Mass Effect: Revelation - Drew Karpyshyn

I finished reading this novel just last week, and I still cannot decide whether or not I liked it. The book takes place about 30 years before the computer game, Mass Effect takes place. This book gives the back story of one of the main characters of the game, Anderson. The book actually starts when Anderson was a recruit, only a decade after humanity was introduced into the Galactic Alliance. The main purpose of this book was to do a few things. The first was to allow hardcore fans of the game to gain some back story into what happened in the beginning, when humanity was new to the whole galactic community. The next ...  Read the complete review

For fans of TV tie in novels there is only one group that we can look down upon. We know that our books are churned out to make quick cash from a few hardcore fans, but even we know that we are better than this group. Most tie in novels based on shows such as 'Star Trek' or 'The X Files' etc have not been great, but at least they are populated with characters we know well and are interested in. This is more than can be said for fans of game tie in novels. The success of titles such as 'Halo' and 'Assassin's Creed' has meant that book publishers have contacted games designers about writing some books. Invariably these novels are abysmal as trying to make a story out ...  Read the complete review