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Title: Ever seen The Fifth Element?
Review: I still have a hard time believing David Weber, who's been responsible for so many books I enjoyed, wrote this book. The plot is lifted directly from Luc Besson's The Fifth Element. The name of the main female character is even taken from the lead actress in the film.I generally don't mind finding a lifted plot or character. I've read excellent rewrites of the Odyssey, The Brother Karamazov, and Les Miserables over the years. For that matter, Weber borrowed liberally from Forrester's Hornblower and the history of Nelson to create his Honor Harrington series. Unfortunately, this was poorly done. If you catch the plot similarities in the first few chapters, you'll know everything else before it happens.
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