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Review title: Hack writing at its worst.
Product review: Characters were cliched, cardboard and lifeless. I couldn't have care less if they lived or died. Dialog was awkward and inane. There were holes in the plot you could drive a Mack truck through. A net hacker kid finds out about an attempt on the head of a Megacorporation, but the company with more money and resources then God walks blindly into it? Oh, Please!! And sentence structure was terrible: "They all switched on their helmet lamps, throwing angled beams jerkily in every direction at the stained, filthy of the walls of the tunnels by the motion of climbing down the ladder." - if I was the publisher, I'd be looking to fire the editor who allowed this sentence to go into print. Amazingly, scenes with the Dark Legion were smooth, almost as if they were written by someone else. Plus, Micheal Stackpole, one of my favorite authors, wrote the last book of this trilogy, so I trudged my way through this book just to get a feeling of completion.
