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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780553589641
ISBN number: 0553589644
Label: Bantam
Manufacturer: Bantam
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 560
Printing Date: November 27, 2007
Publishing house: Bantam
Release Date: November 27, 2007
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In this steamy, suspenseful new novel from RITA Award–winning author Linnea Sinclair, a dangerously sexy space commander and an irresistibly earthy Florida police detective pair up to save the civilized galaxy . . . but can they save themselves from each other?
Bahia Vista homicide detective Theo Petrakos thought he’d seen it all. Then a mummified corpse and a room full of futuristic hardware sends Guardian Force commander Jorie Mikkalah into his life. Before the night’s through, he’s become her unofficial partner—and official prisoner—in a race to save the earth. And that’s only the start of his troubles.
Jorie’s mission is to stop a deadly infestation of biomechanical organisms from using Earth as its breeding ground. If she succeeds, she could save a world and win a captaincy. But she’ll need Theo’s help, even if their unlikely partnership does threaten to set off an intergalactic incident.
Because if she fails, she’ll lose not just a planet and a promotion, but a man who’s become far more important to her than she cares to admit.
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The Away Team beams down from the Enterprise into an alley on 21st century earth hunting and alien menace-- oh, wait a minute, I mean Commander Jorie Mikkalah and her hunter team PMATs into an alley on 21st century earth searching for a menace that is alien to Earth but not to her people. Taken for what it is-- a not too demanding science fiction adventure with some action and some romance, this book is well worth a look.
It's not as engaging as Games of Command (Bantam Spectra Book), but better than a couple of her earlier books that sagged in the middle. This one manages to clip right along.
I really wish that she would vary her characters a bit more though. The secondary characters in this book are almost better delineated than the leads.
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I love Linnea Sinclair's mix of SF action/adventure and a bit of romance, but this is my least favorite of hers, so far (her fantasy, WINTERTIDE, was worse, but I'm only counting her SF, here). It's not bad; very readable, actually, but the characters and situation just never gelled as strongly as her other tales.
Jorie is a commander in the Guardians, a military force that hunts Zombies--a creation of the Interplanetary Concord that has gone out of control, breeding colonies guided by Prime and wreaking havoc on various planet they spread to. Jorie find herself leading a covert team on a nil-tech planet where they are forbidden to disclose their existence because this has caused problems (wars and red-tape and obstruction) in the past. How they are supposed to deal with these monstrous creatures who can kill thousands and are some 15' tall, without something like the Men In Black's amnesia-flash, isn't quite explained.
Bahia Vista, Florida, Homicide Detective Sergeant Theo Patrakos is called to the scene of a mummified corpse--unknown to him, it's one of the Guardian operatives who has been killed by a Zombie. He finds himself in charge of the strange computer they operative had, something Jorie needs to secure for the information it contains about the Zombies. It also draws the Zombies to it (as does other Guardian tech, such as their transporter-beams), so when a Zombie suddenly appears, Patrakos is there to help kill it, along with Jorie, and she's forced to beam him up with her, since he's seen too much and needs to be resettled to a paradise-like world--something Petrakos isn't in favor of. He convinced the Guardians that he can act in the place of their dead operative--help the team fit in with earth ways so they don't stick out while they hunt Zombies--so he can return to the Earth for a brief time before being transported away... And determined to find a way to escape after the threat to his world by the Zombies is solved.
Petrakos and Jorie getting together while trying to anticipate Zombie attacks and countering even more opposition should have been more interesting than it was for me. I never got a good grasp on their characters. Petrakos is just your typical guy who wants to do his duty and happens to have Greek ancestry so words and a bit of the culture are dropped now and then. Jorie and her folk are human and speak a variant of English, which is never quite explained, although the similarity is remarked upon and perhaps there was some connection--but how that could be is beyond me, since English is such a melange of Earth-centric languages... Anyway, Jorie is fairly straight-forward herself, just a girl who wants to do her duty and kill Zombies. Neither were all that interesting. Their relationship was therefore not so interesting, either, although I did feel sympathy for them and hoped they'd get together.
The plot wasn't all that interesting, either. Or that suspenseful. Several elements could have been interesting--such as the implant put into Patrakos to ensure his behavior when they return to Earth... But it didn't pan out. Other threats seemed to come and go, as well. And the resolution was a bit improbable.
I was more disappointed than anything, since I enjoyed ACCIDENTAL GODDESS and GAMES OF COMMAND so much. And I had hoped this book would help me recover my confidence in Sinclair after reading WINTERTIDE, which was a fairly mediocre fantasy and severely disappointing. Sadly, I can't say it has helped. But I think most will find this book worth reading if they like Sinclair's other books.
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"Down Home Zombie Blues" had great characters, believable technology, and humour that kept me reading well into the night. Jorie is smart, honorable, and cares more about people than about following the rules. Theo is strong, capable, and surprisingly accepting when his ordinary city turns into an alien battleground. The author draws you into her universe with a fantastic balance between characters, relationships, and world-building.
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A futuristic female warrior lands in present-day Florida to fight evil aliens ("zombies"). She is under orders to stay discrete, as anyone who sees her & her group must be moved to another planet forever (so they can't tell anyone, I suppose). So, she walks around in weird looking clothing, toting giant guns, steals a car, drives randomly through traffic ignoring stoplights and lanes, and despite numerous accidents arrives at her destination without a string of police cars on her tail. There, she kidnaps a detective who saw her and convinces him to help her. This is all supposed to be funny, but for me it all just fall flat. I really expect futuristic warriors to be a lot more competant. The leading lady spends an awful lot of time bragging, for someone too stupid to spend 2 minutes standing on a street corner figuring out traffic rules.
I am glad that some readers greatly enjoyed this book, but it isn't up to Sinclair's usual standards -- come on, keep your finger off of the "useless" button long enough to admit you liked An Accidental Goddess (Bantam Spectra) better. If you're new to Sinclair, start with one of her other books.
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What a strange book. The aliens are 1) completely human, even though there is no suggestion of actual common ancestry with us, and 2) one of their main languages (Vekran) just happens to be a slightly altered English, with again, no indication that Vekran or English somehow derived from the other. This is Star Trek cheapness at it's very worst, and totally unjustified in a supposedly serious tale of alien invasion, etc. (Maybe were meant to laugh? I suppose it's possible.) That starting premise is so silly that it utterly cheapens and undermines everything else science-fictional that happens in the book. Which involves an invasion by zombies (bioengineering gone bad, a perfectly respectable premise in itself), and an intergalactic Romance, about which I have nothing to say except that I prefer my romantic tensions a bit subtle.
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