Review: Action, Action, Action...and more Action
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 15, 2012
Stop wasting time reading my review, go buy the book!Seriously, Marks' "Dominant Species" is such a nicely honed balance of action, tension and emotion that if you like the high-tech military sci-fi genre it's hard not to enjoy it.The story is nicely developed, there is enough ambiguity in who/what/where that it's hard to predict outcomes and the characters are well fleshed out so you connect with them and root for their success.Of course, the book has its flaws.  Even well rounded, the characters are archetypes so there is a degree of cliché involved in their motivations.  And some aspects of the 'more advanced than Human' technology were not satisfactorily explained to my liking.  Like, how exactly did they arise because they seemed way beyond state of the art and saying "nanotech" is an answer in the same way my daughter saying "because" is an answer...like, not at all.  And exactly why there were so many bad guys to vanquish did not quite make sense to me - given the circumstances the need for such effective and awesome killing machines seemed unlikely.But I'm scratching in the dirt to be fair and reasonable.I devoured "Dominant Species" and was disappointed when I reached the end.  It's not literary genius, but it certainly stands out in the category!