Freebirth: Twilight of the Clans IV [Paperback]

Robert Thurston (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 1998

Ordered to investigate the secret experiment being carried out by the Falcons on the Smoke Jaguar homeworld, the freeborn warrior Horse is dispatched to the planet Huntress on a perilous covert mission. But when he is unexpectedly caught in a Smoke Jaguar trap, Horse finds himself duty-bound to the enemy...and closer to the strange mysteries of the Falcon stronghold than he ever could have imagined...

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Roc; First Thus edition (February 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451456653
• ISBN-13: 978-0451456656
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,030,365 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book was awful!, June 11, 2000

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Scott Siatkowski - See all my reviews

This review is from: Freebirth: Twilight of the Clans IV (Paperback)

I could go on and on about how awful this book was. I don't even see how it was really necessary to the Twilight series. It was more like a soap opera than anything else. The ending was the most laughable part... "It's not over yet Horse! ," the drunken Clan bloodnamed warrior Howell screamed while flailing his arms in the air. Sad, just sad... I wish I could destroy a Summoner and a Warhammer with two LAMs. Just skip this book and go on to Twilight V.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Fair, but unneccesary, April 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Freebirth: Twilight of the Clans IV (Paperback)

The book had it's uses to give some detail for the Clan's viewpoints, as well as laying some groundwork for the next Thuston Twilight novel, but I thought it was way overdone and rather tedious. The relevant parts could have been placed piecemeal in other books and saved us the time. I guess for me it was just too unbelievable that Rossue Howell would end up like he did after learning about him in Exodus Road. Also, considering the way Smoke Jaguar feels about freebirths, what was he trying to accomplish with all that junk about making Horse a member of SJ clan? Since he was freeborn, I couldn't see Howell caring much about him, no matter how big a JF name he was (especially considering the natural animosity between most clans). I would rather imagine he would simply delegate him to the labor cast a forget about him, except for the occasional verbal barb to JF about him. The one combat scene strikes me as written in on the spur of the moment to have one in there. It does not read very well, and almost seems out of place. Maybe it was put in there to help explain why the Clans don't use LAM's.

Anyway, this book need not have been written, and definately not placed in the Twilight series, as it does virtually nothing to advance the plot.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Wished I could give '0' stars, April 9, 2002

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Jan-Thorsten Reszat (Germany) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Freebirth: Twilight of the Clans IV (Paperback)

I really liked Thurston's Jade Phoenix trilogy which gives us the major and most detailed description of Clan society in the btech universe.
But 'Freebirth' is an absolute pain. It's chaotic, it makes no sense, it is full of logical mistakes, it's simply embarassing.
You want facts? How's this:
2 LAM's destroying 2 front class clan omnis pilotted by elite clan MW's...go dreamin'.
A proven clan officer who goes whack, acting like Jim Carey, and flopping around like Lieutenant Harris in Police Academy?
A solahma mechwarrior who's all of sudden competing like Natasha Kerensky herself (SCom Buhallin).
Oh, dear...you gotta wonder who's been the freeborn editor of this novel. So if you wanna do yourself a favor: Don't read this book, even if you're a die-hard btech reader. And its story doesnt even play any role in the subsequent novels of the Twilight of the Clans series. Go figure.