Review: Way to many coincedences
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 25, 2012
The writing on this book wasn't bad.  Some editing and spell/word checking would have been nice in places but overall the mistakes weren't horrible.  Now besides the fact I feel the creators of the Elfquest comics might have grounds for copyright infringement, there was so many things about this book that I just felt stretched the boundaries of credulity even for a Sci-Fantasy book.  Let's start with the idea that a resource strapped Earth would spend the time, money and resources to build a giant ship to send 40k convicts into deep space.  Add to that the idea that two ships trapped in a massive space storm just happened, in all the vastness of space, happen on the same world at the same time.  Next let's talk about the idea that an alien world might develop a species nearly identical to Terran wolves.  Then finally lets look at the idea that the "good" humans just happen to land on the same continent as the "good" wolves and the bad humans (along with a handful of good humans who are quickly either murdered or enslaved) land on the continent with the "bad" wolves.  I don't mind believing a few impossible things before breakfast but all of that is a bit much.Also, the way the author keeps saying "(Insert event name here) would be like that for years to come" was more than a little annoying.  we don't need to know in the first few chapters what is going to happen years from then especially since there are sequels to the books.  Young readers might enjoy the kids and wolves theme, but I advise any serious readers to avoid this one.