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Horizon Storms by Kevin J. Anderson

galax003's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0


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waden34's review against another edition

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4.0

Finally the series takes off. There is palpable tension in this book. There are now people to loathe instead of just amorphous blobs. The only thing I didn't like was that there are people that were presumed dead that are brought back to life. This ruins the emotional value that their deaths originally had on me.

slapshottechnology's review against another edition

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4.0

Another good, quick read. Enjoyable plot twists, although more of them, like J'orah's brother going rogue was kind of predictable. Excited to see if the humans can replicate the Hydrogue ships, see the connection between the Klikiss and Hyrdogue trapezoid transport systems, and the new wooden people.

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3.0

Maybe just the times, but this depressed me more than the first time I read it. I knew what was coming (Hyrillka's treachery, the Klikiss robots, etc.) and it just bummed me out. I am hoping to get to some positives quickly as we move to the next book.

talamak's review against another edition

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3.0

The story kept me hooked but by the end of it I felt like not a whole lot had happened. There are so many plotlines and point of view characters that although some significant events occurred, overall it feels like this book was just moving the plot along and setting up for bigger things later on.

The plot itself is amazing as always. The characters are good, though with some of the minor characters we get information unnecessary to the plot and unnecessary to the character's development. For one character in particular, Anderson regularly revisits his past despite it having little to no relevance to how he behaves and reacts to things - this character is introduced and killed off in this book, making me think the author only included the past and referenced it so often in order to flesh out the chapters (unnecessarily).

Even though this book was captivating enough for me to finish in a matter of days, I feel that my interest came from my desire to solve the mysteries of the first two books; on its own merits this book isn't great (not bad by any stretch though!).

ferretbreeder's review against another edition

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4.0

This story is really starting to pick up! I still have some issues with KJA's writing, but I think his ability to craft a story that I enjoy ranks up there pretty highly, despite what others may say about his books.

merlandre's review against another edition

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The saga continues and with each book I get more engrossed in it. A big story with interesting characters both human and alien and combinations thereof. Water, trees and fire are all alive. Good fun and well written.

mvuijlst's review against another edition

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Deel drie, en meeer van hetzelfde laken als deel twee. Leest als een TGV.

Nog altijd niets verrassends, of beter; écht verrassends, maar hey, dààr lezen we Kevin J. Anderson toch niet voor?

mvuijlst's review against another edition

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2.0

Waar een paar dagen vakantie allemaal goed voor zijn: het gaat vooruit, boeken lezen als er niets anders te doen is. Het helpt ook dat ik 's morgens niet moet wakker worden, en dat ik dus tot een stuk in de nacht kan lezen.

Dit is wat ik genoteerd had toen ik het de eerste keer las:
Deel drie, en meer van hetzelfde laken als deel twee. Leest als een TGV.

Nog altijd niets verrassends, of beter; écht verrassends, maar hey, dààr lezen we Kevin J. Anderson toch niet voor?

Yep inderdaad. Dit was zelfs niet meer uit op een avond en een nacht, maar gewoon op een nacht. Beginnen lezen als ik in bed gekropen ben, en doorgelezen, en toen was het uit.

Zeer vreemde ervaring wel: ik herinner met niets meer van de details van het verhaal, en ook niet echt meer iets van de grote lijnen. Wat is blijven hangen, zijn een aantal evoluties in een aantal personages.

Ik herinner me vaag dat een zekere arrogante aristocratische piloot tegen zijn eigen verwachtingen verliefd wordt op een mevrouw van bij de zigeuner-achtige Roamers, en dat het wederzijds is, maar hoe en wat juist: geen idee.

Ik herinner me zeer levendig dat ik enorm meeleefde met een ander personage, en ik dénk dat dat tegen mijn verwachtingen tragisch afliep -- maar of dat in boek vier of vijf of zes gebeurt, geen idee. Ik weet wel nog zeer duidelijk waar ik was toen ik dat voor het eerst las: op weg naar mijn ouders, en de dramatische gebeurtenis gebeurde net toen ik aan de voordeur kwam gewandeld, ergens in de winter jaren geleden.

Geheugen is iets raars.

Voor de rest: met het verstand op nul en de blik op oneindig is dit een zeer aan te raden reeks. Op een Star Trek meets Dune-voor-tieners soort manier.

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2.0

I read the first two in the series years ago and now I am reading the rest of the series now. I was not disappointed or anything but there are some characters or parts of the story that I just don't like. There are also some characters that I like to read about. The Hansa government seems more like the government of China at times. The Roamers I like though they are so tied up with their way of life that it gets a little annoying. The people of Theroc are a little to easy going. Why do some authors write future realities with kings in charge even if they are more like figureheads. The Hansa and the EDF are all to arrogant and make me cringe reading about them. Humans in general seem a little to simple. The Ildirans are rather stuck into their way of life as well which has caused them to stagnate in some ways I think. They have more reasons to be arrogant than the humans though. The reasons for what the other alien races are doing don't make much sense even though they are older and technologically advanced than any other race. Still I feel a need to see how this all ends.