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Title: Disappointing, but to be expected considering previous installments
Review: Having gone through 5 prequel books I wanted to read this volume. Unfortunately, it is exceedingly difficult to get through.Plot and characterization are extremely shallow. Many things are repetitious. Not only the story and explanations, but even choice of words. For instance, if you see the word javelin, you just now that it's going to be paired with balista.As it is, apart from subject-matter, to me it has very little to do with the original series. And although it was never to be expected that it would, considering the sheer genius of the original series, it could have had such better treatment than it has got here.Viewed for and by itself as a book of science ficton, it just does not come up to par.
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