't himself anymore, and they just had to try and kill one of my favorite characters- Arthur
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