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The author is able to show the underlying thoughts and logic of the characters while maintaining the conversation simultaneously. It sets up the back story incredibly well for the villain from the Mass Effect Game (Saren). This is a wonderful book. Another Bioware staple shown in this book is story. Also it really fills out the David Anderson character who we didn't get to find out much about in the game. Just as in every Bioware game, the dialogue is a strong point. Everything lines up perfectly in this book without any inexplicable or illogical coincidences. The book really goes to show that this is a great new IP with a lot of depth to it.
it is a great lead-in for the game. give you back round on saren and captain anderson
I was hoping to get a similar experience from this novel. I love "Mass Effect," the videogame. It's imaginative and beautiful. It comes close, but the mediums just aren't the same. Either way, the book is still enjoyable.
This is garbage, of course. But what the hell, it's a video game prequel. It's interesting to get the back story, I guess, but since half the book is introducing people to this hugely complex world - you know, like the hour or two you spend roaming the Citadel the first time through the game. - the majority of the actual background data would have been better communicated in a five minute cut scene.
Just from playing that game for a few hours I knew there was a great deal of potential in this universe.Mr. She added nothing to the story and her relationship with Anderson was dull and predictable.Saren was depicted as a thinly-veiled sociopath. I played Mass Effect on my friends PC and I really got into it. This fiction does an excellent job showing the inherent difference between the humans and the Council, however it does a poor job showing the differences between the humans and aliens in general.The Krogan assassin, Skarr, was a terrifyingly described vision but as his actions were written he failed to measure up. I look forward to stories about other aspects of the universe; perhaps one set in the Krogan war, the Quarian expulsion by the Geth and so on. Karpyshyn's contribution to the Mass Effect expanded universe is a good one. Sanders, was boring.
The depiction of Saren is an excellent introduction to the character for those who haven't played the game as well as an excellent expansion of the character for those who have. I loved the depth of the story, the variety of the alien races and the political intrigue. His actions on the surface looked like one who was simply a take-no-prisoners elite agent, but under close examination it became evident that Saren sought the most violent solution to any problem. It tells us Captain Anderson's origin story, it gives an insight into Saren's character and it lays the framework for the seemingly obsessive way humans in the Mass Effect game seek advancement and recognition. He was painted as a veteran of countless struggles and a professional killer but his ineptitude in action gave me the feeling that the author went too far to design him as a weapon of terror or perhaps the author didn't give his character the focus required to make him measure up to his description.The damsel of the story, Lt. Saren was shown to be an excellent soldier and an intelligent manipulator who made a career out of hiding his true ways and desires from authority.This book is given three stars by me despite its many flaws because as starting points for Mass Effect fiction go it is an acceptable one. A vast and untapped world of fiction waits to be discovered in the Mass Effect expanded universe.
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