Mass Effect: Revelation

This is garbage, of course. But what the hell, it's a video game prequel. It's interesting to get the back story, I guess, but since half the book is introducing people to this hugely complex world - you know, like the hour or two you spend roaming the Citadel the first time through the game? - the majority of the actual background data would have been better communicated in a five minute cut scene.

Haiku Review: I think I wrote this Story in the seventh grade. It stunk back then, too.......more

It's quite easy to like this book if you approach it with the correct attitude. Yes, it is based on a video game franchise, and the downside is that readers will not really know how the story unfolds from here unless they play the game. It's a pity that the story of the first Mass Effect game has no......more

I am a fairly large fan of the Mass Effect game, but I have to admit that I certainly wasn't expecting Tolstoy (or insert any other good novelist here) when I got my hands on this book. It sold itself on a few things, that it was a prequel to the game. It would tell us how Saren came to hate humans......more

If I had to give my review a title, it would be "WHAT HAPPENED?!" Yes, in capslock. I really loved the first part of the book, the introduction of the various races, of the universe in general, of the characters, especially of Grissom and Anderson, the attack on Sidon and the attempted rescue mission......more

Mass Effect: Revelations is a truly phenomenal science fiction text. From the very first page you are hooked by this book's compelling and suspenseful nature. Mass Effect: Revelations follows the path of Lieutenant Anderson, an alliance space officer who is investigating the destruction of a human......more