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Title: Mission to Moulokin
Series: Icerigger #2
Author: Alan Dean Foster
Rating: 4 of 5 Stars
Genre: SFF
Pages: 280
Format: Kindle digital edition
| Project Reread: |
I am attempting to reread 10+ books in 2016 that I have rated highly in the past. I am not attempting to second guess or denigrate my younger self in any way but am wanting to compare how my tastes have changed and possibly matured. I am certainly much more widely read now [both in the good and bad quality sadly] than then.
I will hopefully be going into the reasons for any differences of opinions between then and now. If there is no difference of opinion, then it was a hellfire'd fine book!
Links may link to either Wordpress, Booklikes or Blogspot, depending on when the original review was.
| Synopsis: Spoilers |
Having survived Tran-ky-ky for a year, Ethan Fortune isn't that keen on going right back to his planet to planet sales job. He does refuse Collette DuKane's proposal of marriage but more because he realizes that he'll resent her power and constant on-the-go lifestyle than because she is fat.
This book is about Ethan, September, Milliken, Hunnar and the
Slanderscree trying to put together a Trannish coalition so that
Tran-Ky-Ky can be given membership into the Commonwealth. Unfortunately
for them, greedy humans, self-serving tran and one particularly insane
tran, stand in their way.
On their journey, they discover information that makes it
imperative that Tran-Ky-Ky joins the commonwealth, for the good of all
Tran the world over.
| My Thoughts: |
Well, this held up to my previous reading
and stayed at 4 stars.
I used the link to my review at Booklikes
because my original review on blogspot, which has been transferred to
wordpress, was a Year by Month list. I wasn't keeping track online yet
and was just using a paper notebook. Once I started online, I had to
copy out everything since 2000 and it was easier to do a year at a time
instead of each individual book. Just goes to show how my reviewing
style has changed and grown over the years:
This was much weaker than Icerigger both in terms of
adventure and interesting characters. The already existing characters
are pretty static and the new characters who show up are there to either
cause problems, be killed off or act as allies, nothing more, nothing
less.
On the adventure side of things, it just didn't grab me the same
way. There is a battle at Moulokin that wasn't nearly as good as the
battle between the Horde and the Settlement in Icerigger and
the Slanderscree's overland journey didn't nearly match up to the
journey to Brassmonkey from the previous book. There is still a lot of
action, it just wasn't as good. I can't pin it down any further than
that, sadly.
Overall, while I enjoyed this read and am glad I made it part of my
Project Reread, I don't think I'll be reading it again. It is time to
let this sit and relax with all the other books I've read.
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