I've been meaning to send in a picture - I even have an idea for it worked out - but I just haven't had time, and the one chance this week I had I forgot to take the book with me lol.
Anyway, despite not having much time to even read the thing, I managed to get through a few more stories.
I've honestly never been the greatest fan of Perry Sr.'s writing style (I mentioned it when reviewing his early
Aliens novels) and not much has changed. His story probably also would've been improved if I'd actually read
Turnabout - my bad! Was enjoyable enough though. However, one thing that did genuinely bug me in this one was how the Predators in it suddenly lost the ability to see in infra red - a ghillie suit is just a set of overalls covered in bits of ragged cloth. Sure, it helps you hide from a human eye, but it does nothing to mask your body heat, and you'd be just as plainly visible to a Predator as if you were naked. So it made no sense that the Predators in the story repeatedly failed to see Sloane, at one point even when he was lying directly in front of them. I dunno, maybe I missed something not having not read
Turnabout and they're actually in the future where ghillie suits are more hi-tech.
May Blood Pave My Way Home was neat, I really liked the idea of Predators fighting alongside native American Indians. The only issue I took was that the one-on-one combat scenes reminded me a little too much of Robert Rodriguez's God-awful
Predators script - it was nothing overt, but once I got the idea in my head, I just couldn't get it out
I thought the hurricane Katrina setting in
Storm Blood was awesome. Not at all something I would've picked but it was a great concept. To be honest, I would've liked to see that setting play even more of a role in the story, rather than just being the backdrop, but it was still a cool choice nonetheless. I liked the way the story was written, with the documentary-style timestamps. The twist ending was bit on-the-nose but it did at least explain the Predator's (and the... can't remember its name, dog) actions throughout the tale. Only thing that confused me was whether the dog-beast was supposed to have been on Earth all along, or was something the Predator brought with it to hunt. The latter seems a bit like too much effort, but if it was the former you'd think someone would've noticed it (and I don't mean a team of loopy internet documentary makers) in this day and age.
