Carrier 18: Island Warriors [Paperback]

Keith Douglass (Author)

Book Description

Series: Carrier | Publication Date: August 1, 2001

China launches a full-scale invasion on Taiwan, its tiny capitalist island neighbor. While diplomats wage a battle of words in the United Nations, the real dirty work is to be done by Carrier Battle Group Fourteen--the only fighting force standing between the juggernaut of the Chinese military and the total annihilation of Taiwan.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Jove (August 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0515131156
• ISBN-13: 978-0515131154
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #800,400 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not As Good As the Earlier Books, October 16, 2001

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Dan Lee (Brampton, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Carrier 18: Island Warriors (Paperback)

I am starting to lose my patience with the Carrier series. Ever since the publisher started putting the books on a six or so months sched, the quality has really taken a nose dive.

In this book, the character development is really poor. Instead of getting to know the odd aviator or seaman, they all seem to be interchangeable parts with similar dialogue. I can't tell at times whether Batman or Coyote is doing the talking.

It seems that the plotting is out of control. In the earlier books, the secondary and diplomacy scenes helped the plot, but in this book they distract from the main plot.

The last three books have been the worst of the series and I am at the point where I have almost given up. It seems when the author spent the time to write, the book was good. If you really want to enjoy this series, read the first eight books.

I'd rather wait a couple of years to get a good book than get mediocre stuff every six months.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars still hanging in there, March 2, 2003

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JohnnyE "Texas Progressive" (College Station, TX USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Carrier 18: Island Warriors (Paperback)

this is fairly typical of the last few books in the series, unresolved sub plots, shoddy editing, implausible scenarios. But the next one starts getting the series back on track.

The thing that disturbs me most is that the author barely mentioned an important recurring character at the beginning of book 16, killed the character off at the end of book 17 after not being mentioned anywhere else in the story, and then in books 18 and 19 acted as if the character disappeared in book 16 not 17. He's writing the books so fast he can't even keep track of his own characters.

4.0 out of 5 stars ISLAND WARRIORS (Carrier series), December 15, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Carrier 18: Island Warriors (Paperback)

Plot is kinda lose needed to be tighten up a bit over all a fairly good read .. Wish I had read others back like 17 ect before reading this one..