The baronial machine ruling post-apocalyptic America is no more, yet even as settlers leave the fortressed cities and attempt to build new lives in the untamed outlands, a deadly new struggle is born. The hybrid barons have evolved into their new forms, their avaricious scope expanding to encompass the entire world. Though the war has changed, the struggle for the Cerberus rebels remains the same: save humanity from its slavers.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A spicy adventure yarn!,
By Daniel (Pine Bluff, ARK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cerberus Storm (Outlanders) (Mass Market Paperback)
Cerberus Storm is a great adventure yarn that frankly surprised me because it was so low-tech.
I was expecting the second chapter in the conflict with the Overlords but instead, the book expanded upon the Millennial Consortium who briefly appeared back in Evil Abyss and featured Sky Dog a lot more prominently than any other OL book. In a lot of ways, Cerberus Storm reminded me of the movie Last of the Mohicans since almost all of it was set in the wilderness and set Kane, Brigid and Grant against the forces of nature and creepifying Indian magic. There are overland treks and boat journeys down rivers and frontier scum-buckets and ambushes. There's a lot of graphic violence in this book. The Millennial Consortium is a very interesting new group of adversaries, particularly their weird leader, Benedict Snow. I'm pretty sure we'll see a lot more of these guys in future OL novels. My two favorite things about Cerberus Storm are the scenes where our heroes are stripped pretty much to their bare essentials yet still come out victorious. Even Kane talks about how they might have become too reliant on their guns and tech instead of their wits. After Successors with its fixation on big guns, big ATVs, big grenades and big mouths, this attitude was a refreshing change. My most favorite thing about Cerberus Storm: Catamount! A crazy American Indian version of Catwoman! She's a great character, fascinating, sexy, sympathetic and scary! Her loving relationship with the vicious cougar, Deathmaul is really strange, too. There's even some hints of lesbo stuff between her and Brigid. Spicy! If warrior women characters make certain readers uncomfortable, then Catamount will really shake them up. She's like Fand, Ambika and Sif all rolled into one but with a degree of depth that those characters didn't have. Catamount is a great character, one of the most memorable to appear in any OL book. [...] Overall, Cerberus Storm is a very different kind of OL adventure, a little more paranormal than s.f., but it's a fast-moving and colorful tale with plenty of action and boatloads of interesting characters.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another wonderful read,
By Gary (St. Louis, MO) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cerberus Storm (Outlanders) (Mass Market Paperback)
This book starts with a full-out run (by a Lakota warrior) and doesn't let up for an instant. It was very difficult to set this book down (which I find typical of the Outlanders series).
It is amazing that, after the years of combating and finally triumphing over the Baronies, a new antagonist could so convincingly be proposed. It shouldn't come as a surprise based on the past performance of this series, but as merely a reader it seemed a difficult achievement. The author draws upon clues and presumably minor events in previous books to form the basis for the new antagonists (former Lakotan tribeswomen and the Millennial Consortium) without any breaks in tempo or belief. Several have described this episode as a "Western," but it seems to me that this is just an attempt to attach a label. Sure, it's a story with horses, Amerindians, and located in the "West", but it is an adventure story like its predecessors - plain and simple. Whether the characters wield swords, guns, or lasers seems irrelevant to me. It is a another great story of several individuals trying to do what is right and just in a land that is rife with treachery, greed, and oppression. It is less reliant on technology than previous episodes due to the events that transpire, but this does not increase or reduce the level of danger to the protagonists. The fallability and vulnerability of the characters continues to keep these stories believable even in fantastic scenarioes. Cerberus Storm's events are less fantasic than previous episodes, but this does not reduce the story's strength. The combat encounters that the protagonists endure do not always go in their favor; in fact, only when they were optimally outfitted do they seem to triumph - a fact pointed out by Kane. The author also manages to keep the reader guessing as to the depth of their fallability when they appear to make the same mistake several times. Overall, I found this novel to be highly entertaining and a great addition to the series! With regard to some comments made by individuals with an obvious agenda, this is not a Deathlands novel. It is not an attempt to write a Deathlands novel nor show how a Deathlands novel should be written. This suggestion is an absurdity. If the author wanted to write a Deathlands novel, Gold Eagle would certainly not hesitate to allow him to do so. There is a recapitulation of past information in this novella, but only to the extent of fleshing out a current event. The presence of such summaries are no more intrusive than any other description of settings or characters. Complaints of recapitulation are as useless as complaining of an author's description of a sunrise (it is assumed that the reader already knows what a sunrise looks like). Also, readers complaining about whether or not two characters have sex or not need to take a good look at what they're reading. Even though Gold Eagle is owned by Harlequin, that relationship does not edict descriptive sexual encounters. The author has developed a series of characters who happen to not have sex with each other. The author is telling a detailed and complex adventure story - not sell sex. Get over it. There are plenty of other authors out there that will sell sex to you - patronize them. It is also obvious that the particular reviewer that I refer to has not read the book thoroughly (or those obnoxious recaps he complains about). Otherwise, he would know why Kane and Grant aren't killed by Catamount and the Lynx Soldiers, that Brigid has an eidetic memory, she has been trained in hand-to-hand and weapons combat, etc. It is true that there are a number of copy editing errors in the novel. If this is the reason to condemn a novella, then I guess we should all dislike most books and movies ever made.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent!,
By Lexus (Kansas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cerberus Storm (Outlanders) (Mass Market Paperback)
Another excellent book in the Outlanders series by Mark Ellis! Not quite as sci-fi as usual, there was a tad more paranormal in it, with all the American Indian lore. But it was still fast-paced and full of vivid characters.
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