Quote from: Xiggz456 on Jun 19, 2020, 01:10:13 PMI think I'd rate them best to worse:
1. Criminal Enterprise
2. DNA War
3. No Exit
4. Cauldron
5. Original Sin
6. Steel Egg
Fair. For me:
Criminal Enterprise is way out in front, and the only one that was consistently good.
I'd probably put
No Exit second, because even with the terrible finale, 90% of it was an excellent read.
Third would be
Original Sin, because while it was never anything more than thoroughly average and by-the-numbers, it at least didn't fall off a cliff like most of the others.
I struggle to separate
DNA War and
Cauldron.
Cauldron had the better moments, but a greater percentage of the book was crap;
DNA War was more consistently good but had far worse instances of bizarre wtf bullshit in it.
The less said about
Steel Egg the better. f**k that book.
Overall this run was poor. Almost without exception the Bantam and Titan books are much better; only
Criminal Enterprise sits comfortably alongside them.
Steel Egg, meanwhile, is far and away the worst
Alien novel I've read.
Quote from: The Cruentus on Jun 19, 2020, 01:16:03 PMSpoiler
His name is not Mondo is it?
Touché.
Quote from: SM on Jun 19, 2020, 11:51:07 PMI think the switch from detective story to when they actually engage the Aliens should've come faster in No Exit.
To be honest, the fact there
weren't Aliens in it for so long was one of this things I appreciated. It made it feel different.
It's just a shame that once they eventually appear in numbers it falls apart.