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Starwolves #2
Starwolves: Battle of the Ring
The Starwolves are back in another action-packed adventure. The superbeings confront a Company death machine of vast lethal scale, designed solely to destroy them. Now they must fight a living engine of hate. Original.
- GenresScience FictionFiction
240 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1989
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Thorarinn Gunnarsson
20 books17 followersFrom Wikipedia: Thorarinn Gunnarsson is the pseudonym of an American author of science fiction and fantasy.
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December 3, 2013
Short review: Even more interesting worldbuilding, neat ideas and characterizations. Continued awesome female side characters and lots of them. Fun dialogue, more varied settings. Main character likable but becoming even more of a special snowflake with awesome powers who can do no wrong as the series progresses.
More thoughts:
I read this book first out of this series, when I was young, and it really stuck with me. Enough that I hunted the entire series down as an adult. The worldbuilding in this book is really great. An engineered race fighting against a tyrranical human mega-government, pretty good science background for the hard scifi bits, a varied plotline, and space battles that didn't bore me to tears. In general, I got the feeling that the author was having more fun with this book than the previous one in this series.
However.... However. After reading the first two books in the series again as an adult, I do have to roll my eyes at some of the tropes that are not just sprinkled but LATHERED on in this book. The main character, Velmeran, continues to be almost Gary Stu levels of sparkly wonderful. Though he is quite likable and practical, everyone's reaction to him continues to be just a tad too contrived for me. He also continues to develop more inherent capabilities and to apparently intuitively know how to use them. Also, though I do like the number of women in this book (from the sentient worldship down to the human who stows away on the ship), they are also caught in the Velmeran Is Wonderful field and the combination almost reads like a harem show, where one guy is surrounded by women who all like/love him. Also, the author continues to make Velmeran easily overcome every challenge thrown at him with minimal losses, which reeks of the author liking the character a bit too much.
All of this is not enough to make me dislike this book. Call it a guilty pleasure, but I can overlook the flaws for the genuine fun embedded in the story.
More thoughts:
I read this book first out of this series, when I was young, and it really stuck with me. Enough that I hunted the entire series down as an adult. The worldbuilding in this book is really great. An engineered race fighting against a tyrranical human mega-government, pretty good science background for the hard scifi bits, a varied plotline, and space battles that didn't bore me to tears. In general, I got the feeling that the author was having more fun with this book than the previous one in this series.
However.... However. After reading the first two books in the series again as an adult, I do have to roll my eyes at some of the tropes that are not just sprinkled but LATHERED on in this book. The main character, Velmeran, continues to be almost Gary Stu levels of sparkly wonderful. Though he is quite likable and practical, everyone's reaction to him continues to be just a tad too contrived for me. He also continues to develop more inherent capabilities and to apparently intuitively know how to use them. Also, though I do like the number of women in this book (from the sentient worldship down to the human who stows away on the ship), they are also caught in the Velmeran Is Wonderful field and the combination almost reads like a harem show, where one guy is surrounded by women who all like/love him. Also, the author continues to make Velmeran easily overcome every challenge thrown at him with minimal losses, which reeks of the author liking the character a bit too much.
All of this is not enough to make me dislike this book. Call it a guilty pleasure, but I can overlook the flaws for the genuine fun embedded in the story.
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