Review: Fun to read but Saxon Andrew’s books starts to feel a bit “mass produced”
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 13, 2013
As usual, it was fun to read this book by Saxon Andrew. You do of course have adjust your mind to reading a book that is clearly intended for the “young adult” reader segment. The plot is simplistic, the heroes are generally “uberbeings” of spotless morale and the bad guys are…well…bad guys. That’s probably why I like reading them. They are so refreshingly nave, and I mean that in a positive way, and far away from the, sometimes, gray and complicated everyday reality.The book, of course, follows on from the first one in the series although we jump ahead almost 200 years. Naturally the book is filled with action, mostly in the form of wiping out bad guys, both on the ground and in space. The red thread throughout the book is Jinxie, the “small being” that comes to play but of course gets entangled into the crusade of the Realm against the nasty elements that roams the galaxies. I’m sure it’s not a surprise to anyone if I reveal that there are one or two love affairs going on as well.With all that said, I think this book got the lowest rating from me that I have ever given any book from Saxon Andrew. I just get the feeling that Saxon Andrew have fallen into the trap of mass producing these books to cash in on the popularity. The book feels rushed. Sure it is intended for the younger audiences but still. It’s very much a rehashing of the same basic stuff as in the previous books. One of the first battles with Jinxie in it is pretty much: “She teleported there, she fired at that, she blew up that, she teleported there, repeat…” and it goes on like that for a couple of pages. There’s no longer much detail to any of the action. And some of the moral finger-pointing is getting a bit over the top as well.I think that Saxon Andrew should perhaps slow down a bit and make sure that quantity isn’t allowed to force quality to take a back seat.