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Title: Cobra Traitor
Series: Cobra Rebellion #3
Author: Timothy Zahn
Rating: 2.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: SF
Pages: 416
Format: Trade Paperback
Title: Cobra Traitor
Series: Cobra Rebellion #3
Author: Timothy Zahn
Rating: 2.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: SF
Pages: 416
Format: Trade Paperback
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Synopsis:
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Merrick Broom is on
a world to find the war drug that the Trofts are going to use on
humans to infiltrate the Dominion of Man and cause havoc. He hooks up
with some freedom fighters and a Troft from an opposing Demesne.
The Dominion of Man
has taken over Aventine, the capital Cobra world and now it is up to
the Cobras there to figure out a way to throw them off without
getting the entire planet scorched. Or every Cobra with a slave
collar on.
The Qasaman's are
playing their own games, with various drugs and secret cobra
soldiers.
Everything ends
with the “bad” Troft alliance falling apart due to the various
other characters all working together. Jody Broom and the Cobra
Traitor head to the main Dominion of Man world to show what happened
and to sway public opinion in favor of the Cobra worlds.
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My
Thoughts:
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Well, besides the original Cobra,
none of these other Cobra books have really worked for me. This
is book 9, the third trilogy and I'm done. Zahn was a favorite of
mine growing up and he wrote some cracking good books, but this
recent stuff, it's boring and stilted. It doesn't help that I was
reading this on my lunch breaks and so only got in 20minutes at a
time.
Funnily
enough, my review of Cobra
Outlaw really
sums up how I felt about this book. Too many viewpoints, too much
going on and not interesting enough. It came across as a political
thriller in space with more focus on the Cobra worlds trying to deal
with bigger forces by means other than violence. Sorry, Cobras are
super weapons, use the heck out of them and let the chips fall where
they may. I know that Zahn CAN write politically oriented SF very
engagingly, as evidenced by his Conquerors
trilogy
but this wasn't the series of books to do that. Super Soldiers, Super
Soldiers, Super Soldiers. Come on, USE them.
It
also doesn't help things that I read Cobra
Outlaw almost
3 years ago and Cobra
Slave almost
5 years ago. If I were going to force myself to read any more Cobra
books, I'd have to wait until the entire thing is completed and go
through it in a couple of months. Zahn is not a fast paced author in
terms of plot and action and so his stuff really relies on ideas,
which get fuzzy after a couple of years.
Can't recommend this to anyone besides really diehard Cobra fans.
Honestly, I might just go read the original novel and pretend none of
these other books exist.
★★☆☆½
