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Stargate Atlantis: Exogenesis: SGA-5 (Stargate Atlantis)
by Sonny Whitelaw, Elizabeth Christensen

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Author: Elizabeth Christensen, Sonny Whitelaw
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-08-01
ISBN: 1905586027
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Fandemonium Books

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Book Review: Disappointing
Summary: 1 Stars

I like all the previous Stargate Atlantis novels and rank them between good, very good and excellent. But this is the first one I rank as pretty poor.

There are some good moments in it but that I also see positive aspects in this book has mainly to do with it that I am a big fan of the TV series and enjoy these characters. Some of the interaction, some of the character moments are very nice and there is some good humour in this book. But what saves this book from being a complete disaster to me is the part Weir is playing towards the end. She is decisive, inventive and shows good leadership, especially during the confrontation with Sheppard. For a moment I nearly forgot how much I was tempted before to stop reading.

Another plus is certainly the part Zelenka is playing. I like him and would welcome it to see him more often on TV. That the authors gave him more to do in this book is good but nevertheless, this novel is first of all a McKay book. He is my second favourite character of this series after Sheppard but within limits. Too much McKay, too much emphasis on his arrogance, his brilliance, his lack of personal skills is turning what is usually charming in spite of his weaknesses into an annoyance. Unfortunately this book never stops to tell the readers what a great guy he is. We also get excuses for his faults, namely his upbringing and his problems when growing up at being accepted as a genius. It was embarrassing. More, I felt annoyed.

After he was presumed dead the book adds another annoyance, meaning H/C (Hurt/Comfort) at its worst. This is a fan fiction term for stories written by female fans (I have never seen a H/C story written by a male fan) in which the hero is badly hurt or dangerously ill and lovingly nursed back to health. I have nothing against a bit of H/C. In moderation it can enrich a book but not if it is written like this.

Not that it was any surprise but it was revealed that Turpi, the woman who healed and nursed him is literally a beauty within an ugly shell - beauty inside of a beast comes to mind. What is annoying is, if the authors would have tuned town the flowery language at times, the exaggerated emotions, the soppy, sugar coated stuff, I would actually have enjoyed reading this part of the book. But reading that Turpi was immediately in love with this tragic but so precious soul within McKay`s body (maybe it was even meant as, like her), that was too much. And after her end, the authors went over the top again, describing how devastated he was.

This is another book showing us that the Ancients were not always noble, that at least some of them did very bad things. The book went back and forth here, sometimes it was condemned what was going on, at other times it seems the authors were pleading for some understanding and compassion nevertheless.

To me, this book was a big disappointment. It felt like bad fan fiction to me and I hope that the next book will return to the high standard I enjoyed until now.

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