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Post by The Doctor on Aug 15, 2013 10:39:36 GMT
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Post by blueshift on Aug 15, 2013 10:46:57 GMT
It can't be to the Sunbow show, it looks slightly serious! |
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 15, 2013 10:49:35 GMT
Indeed, but I can't see what other animated show it ties into, going by the description.
Maybe Optimus Prime will play basketball with Jazz during a battle or something.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 5, 2014 18:11:00 GMT
It was in the library this evening, so I swooped like a vast predatory bird upon it. How bad can it be?
-Ralph
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Post by KnightBeat on Mar 5, 2014 22:51:02 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 8, 2014 13:51:05 GMT
It's the least-worse of the official TF novels but that is not saying much. It's readable but thunderingly dull. It confused me immensely at first as the blurb implied it was a prequel to the original animated series but it featured characters who couldn't be about then. I think it's one of these Aligned Continuity things.
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Mar 8, 2014 19:57:30 GMT
I saw it in Waterstones today. The back talked about the Allspark and Star Seekers which would suggest Aligned Continuity. It did however also bamg on about the Sunbow show in perculiar way thay suggested people had somehow forgotten about Transformers recently!
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Post by KnightBeat on Mar 9, 2014 0:21:32 GMT
"It's the least-worse of the official TF novels" -Ralph
This quote should appear on the cover of the reprint.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 9, 2014 18:54:13 GMT
Just finished it myself.
Ralph and I will have more detailed opinions on an upcoming Stardub. There was some material in the book that could have been fun, but the prose style was leaden. Also sentences in FULL CAPS for no reason.
ARGH!
Andy
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Post by legios on Mar 9, 2014 19:44:44 GMT
There is a copy in the Waterstones in Falkirk, I have been tempted to pick it up myself on ocassion - but every time I do I am reminded of my experiences with previous officially released Transformers prose novels and I think better of it. It sounds like the correct tactic would be to wait and see if it shows up in The Works for a couple of quid.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 9, 2014 19:52:22 GMT
Indeed, or if like me you find it in a library!
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Mar 9, 2014 19:56:17 GMT
oh, if in the unlikely event it cropped up in the Falkirk Library Service I will give it a go that way, but I think the odds of them getting it into their stock are relatively small. (They only bothered with one TF Novel so far, and the borrowing rate of that was... not spectacular shall we say).
Karl
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Mar 9, 2014 20:03:38 GMT
Multiple copies of Exodus (and some Titan graphic novels) are gracing the works in Glasgow currently so it is indeed possible it will wind up there soon.
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 8, 2014 22:16:15 GMT
Ralph and I will have more detailed opinions on an upcoming Stardub. There was some material in the book that could have been fun, but the prose style was leaden. Also sentences in FULL CAPS for no reason. Have just read this and totally agree with what you say: the plot suggests it could have been fun, but my god was the writing pedestrian. It almost felt in the last third that the writers had given up themselves, at times it was reduced almost to bullet point plotting. Very minor inconsequential spoilers: I think the idea was better than the two Alex Irvine novels, but I found myself longing for his writing - and that in itself wasn't that good. This book kept using expressions that would have been alien to Transformers, the first example being at the start of the book when Starscream tells Thundercracker to 'get on his six'. Why would he refer to a human clock when they've never been to Earth? The book is full of things like that that just jar. Nothing as big as the concept though that Prime can reach into his chest and switch the matrix off. I mean, what? switch it off? like a light?
I was also under the impression this book was supposed to be the third in the 'trilogy' leading into the beginning of TF Prime, I'm sure I read that somewhere, but if you match this to the Covenant of Primus there's a whole section still untold as a proper novel. I was really expecting this one to end on Earth.
It's a shame. At times in my mind I could see this unfolding far better than it was being written. It would have made a better comic I think because it was desperately trying to be visual. However, top marks for including a way to explain Sharkticon Megatron. That made me laugh. |
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