deanie's review against another edition
5.0
Marine Karen Tucker and her all-female special forces team, the Medusas, are supposed to be doing survival training with their Norwegian counterparts, until they find a heavily guarded cabin being used as a drug lab, putting them (and their Norwegian liaison, Anders Larsen) in the middle of an extremely dangerous situation.
I really love this book. The Medusas are in top form, and Karen is one of my favorite characters. She's always been physically strong, but as she learns to trust her mental strength and strength of will, she's extraordinary. Anders is the perfect foil for her, and the drug lab mystery is one of the most compelling of the series. This is a book that I've read and re-read because it's just that good.
I really love this book. The Medusas are in top form, and Karen is one of my favorite characters. She's always been physically strong, but as she learns to trust her mental strength and strength of will, she's extraordinary. Anders is the perfect foil for her, and the drug lab mystery is one of the most compelling of the series. This is a book that I've read and re-read because it's just that good.
nicolet2018's review against another edition
4.0
The first book in the Medusa Project proves to be a great start for the series. I think that the plot of the novel was extremely well thought out and all the characters had time to develop and to come in in scenes as the novel progresses.
Our main character here is Karen Turner and she is part of an elite group of special forces soldiers who are women, wow! They have come to the Artic Circle to take part in survival training and to prove to the Norwegians that they are on the same par as these men and should be taken just as seriously. The camaraderie between the women is obvious and none of the team is ever left out. I also loved that the author mixed culture like the Sami people with the plot. The chemistry between Larson and Karen is obvious form the start and I loved how it went form there.Solid plot about bad guys making a drug to endanger the world and the Medusas are caught in it!
Our main character here is Karen Turner and she is part of an elite group of special forces soldiers who are women, wow! They have come to the Artic Circle to take part in survival training and to prove to the Norwegians that they are on the same par as these men and should be taken just as seriously. The camaraderie between the women is obvious and none of the team is ever left out. I also loved that the author mixed culture like the Sami people with the plot. The chemistry between Larson and Karen is obvious form the start and I loved how it went form there.Solid plot about bad guys making a drug to endanger the world and the Medusas are caught in it!
torts's review against another edition
2.0
SO BAD (still better than Dan Brown).
I know I shouldn't have expected anything else from this genre, and I have only myself to blame for actually reading it. But still. Here is a list of what irked me about the book:
1. It pretends that it's trying to counteract stereotypes about femininity. It does not. Okay, maybe it doesn't pretend too hard, and I can kind of respect it for the sake that it's an unabashed Romance Novel written by a woman who was actually in a similar scenario (involved in the Air Force or something...) so she knows what kind of stereotypes she's actually working against. That being said, she's promoting what's wrong with the perception of women. Mary Wollstonecraft should come back as a brain-eating zombie and eat this woman's brain, because she's probably not using it too much anyway.
2. The writing is...Dan Brown-esque. (But at least it doesn't pretend to be amazing literature.)
3. The native people are portrayed in a very offensive manner. Ethnocentrism much? (Seriously, do people still believe in social darwinism or something? Why is it okay to treat whole groups of people like "savages"?)
4. The bad guys are generic Middle Easterners. For no apparent reason. They don't even get to belong to specific countries. They're just dark and hairy terrorists who speak Arabic and are inexplicably nefarious.
5. I read this. All of it. And I can never get back the time that I wasted being annoyed (and enthralled by the sheer depths of wrong-ness in this type of "literature").
All that being said, it was kind of hilarious.
I know I shouldn't have expected anything else from this genre, and I have only myself to blame for actually reading it. But still. Here is a list of what irked me about the book:
1. It pretends that it's trying to counteract stereotypes about femininity. It does not. Okay, maybe it doesn't pretend too hard, and I can kind of respect it for the sake that it's an unabashed Romance Novel written by a woman who was actually in a similar scenario (involved in the Air Force or something...) so she knows what kind of stereotypes she's actually working against. That being said, she's promoting what's wrong with the perception of women. Mary Wollstonecraft should come back as a brain-eating zombie and eat this woman's brain, because she's probably not using it too much anyway.
2. The writing is...Dan Brown-esque. (But at least it doesn't pretend to be amazing literature.)
3. The native people are portrayed in a very offensive manner. Ethnocentrism much? (Seriously, do people still believe in social darwinism or something? Why is it okay to treat whole groups of people like "savages"?)
4. The bad guys are generic Middle Easterners. For no apparent reason. They don't even get to belong to specific countries. They're just dark and hairy terrorists who speak Arabic and are inexplicably nefarious.
5. I read this. All of it. And I can never get back the time that I wasted being annoyed (and enthralled by the sheer depths of wrong-ness in this type of "literature").
All that being said, it was kind of hilarious.
animation's review against another edition
5.0
I've read the later books, finally getting to see it it all started. Loving this series
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