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HELLGATE: CRY LIBERTY



HELLGATE: CRY LIBERTY
REVIEWED BY ARICIA GAVRIEL

These books get better: every one is better than the last, and that's saying a lot because THE RABELAIS ALLIANCE was great. But now, the characters are so well-known, and the backgrounding is so rich, the whole thing is "real" ... which sounds weird. What I mean is, the HELLGATE universe is so well-known, so detailed, it feels as "real" as, for example, Paris or Tokyo, or some other place I never visited, but I KNOW it actually does exist.

Also, it doesn't hurt that I really like Mick Vidal and Richar Vaurien and Mark Sherratt, as well as the Travers-and-Marin partnership. Something about Mick Vidal gets under your skin and stys with you. After Jarrat and Stone, and Travers and Marin, I like Vidal best of all MK's characters. That's just me. Someone else is going to say, Dermot Channon out of FORTUNES OF WAR, or Bill Ryan out of THE DECEIVERS, or Jack Leigh out of THE SWORDSMAN.

The plot of CRY LIBERTY and PROBE really is one single story. It's epic. CRY LIBERTY has parts that are so "real," they hurt. Like the background characters of Marty Cimino and Avi Hersch. MK's writing hits you with the reality of living in a warzone. There's things you don't think of ... yet you should have, and you hear yourself going, 'doah!'

I'm going to talk about PROBE separately,even though it's so connected into CRY LIBERTY you can hardly tell where they join.

(slightly OT: sorry to be so late posting a review: my life has been a disaster zone)

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CRY LIBERTY by Mel Keegan
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