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5.0 out of 5 stars
A Powerful War, September 29, 2001
This review is from: The Female War: Aliens, Book 3 (Paperback)
This is a classic example of an excellent aliens book. The die hard alien fans would find this a treat and even the neutral audiences would find something to smile about in this fantastically written book. It has action, gore, sex, surprises and great characters. This book is one of my best from all the aliens books; only 2nd to Aliens vs. Predator:Prey. Read this book and if you like it check these out! Aliens:Labyrinth, Aliens:Nightmare Asylum, Aliens:Earth Hive, Aliens:Rogue, Alien:Music of the spears, Aliens:Genocide, Aliens:Alien Harvest, Aliens vs. Predator:Prey, Aliens vs. Predator:War, Aliens vs. Predator:Hunters Planet, Predator:Cold War, Predator:Concrete Jungle, Predator:Big Game.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A nice conclusion to Perry's trilogy, April 4, 1999
This review is from: The Female War: Aliens, Book 3 (Paperback)
While Nightmare Asylum cast a madman in the role of the villain, Female War returns it to the banana headed bugs we've come to know. And it's focused on the biggest one of them all, the queen mother. While it's a very nice book, I have a few criticisms about it. The characters, other than Wilks, Billie, and Ripley, aren't very well deveoped. So there's isn't any real sense of loss when one of them gets killed. The ending offers some closure but also opens up new questions. I think that almost everyone who read this book wonders what happened to the crew? Based on some stuff in Genocide, we know the mission was a success but how does the crew explain hijacking a ship, taking it for a ride to a far away planet, getting some of the marines on board killed during the mission, and setting off some nukes in the Pacific Northwest? There are also a few criticisms in the aliens in the book. First of all, the queens have 6 arms, not 4. Second, what would be the point of having a queen mother? If the aliens don't have the ability to travel into space and to other planets at whim, wouldn't having an alien that only produced queens quickly put hives in competition with each other over limited territory? Of course, it might make sense if the theory that the aliens are another alien's engineered living weapons . . . But at heart (or whatever vitals they have), these are still the black-shelled monsters we've know and love(?) But despite these flaws, the book is really good. We didn't exactly spend lots of quality time with the marines in Aliens either and the queen mother is just one really nasty creature instead of an out-of-place being when you actually read the book. Having Riply and Billie right next to the perversion of motherhood of the queen mother was a nice touch. And finding out why Ripley is here when the book is set after Alien 3 is just as interesting as when the crew goes to the ground with the bugs.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
OK, July 5, 2000
This review is from: The Female War: Aliens, Book 3 (Paperback)
Female War had so much potential that it's a real shame to give it such a low rating. Unfortunately, it's one badly enough that it merits it. Wilks and Billie continue to have a lot of "development" scenes, the only problem being that the authors are basically restating their problems over and over. More than half the book is spent just introducing new characters, condensing the interesting stuff into about a hundred pages at the end. The climax seems rushed harried, and unfinished. The fight scenes are fairly well done, but again short and rushed. Stephani Perry's influence is seen in the writing style -- for the first time in this series, a semi-colon has been properly used, and there's not quite as much language or sex. Ripley is semi-interesting, but not developed enough in any way that counts. This book also shares a flaw with the first two in the trilogy -- namely, not enough of the title creatures. This trilogy has been enjoyable but dissapointing. If you really like Aliens, read them, if not, you're not really missing anything.
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