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The Guardians #5
Armageddon Run
In the chaos following America's nuclear devastation, the Guardians, a high-tech four-man team, accept the challenge of finding a safe haven for the President and building a central control base for the nation's reconstruction
- GenresPost ApocalypticAction
186 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published August 15, 1986
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December 13, 2022
Well my theory on the Guardians books did not come true. I have been saying since book one, that by book 5, the series would take a turn into the high octane, over the top action novels of the 80s. I made this prediction solely based off of the covers.
The covers of the first four books, were the guardians on a plain white cover. Book five, it’s action packed, 80s galore. My guess was, this was when the series bailed on trying to be a Tom Clancy style book, and dove into that true action over the top style.
However; and unfortunately that wasn’t the case. This book took me a while to finish. I just was not motivated to finish this one. Right off the bat, we get a heavy action sequence that should put us in the mood for a great book, but once again, the author over complicates things, and gives way too many details, causing you to get lost and try and figure out just what is happening.
Returning is McKays weird love interest, which takes up A LOT of this book. I think this is where the book just became a chore. Right in the middle of the book, the action just stops, and we are greeted to a lot of just conversations and lovers spats. By this point, the book has us believing McKay is this hard ass, combat killing machine, leading a group of super soldiers to save the day. Problem is; these super soldiers, rely WAY too much on these rag tag teams of renegades, one of them, a female soldier, who leads them, also love McKay, and Vice versa.
So you get this awkward love story, that goes no where. It literally just ends halfway through the book, and good riddance, because once that ends, the book starts to FINALLY pick up again. I was fully ready to give this book a 2 or 3 star review, but the ending saved it.
The ending was phenomenal and made trudging through this one worth it in the end. Like most Guardians books, the author spends WAY too much time retelling the events from the pervious books, over detailing everything, and making our hero’s look weak.
I’m hoping book 6 picks up, but I will be giving the guardians a rest for a while. If you’ve read 1-4, you may as well keep going! The ending saves this one, 4 out of 5 stars.
The covers of the first four books, were the guardians on a plain white cover. Book five, it’s action packed, 80s galore. My guess was, this was when the series bailed on trying to be a Tom Clancy style book, and dove into that true action over the top style.
However; and unfortunately that wasn’t the case. This book took me a while to finish. I just was not motivated to finish this one. Right off the bat, we get a heavy action sequence that should put us in the mood for a great book, but once again, the author over complicates things, and gives way too many details, causing you to get lost and try and figure out just what is happening.
Returning is McKays weird love interest, which takes up A LOT of this book. I think this is where the book just became a chore. Right in the middle of the book, the action just stops, and we are greeted to a lot of just conversations and lovers spats. By this point, the book has us believing McKay is this hard ass, combat killing machine, leading a group of super soldiers to save the day. Problem is; these super soldiers, rely WAY too much on these rag tag teams of renegades, one of them, a female soldier, who leads them, also love McKay, and Vice versa.
So you get this awkward love story, that goes no where. It literally just ends halfway through the book, and good riddance, because once that ends, the book starts to FINALLY pick up again. I was fully ready to give this book a 2 or 3 star review, but the ending saved it.
The ending was phenomenal and made trudging through this one worth it in the end. Like most Guardians books, the author spends WAY too much time retelling the events from the pervious books, over detailing everything, and making our hero’s look weak.
I’m hoping book 6 picks up, but I will be giving the guardians a rest for a while. If you’ve read 1-4, you may as well keep going! The ending saves this one, 4 out of 5 stars.
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