Stargate Atlantis: Blood Ties: SGA--8 (Stargate Atlantis) by Sonny Whitelaw, Elizabeth Christensen Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Stargate Atlantis: Blood Ties: SGA--8 (Stargate Atlantis)
Book Review: Very clever book.......
Summary: 5 Stars
Enjoyed this book immensely. Just when you think you know where the story is going, it goes somewhere else. A real page turner. These two writers really have the characters down pat. Book Review: If the summary had accurately depicted this books content, I wouldn't have bought it.
Summary: 1 Stars
When I buy a Stargate Atlantis novel, I'm reading it because I enjoy the Atlantis characters and I wish to read about them. I was mislead by this books summary into thinking it would let me do that. Instead, what I got was the adventures of the multi-talented Rebecca Larance (featuring guest appearances by Lt. Col. John Sheppard and Dr. Daniel Jackson).
Larance is a blatant Mary Sue. She's "gorgeous" and supposedly a "brilliant" profiler, without whom the SGC, despite being populated by sundry geniuses, can't proceed in its murder investigation, yet she does next to nothing to justify being there. She was also the one who did Sheppard's psychological evaluation before he went to Antarctica, so, of course, she "really understands" him. And that she choose to let her bad marriage end in divorce means that she completely understands all the important, potentially life threatening decisions that Sheppard has had to make since going to Atlantis, because her problems must be on the same level as his. In addition, not only does she have the ATA gene and another rare gene, but she is "the one", complete with a sad, sad, tragic childhood and her very own prophecy. (The books end also leaves the door to further adventures of Larance wide open.)
The plot, which is convoluted to the point of being ridiculous, reads like the authors wanted to write two or three books, but they just couldn't develop their ideas well enough to do so, opting instead to throw it all into one book and attempt to draw flimsy connections between things which didn't believably relate, all in-between stating that long held truths in the canon of the Stargate universe are wrong because their ideas are the real truth.
The characterization was bad enough to be cringe worthy, especially that of Dr. McKay. Exogenesis had given me hope that maybe the authors had taken the time to watch the show, but Blood Ties shows me that they haven't. Dr. McKay, for example, is written as a coward (and while Rodney's words may at times be cowardly, his actions most certainly are not) and as borderline stupid in several occasions.
If the authors want to write an original book, they should have done so and sold it as such. This farce is only a Stargate Atlantis novel if you stand on your head and squint at it.
Book Review: Fantastic Book!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Stargate Atlantis: Blood Ties, I think is one of the best books in the Atlantis series. I like how Daniel Jackson, who is my favorite character, was put in the book. It was advertised as a non-crossover book, but it really was. The only thing I didn't like about the book, was the fact that the authors didn't mention where SG-1 was at the time. It would have been better if there was a brief appearance of SG-1 to explain their absence.
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