Enjoying the books, not the waiting.įirst, if your going to read it, I think your going to want to have seen the series. I purchased this book while waiting, ever waiting, for the fourth book in the Stargate Atlantis Legacy series (due to come out June 28, 2012), which I have been enjoying immensely. This isn't the first I've tried, but it is the first I'm going to review. One day, having been missing the show and not wanting to watch any of the series again for at least another year, I thought I'd try one of the books. But after watching the entire series from start to finish, SG1, SGA and SGU and the two movies, I came to really enjoy the franchise. I came late to the Stargate TV franchise, never having watched much TV when the series were on (except SGU). Stargate books, for me, is a guilty pleasure. It is not among my favorite SG books, but is well worth the read. Would I recommend this book? Yes, absolutely (provided you can ignore the bad editing). The publisher should be ashamed they let this book be released with the number of errors abounding.

I would eagerly volunteer to re-edit this book and any future books for a fraction of the cost that the editors are being paid. in this book was almost too distracting for me. The number of spelling errors, misplaced words, etc. I had to downgrade another star for the absolutely dreadful editing job done on this book. When writing this review, I knocked off 1 star for what I have written above. By far, the best-written character in the book was Vala Mal Doran, who was true to the TV character in almost every way. Daniel, while his characterization was captured well, was almost a useless character in this story, the author having given him mostly little places in which to fill in information gaps. The banter between Daniel and Jack was not exactly spot-on, and at times I almost thought to myself, 'How the heck did Jack O'Neill become a General being as ignorant as he is?' Teal'C was well-written and, thankfully, not too overwritten, as I have often seen in these novels. The characterizations, for the most part, were pretty acurate. It almost appeared as though the author was told, 'Your book needs to be this many pages, so start chopping.' As is always the case with stories like this one, the events that take place in the second half of the book are the ones that suffered for the short length of the book. I often felt that certain events in the book took longer than necessary to develop, while other events really deserved more attention. This book had excellent potential for a superb plot, but unfortunately, for me, it was just a little dry.

Being an avid fan of everything Stargate (yes, even the new SGU), I decided to give the novels a chance.

Roswell by Sonny Whitelaw