SweetJeeba wrote...
I just read this book and was embarrassed, if you've read a lot of books that were worse then I truly feel for you.
By the end of the book you hope everyone dies. The last two chapters were especially gut wrenching for all the wrong reasons. I couldn't believe I was reading about the same characters.
I would like someone to explain to me how there was any resolution to this book? Are we allowed to post spoilers because it feels like this book was written knowing full well non of the main character's objectives could be resolved.
Also it's rediculouse for anyone to think Gillian was written was the same individual. She is way to competent in social situations to be autistic, and the entire book writes her as someone who has trouble controlling their emotions. High functioning autistics typically struggle with reading social cues and facial communication and can lack the how to react. Gillian is just written as someone who has temper tantrums.
This is bad, if there were just continuity issues this book would have been rated higher
Welcome to the club my friend. I consider myself a die-hard Mass Effect fan, yet personally I feel that I could have looked the other way and forgive the vast majority of lore errors, big and small (such as humans on Khar'Shan or the baffling descriptions of Omega and the like) yet the poor writing and the clear disrespect of the source material was simply insulting to us fans. Gillian and Nick 18? Gillian having an object her father gave her that by all rights she should never have possessed, Gillian's autism going bye-bye, Hendel suddenly becoming hetersexual , Kai Leng stealing cereal? Its all absurd.
Coupled with the fact that it was written with the same blood-churning intensity of an average grocey shopping list, it did next to nothing to stimulate my brain into pondering the plot, the characters, or the overall direction the book was heading towards effort to combat the Reapers. After all, isn't that the true underlying purpose of the book? It even said so on the back, Gillian was going to put Anderson's and Kahlee's own machinations in peril with her own lust for what seemed to me as an empty vengence. Not that anything even remotely similar happened. But it makes little point, I suppose.
As far as I and no doubt the majority of the Mass Effect fanbase is concerned, this book doesn't exist and unless Bioware makes some drastically radical changes to the upcoming edit, it won't ever exist in the Mass Effect universe that we've come to love. I can forgive this greasy stain on an otherwise flawless space epic, though it will take time. Getting my hands on Mass Effect 3 should do it. Two minutes of playing that and I'll probably forget the immediete members of my family, let alone some crap attempt to milk Mass Effect by some hack writer that clearly had his head lodged up his ass the entire process of writing. Just saying yo. Peace it.
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