Relentless Propagation Area 51 remains a mysterious enclave of eerie synergy and unleashed power a nightmare poised to take the world to hell. A madman has marshaled an army of incorporeal, alien evil, a virus with intelligence now scything through human hosts like locusts. For the Cerberus warriors, a willingness to forge a truce with a devious enemy means that they have met unspeakable horror. Now, they must stop the unstoppable, before humanity becomes discarded vessels of feeding energy for ravenous disembodied monsters.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Again, nothing original, nothing special.,
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This review is from: Ghostwalk (Outlanders) (Mass Market Paperback)
As with previous Outlanders, the plot is nothing special. And, again, the cover art has little to do with the story - do these artists even know the plot?! Plus the babe on the cover bears little resemblance to the description of Erica Von Sloan.
My pet peeve with the past several books has been refined to an art form. This should be titled "how to pad the book with useless blather." Every time a character, place or event is mentioned for the first time (in every book) we get the entire back story, usually two or three pages - sometimes several. We get birthdates, birth cities, employment history, personality traits, etc. Almost the same pager verbatim in every single book! This accounts for about 35 pages of the paperback - just pure rehash and padding. An additional 50 pages - about ¼ inch of the book - is a sampling from the next book. Between this waste of space and the previously mentioned padding, about $1.50 of the cover price is a total waste of money. And, again, in keeping with the series, the end is not thought out, and seems way too rushed. Either he ran out of ideas or pages - but it's obvious. Another cr*ppy ending. We also have the old Star Trek "Red Shirt" theme. You know - if an away team landed on a planet, the guy with the Red Shirt buys the farm. In this series, it's the new Magistrate. Will I continue reading the series? Probably. But PLEASE eliminate the padding, fluff and "Coming soon to the next book..." crapola. Use that space to improve the book! It obvious that the editing process ws also rushed, but this typical of this publisher.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Outlanders' Ghostwalk is a 'Ghost' of its former self!,
By Apollo Reader (Florida) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ghostwalk (Outlanders) (Mass Market Paperback)
Being the number #1 reviewer of BOTH Outlanders AND Deathlands series here, we are without a doubt one of the hardest core fans of both series since their respective inceptions. So, with that said, we are sad to say that this 45th installment of the Outlanders series is, unfortunately, perhaps one of the worst of the bunch. And there are numerous reasons for this.
Firstoff, the story outline itself is pretty bland and boring. At least it isn't the typical storyline with a search for a mystical artifact, then ending with the typical massive explosion. It seems that despite his objections to our opinions, the author Mark Ellis seems to be listening to us. We were the only ones to point out his various weak points in his overall plots, and with the last 4 books, he has covered those issues, one way or the other. James Axler, pen name for Mark Ellis in this novel, is without a doubt a solid writer, but with stinkers like this one, he tends to rip-off his reader fan base with massive amounts of gobs of rehash prose that has been already written over and over for well over 3-some-odd-books - at least! And Ghostwalk, at only a mere 281 pages this time, is chock full of rehash that these readers have already read numerous times already! Now you tell us, who wants to pay good jack on a novel that has lots of pages with the exact wording of the last ton of books? Major issue there. Ghostwalk starts off with a decent enough action sequence, with Kane lurking around a destroyed village in New Mexico, nearby the infamous Area 51. By chapter two however, after Kane gets shot in the shoulder by his enemy in a group called the Millenial Consortium, Kane manages to take the man down, severing his Achilles heel. Then instead of killing him, he uncharacteristically decides to help him, binding his wound. (This is where we rolled our eyes.) Overall, Ellis gives us a tale of a intelligent agent in the Millienial Consortium who is lead to Area 51 with info given to him by Erica van Sloan, a freezie scientist who comes and goes throughout the series, to find a hidden and mysterious power within a section in Area 51. The Millenial Consortium agent finds an alien intelligent virus, an army of incorporeal green balls that can suck the life out of a person. (That's right, green balls! We laughed too.) And that is the crux of the problem. The novel is not only chock-full of already written rehash, but there is so much technobabble that slows down the pace, as well as the usual stagnation of the main characters, (including another scene with Kane turning down yet another beautiful woman to make love too), makes Ghostwalk a hoo-humm, somewhat dreadful read. Is Mark Ellis losing his mojo? Perhaps the only saving grace to this novel is the 57-page preview of the next installment, titled Pantheon of Vengeance, written by the 3rd author to pen this series. Just the first chapter alone is better than the whole storyline of Ghostwalk. It came across as being different, something between a cross of Battletech/Transformers. And after seeing the awesome Ironman movie this past weekend, this new novel just may be the breath of fresh air that this series needs. Like Victor Milan did. This is what this series desperately needs. A writer like Victor Milan, bold enough to take these group of characters and make them more human than Ellis writes them. With Ellis, Grant just continues to growl, Brigid is still frigid, and Kane is apparently a eunuch, seeming to turn down any hot babe, whether alien or human. Been there, done that. These scenes are just not written realistically. Let us hope this new writer, Douglad Wojohowitz, (Or something like that. The name reminds us of that dumb but funny detective in the classic comedy series, Barney Miller), can take this series and run with it.
3.0 out of 5 stars
It is showing...,
By Chris Van Deelen "Chris Van Deelen" (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ghostwalk (Outlanders) (Mass Market Paperback)
Yup, it's showing.
All these years of writing for the series, it's showing now. This book wasn't great, but it wasn't bad. No where near as bad as some of the previous novels written by others were. I'll dispense with my typical long winded review and just get straight to the heart of the matter. After all these years, and after all these books with Mark being the the last of a breed--the ONLY Gold Eagle writer who actually created the series he writes, he deserves an off day, especially when you take into account the formulized by the numbers crap Gold Eagle churns out every month. Enough of this, now on to the review itself. It was good to see the return to Area 51 in the series. This location has played key roles several times. Also, even though I was disappointed by one specific story line being tied up, it was good to see closure, finally. I can't really go into details about it, because it would spoil things. But it's one plot thread that has been around for a very long time. The back cover was more than a little misleading - and I won't deny that I had feelings of Déjà vu while reading it, as the premise seemed very similar to Ghost of Mars. Thankfully I was wrong. So, don't let the blurb on the back cover throw you off. The action, I found, was lack-lustre. Usually the action is better written than what we had in this book. Although it was good to see the Dragon lady, AKA Erica van Sloan once again, even though she is working for the Millennium Consortium. Without giving away too much, it did show another side to the character, and this is why other than Sindri, she remains to this day one of the best written characters in the series. She is self serving, and will do what she needs to survive, and to hold onto power. Hey, at least the characters were in form. I can't say if the research was correct, but I bet if I looked up some of the theories that were presented in the novel online, they would be sound. I wouldn't expect less from Mark Ellis. In closing, no matter what your job is, when you are treated less than respectfully, your work will reflect it. Ghostwalker is a prime example of this. 3 out of 5
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