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20 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not for fans of Lois and Clark, May 1, 2000
Like many other reviewers here, I bought this book because of its apparent tie-in with the TV series. The title (Lois and Clark); the picture of Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher on the cover; the cover description of the book as a 'sparkling romantic adventure'; all these persuaded me that it was worth buying. Instead, basically it acted as a cure for insomnia while I was staying in a not-very-comfortable hotel. It is *not* about Lois and Clark. It's about Superman, and to a degree about Lois; Clark is barely mentioned. It is certainly not a 'romantic adventure' - where's the romance when the two lead characters are separated for the entire book and don't even speak to each other? Superman disappears to assist with a natural disaster in Russia, without letting Lois know where he is. Somehow, no news or wire service manages to pick up his presence in that region, which is somewhat incredible anyway, so Lois can't find out through that means. Yet she has other things on her mind - including visiting Lex Luthor in prison. Why! I will concede that there were parts of the book which were mildly interesting, but I haven't re-read it since and can't see myself wanting to do so while there's so much better available on the Internet. For anyone looking for romantic Lois *and* Clark adventure fiction, just check out the fanfiction archive instead! You'll save yourself a lot of money and get far better stories to read at the same time.
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11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
There's Superman, there's Lois - where's Lois and Clark?, April 6, 2002
By A Customer
...I had thoroughly enjoyed Cherryh's fantasy novels and so had high expectations of this book - based, so the blurb claimed, on my favourite series and penned by one of my favourite authors. How could it fail?Well, quite simply, it failed for me because calling it a novel based on the TV series was a fraud and a misnomer. Calling it a novel based on the comic books would have been more honest. What a huge disappointment! If you are a fan of the comic books you will probably enjoy this tale of Superman battling disasters while Lois investigates an entirely separate plot strand back in Metropolis. I think they were together for about 2 paragraphs in total. Okay, slight exaggeration. But what I wanted to read about was the characters in the TV show and I didn't find them anywhere in this. Coupled with the Superman dominated storyline, I found myself increasingly irritated with references and characterisations lifted straight from the comic books - in direct contradiction to the characterisations set up in the TV show. In Cherryh's novel for instance Lois has a cat. She does in the comics, certainly. It must have been invisible on the screen because I never saw it there. Or ever heard it mentioned. There were other such anomolies throughout. By the end of this book I was wondering if Cherryh had even watched an episode of the show before penning this one. Nice cover though.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
For fans of CJ Cherryh, not Lois & Clark, June 14, 2001
Everyone either loves this book or hates it. If you're a Cherryh fan, you'll definitely love it. If you're a Lois and Clark fan, you might hate it. It has nothing to do with the TV show, and I can't imagine why she named it that, except that it's an attempt at a realistic portrayal of their relationship. But I think the allegations that it's just another TV tie-in money-grubbing scheme are unfair. She's written 56 books in 23 years and won 3 Hugo awards. So like I said, if you're a Cherryh fan, buy it, you'll love it. If you're not, don't.
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