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| Topic Started: 2 Aug 2008, 08:10 (310 Views) | |
| Jedikatie | 2 Aug 2008, 08:10 Post #1 |
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Okay, so they're apparentlly starting a novel series about The 4400, and this is the first one in it. Set midway through the third season (so Shawn and Isabelle are dating, Tom's with Alana, and Diana and Marco are seeing each other), the Nova Group's leader, Daniel, was taken into custody only a week before the events in the book. It was a pretty good story, written by someone who actually knows the Seattle area (seeing as the author was a native of Seattle), so the locations and the like ring true, and doesn't sound like someone who's working off a map or something like that. The "Vesuvius Prophecy" it refers to is one of Maia's visions, though it's not Vesuvius itself but Mt. Rainier that is the threat. And intermixed in the story is another legendary figure from Washington's past, and whether or not the person they're chasing really is that legendary person who disappeared into the wilderness of Washington back in November 1971 or not. You'll get the final answer to the question about 2/3 of the way through the book... All in all, I could definitely see it as an actual episode of the series (if it was still on), and the characters were all very well done and believable. It had the right mix of things from the show to make me believe that the author was a fan of the show as well. *** I also saw, when looking up whether there would be more novels, that a second novel, called The 4400: Wet Work is due to be released in late October. |
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| Jedikatie | 16 Nov 2009, 07:51 Post #2 |
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Well, I've just finished reading the second of the two novels set after the series finale. In the first book, The 4400: Welcome to Promise City, the story was largely about an attempt to make a perfect copies of Danny Farrell (Tom Baldwin's nephew and Shawn's brother) so that those who wanted to spread promicin around the world could send out these "clones" whose ability is to spread an airborne version of promicin, thereby killing half the population of the world while the other half lived and gained new abilities. There was also Tom still trying to decide whether or not to take the shot that his son Kyle had given him at the end of the last episode. Maia is also getting into trouble with Diana because she keeps telling Jordan her prophecies rather than her mother, which doesn't go over well with Diana. And the Marked were also in it, though they don't have a lot to do specifically in this story--they're more for the set up of what happens in the next story. It was an okay story, but that's about it. The second novel, 4400: Promises Broken, which picks up a few months after the events in the first one, however, was much better. The government has decided that it wants to take Seattle back, and is just looking for an excuse to do so. Dennis Ryland makes a reappearance, and is his usual self-righteous self. Too bad his own desire to stop the spread of promicin and Jordan Collier's movement blinds him to a few things he should have been paying attention to, like where did these people who are offering him a way to do just that (while not hurting anyone) came from... Kyle's "ability" (the redhead named Cassie who gives him advice) has really gone off the deep end in this book, and is taking Kyle along with her, making him do things that he knows are not right. Maia has become a typical teen, and has run away from home and joined Jordan's movement, because she doesn't think Diana understands her. And of course the NTAC agents--Tom, Diana, Marco and Jed Garrity--are in the middle of the battle when it finally does break out. I think you'd appreciate this book, Rigil--lots of action, especially whenever they're in Seattle. But then there's the matter of another, even deadlier threat than the little pitched battle for control of Seattle, which is also going on... and one which is only known to the perpetrators and one other, who's desperately trying to get some help to stop it, before the world ends... for everyone. And there's finally a resolution to the question of whether or not Tom will take the shot. So while I liked the first book, Welcome to Promise City, I'd only give it 3 stars out of 5, but the second book, Promises Broken, I'd rate as 5 stars, because it certainly delivered. It made me wish that we'd gotten a fifth season, because I would have loved to seen something like that play out on TV... |
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