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Title: Predator: Turnabout (Predator) |
Review of Predator: Turnabout (Predator)
- Deep in the Alaskan forest, ranger Sloan comes across the torn and bloody carcasses of Grizzly bears. Searching a human cause for the massacres, he discovers a team of poachers hunkered within the Alaska wilderness, waiting for the chance to score a big kill. He also finds evidence of the most fearsome killers in the universe: the Predators.
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Comments for Predator: Turnabout (Predator)
- Posted on 2008-07-15
awesome
i loved the book so much that if i hadn't bought it i would have bought it again. my family said i turned into a vampire while i read it because i didnt go to sleep for 2 days because all i did was eat and read. if you havent bought this book you should buy it now.
Score: 5
- Posted on 2008-05-29
Pretty dang good! but could have been better...
I liked it! I dont particularly like combined alien predator stories, or stories in that series that are too futuristic. I like contemporary Earth setting and a person taking on preds (like the original film). This book delivered.
Here is why I did not give it five stars: I think it should have been discovered that her brother was killed by preds instead of bears, that would have been more interesting. Also, an ending where a bunch of the predator's friends show up to congradulate the main character sort of like what happened at the end of predator 2 would have been neat!
Score: 4
- Posted on 2008-05-20
Great Throwback for the Series
For anyone that seems to not think this is a great Predator novel, I think you're missing the point here. Yeah, it's not all about the predators hunting and deals with humans a lot, but this is a complete homage to the first movie.
We get an ex-marine sniper who knows how to hunt with the best of them, loaded with the latest and greatest technology, who is a survivalist at heart and can take on the best and baddest. He's basically Dutch at 60.
We get to see a new spin on what made the first movie so great, a fight between man and Predator on a somewhat level playing field. Rather than an all out shoot em up, this takes some great setups and trap tactics to tell a very convincing story about how most of us would love to live through.
Regardless, this story has great characters that you actually feel for by the end and some really neat ideas of how this type of battle would go down. If you remotely like any other novels in these series (Aliens as well), this is a must buy.
Not to mention Perry and daughter have been writing these things for years.
Score: 5 - Posted on 2008-05-07
Snipers, Poachers, and Predators ; oh my
Plain and simple: former Marine sniper, Sloane is now a park ranger in Alaska. A group of poachers are in his park taking a toll on the bears for blackmarket resale purposes. Mary shows up to visit the death site of her brother. Meanwhile the predators are having their Hunt on the bears but then focuses on the humans too. This is more a book about an old sniper taking out pent up aggressions on the poachers and the predators are bit players at best in this outing. I didn't mind the story but it could have been much better without Mary and with some more predator side action (describe a few Hunting scens for them please). This is a bit like the mini-series comics put out by Dark Horse Comics in the late 90s. Its alright but definitely need more predator action.
Score: 3
- Posted on 2008-04-07
Turnabaout and get your money Back!
Rating 2.5 is what we have given this newest novel since we've been a big fan of Steve Perry's writing for a long time since his once highly-acclaimed Matador series days.
But for a duo franchise that Predator and Aliens needs, unfortunately Steve and his daughter produced twin stinkers here. (What happened to this once great writer?)
Sure it is in an exotic setting of Alaska. Sure the storyline is quite simple, and does have some inventive and different takes for the Predator Hunt. Having an old sniper go against a small group of Predators was cool.
But having the Predators barely in it at all was a huge mistake. Kodiak bears play a more major role in this book than what the bloody book title suggests its Supposed to be! Predators! Weak character development here.
I guess John Shirley is the only writer here to step up and write solid outings in both franchises. The next Predator novel will have a new addition to the writers of the Predator franchise.
Lets hope he does a more solid and imaginative job that this franchise desperately needs. Hollywood is destroying both franchises, and now it seems the small team of writers besides Shirley are doing the same.
I'm sorry Mr. Perry, but you lost your edge here.
Score: 3
