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Edge Of War (2010)

by Larry Bond(Favorite Author)

3.52 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0765321386 (ISBN13: 9780765321381)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Forge Books

series

Red Dragon Rising

review 1: Okay enough. I'm not going to finish this. For the benefit of those who hate it when I rate books I didn't finish I won't even rate it. I was really ready to just remove it from my books altogether but for you who read my review of the first and saw this on my "currently reading shelf" I will note why I'm putting it aside.This one was written well after the first...recently enough so that the phrase "Global Warming" has been shown to be incorrect (or to use the word in the books stretched and strained intro, "inaccurate"). So they open admitting this...they don't go into how this sort of undoes the premise of the book, but no big deal that part is just "alternate history" now.But we do get an ongoing diatribe in the introduction switching to the phrase "climate change" wit... moreh an explanation that it's still bad and we'll all starve.No sooner do we get through the intro than the same subject/argument is brought into the body of the book.Look, if that's why you want to read the books more power to you. I was looking for a "technothriller", not political propaganda. So...end of my interest. I have too many other books waiting to be read.
review 2: Ugh. Basically take the run 'n gun of the first novel in the series and put it in an urban environment instead of a jungle one. Dr. McArthur just can't seem to get the U.S. government proof of Chinese war crimes, despite the fact it's 2015 and he's in a major metropolitan city. Just upload the footage to YouTube, dude.Also, can I just say that McArthur falling in love with the standoffish CIA agent who is trying to save him is the worst sort of spy novel cliche?Doubly disappointed because Major Zeus, whose story I was most interested in, got very little play in this book.(Of course, I'm halfway through the series now, so I'm sure I'll finish it even though it's trashy. Darn my completionist tendencies.) less

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