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Mechwarior: Dark Age #10: Flight of the Falcon (A BattleTech Novel) (Mechwarrior)

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While the Steel Wolves provide immense entertainment in this new MechWarrior universe, there is something to be said for having a "real" Clan becoming involved in the Republic. Flight of the Falcon brings back our favorite, tradition-bound, Jade Falcons. Except this time, the Falcons are less tradition oriented than in previous books. The Falcons, taking advantage of the Republic's misfortunes, decides to move into the Skye system in order to gain a foothold for future expansion. Introduced are two sibkin who both have Bloodnames, a rarity. Malvina and Aleks Hazen provide the sterotypical opposites-Malvina is vicious and bloodthirsty, while Aleks proves to be more thoughtful and strategy-oriented. Both are Galaxy Commanders, working to conquer Skye. Countess Tara Campbell and the Highlanders once again provide the defense for the Republic, with Countess Campbell receiving some help from an old acquaintance. I enjoyed this novel as I have previous ones in the series. However, I am starting to have a problem with the fact that while BattleMechs are supposed to be a rarity, everyone still seems to have plenty of them. The Industrial, Forestry, and Construction Mechs play a large role in the Dark Age Game, and I would hope that they'd continue to play a larger role in the novels. That being said, those Mechs aren't as fun to read about due to their armament limitations. Also as these novels progress, it is hard to see how the Republic continues to even stand against all of their foes. With the multitude of factions constantly sniping at their borders it seems unlikely that Tara Campbell can continue to be the main defense...after all, she can't be everywhere at once! Overall, though, this book serves its purpose-it is entertaining and it continues the story arc. I'm looking forward to future installments of this series.

The previous Mechwarrior: DarkAge books were, um, weak. But Flight of the Falcon breathes some new life into the series. Victor Milan is one of the best Battletech writers.

In this book, the Clans come to life again. The Clans you love to hate: vicious, skilled, myopic, relentless. Not the cariatures of the Clans that have inhabited the last several years of BT books.

I will say this though - I am getting really tired of the Tara Campbell character. That is no reflection on Milan though. He works with the material he is given.

I can't understand why this book received such negative reviews. I found this book very enjoyable. Especially since it finally brings the Jade Falcons into the Dark Age storyline.

I am a 15 year old kid and a fan of mechwarrior. I had not really read any of the books before but I gave it a try. The word choice was difficult for me because of the foreign words and that my vocabulary is not up to par. As for the book, unless you are a fan of the RPG, computergames, or the wizkids mechwarrior game you will not really have any interest in this book. It is packed with your favorite clans or at least mine the Jade falcon. The book jumps around a lot but the book will tell u place you're jumping to and the date for convenience. Over this entire book will help you better understand the properties of these game and background to your clans.

I don't know why the other people did not like the book, but i did i like it alot but that's my opinion.

I am an emerging science fiction author. I am also an old fan of the Mechwarrior RPG. I wanted an example of descriptive scifi action to learn from. I made a BAD choice with this book. I forced myself through the first 25 pages and threw this book across the room. Victor Milan's usage of the English language is incomprehensible. It takes him 25 pages to describe three minutes of action - and I use the word "action" loosely. He get's sidetracked in irrelevant topics of internal politics and sordid details of sex between siblings every other paragraph. Victor! Show us the big picture! What's going on?! I don't care about the minutia! You gotta write lean an mean when trying to write action.

This was the novel that killed MW:DA for me. Having read all the Battletech novels, I decided to give the Dark Age novels the benefit of the doubt. They were okay. I felt that I was getting my money's worth. There were minor inconsistencies where the author obviously didn't know their subject matter, but hey, I was willing to overlook it and follow the series.

That's when I bought this book. From sex and nudity to the wholesale slaughter of civillians in order to pacify worlds, this book was offensive on so many levels. The old Battletech books--while dealing with the occasional mature theme--were so skillfully written that these themes were either glossed over or written so that they were appropriate for someone around the age or 9 or 10. I wouldn't let any child read this book (and reviews here on Amazon are stating that the content is getting much worse with the later novels).

This content is NOT what I expect from a game that has been traditionally family-friendly since 1984. I got about halfway through the book before putting it down and swearing off the rest of the series.

The 'talking chicken' book (Far Country) was better than this nauseating piece of drek. Don't waste your money.