Customer Reviews

Smoke and Mirrors

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What can i say? I'm really happy with this book. It was interesting and the characters were well portrayed. I'm a big Gambit & Rogue fan so for me it's especially nice to see a book with them as major contributing characters. I have fallen in love with the Ohio Mutant Conspiracy! I don't want to give the book away so i won't say anything else about them. This book kept me guessing the end up until it! Very few books have pulled that one on me. Obviously we all know who the villian is in this book, so that was a dead giveaway but i mean other than that i have no issues with this book. In fact it's one of my favs! I'd like to see another book dedicated just to the Ohio Mutant Conspiracy, they are amazing characters.

So anyway, I encourage all X-Men fans especially R&R ones to get this book. If you enjoy X-Men books and like to see new and interesting characters this is the book for you.

The best thing about this book was the action details. They were well describe and thought out and the author obviously did her research to make this a little believable. I just hated all the goofy powers the teenagers possessed. I'm a big fan of Rouge and Gambit but...not in this book. I wish Gambit had a bigger and stronger role in one of the X-Men novels but...oh well. Sci-fi is not my favorite genre when if comes to books but this was decent.

This novel brings the magic of the comic to simple words. While some of the action moments loose from having no pictures, the gains of only words make for great reading.

Proffessor Arnold Bocklin has discovered the specific gene for mutation, and a way to remove it, albeit with a high mortality rate. Now, with the probable passing of a bill that calls for forcing medical procedures, the X-Men have to do something, before they are all forcibly changed to humans or dead. Of course, becoming human isn't such a bad thing to some mutants, especially Rogue, who is torn between desperately wanting to lead a normal life and kiss Gambit, and staying a mutant with the joys of family the X-Men bring. However, the choice is torn from her as a plan to locate the labs goes awry.

An excellent sub-plot follows a group of kids, as they try to escape from agents planning to test the process on them.

This novel is excellent, especially for fans of the Gambit-Rogue romance. Scenes of the two of the together abound, including Remy distraught over his lady-love.

I was pleasantly surprised by this book. I wouldn't ordinarily read a book based on comics characters (I read the comics for that), but I read this (and a number of similar books) during my big X-Men phase when I couldn't get enough of the mutants. This was by far the best. I think this was due to the fact that fighting was de-emphasized, which was a good choice since fighting doesn't translate well to prose. I enjoyed the team's interaction, and I loved the Ohio Mutant Conspiracy (especially rewind). The ending was surprisingly downbeat, but appropriate. Check this out if you like the X-Men, but are leary of the X-Men novels.

*Note--contains spoilers.*

Eluki Bes Shahar is certainly one of the better writers Marvel has gotten for their novels. Ms. Shahar manages to both do justice to established characters, such as the X-Men and Mr. Sinister, while bringing life to new creations, such as the wonderful "Ohio Mutant Conspiracy." The only flaw I could find was the Wolverine-like woman; it seemed to detract from the rest of the work. Otherwise, highly recommended for Marvel Comics fans.

This wasn't a bad book. I for one liked the introduction of the younger kids, but It could have foucoused more on the X-men themselves. Rogue was portrayed fairly well here, all in all not bad. But if your looking for a light read..read elsewhere it's heavy. I'd reccomend it for any X-men collection though.

I thought Smoke and Mirrors had an interesting plot. The Children OF THe Atom were trying to stop a law that was called the Emergency Intervention Bill from being passed. It wanted complete control over mutants. I think it got confusing when Mr. Sinister explained to the X-Men what his plan really was becausing he was posing as a scientest.

i thought this book was pretty good. it would have been a lot better if the author didn't include the younger mutants. i think it just should have focused on the x-men. i was bored with the younger mutants and i really felt that they never should have been included in this book. but other then that i loved it.

i thought this book was pretty good. it would have been a lot better if the author didn't include the younger mutants. i think it just should have focused on the x-men. i was bored with the younger mutants and i really felt that they never should have been included in this book. but other then that i loved it.

Great reading. If not for the cover art you would not know the villians id. till near the end.