Collision: Book Four in the Secret World Chronicle, by Mercedes Lackey, Veronica Giguere, Cody Martin, Dennis Lee
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From New York Times best-seller and science fiction and fantasy mistress of adventure Mercedes Lackey, Book #4 in the pulse-pounding SECRET WORLD saga of modern-day humans with superpowers. The metaheroes deal with the consequences of their superpowers, but the evil Thulian threat lies in wait.Destroying the Thulian North American Headquarters has not made life easier for ECHO, or the world. The Thulians continue their attacks, first in unpredictable incursions, then with another all-out assault on ECHO, orchestrated against ECHO headquarters across the world.Dominic Verdigris has not given up on his effort to obtain The Seraphym for himself, in order to use her to avert his own fate at the hands of the Thulians. Nor have the heroes of ECHO and the CCCP found life anything but harder.Belladonna's duties have increased a thousand-fold, and now she has responsibility for the lives of every metahuman in ECHO on her conscience. Obviously using the intelligence gathered from the raid on the North American Thulian base to find the main Headquarters is of paramount importance--but once it is found, can she manage to convince the armies of the world to follow ECHO into an all-out attack?Then Red Saviour risks everything on a risky gambit of her own: send her "wolves" of the CCCP to find the Thulian Headquarters, despite the dangers, and despite the consequences of blowing everything on this hazardous gambit that could very well end, not in victory, but with the world in flames.About World Divided, Book 2 in the Secret World Chronicle:"[C]omes together seamlessly. . .an awesome and lightning-paced story: read it on a day when you will not have to put it down."–San Francisco Book ReviewAbout Mercedes Lackey:"With [Mercedes Lackey], suspense never lags..." –KliattThe Secret World ChronicleInvasionWorld DividedRevolutionCollision
Collision: Book Four in the Secret World Chronicle, by Mercedes Lackey, Veronica Giguere, Cody Martin, Dennis Lee - Amazon Sales Rank: #405981 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-29
- Released on: 2015-09-29
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.75" h x 1.30" w x 4.13" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 832 pages
Collision: Book Four in the Secret World Chronicle, by Mercedes Lackey, Veronica Giguere, Cody Martin, Dennis Lee About the Author Mercedes Lackey is the New York Times best-selling author of the Bardic Voices series and the Serrated Edge series (both Baen), the Heralds of Valdemar series, and many more. Among her popular Baen titles are The Fire Rose, The Lark and the Wren, and also The Shadow of the Lion and Burdens of the Dead with Eric Flint and Dave Freer. She lives in Oklahoma. Cody Martin is an avid gamer. He spends his extra time chained to a computer, writing. Originally from Scottsdale, Arizona, he currently resides in Florida. Dennis Lee was born in Seoul, Korea and grew up in Canada. He has a degree in pharmacology and is a cell biologist when not writing. Veronica Giguere started off as the voice artist for the Secret World Chronicle podcasts then quickly proved her writing chops and was taken on as a series coauthor. Veronica remains active as a voice talent. An educator with a background in mathematics and ocean engineering, she has lent her voice to various research and campus promotional endeavors. She makes her home in Florida.
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70 of 74 people found the following review helpful. Ruined: A Novel By E. M. I admit it, despite the fact that I didn't like books 3 and 4, I gave in and bought this book. I'd been dying for some form of closure, some resolution to the plot that had actually caught my attention in book 1. Unfortunately, it once again pains me to say that Lackey rewarded my impatience with a book that was incomplete and cribbed content from earlier works in the series(again).Yet again, pieces of the previous books make up significant portions of the book. The majority of the book had no plot. This was a series of events strung together by Mags complaints and disappointments. Mags returns from his trials in Karse, and his return is marked by the return of his mine accent. Nikolas is fairly non-existent in this book as are most of the other characters from books 2-4. For the first time, we lose out on Kirball, in part because the story itself mostly doesn't occur at the Collegium. Be aware that most of the pages discuss journeying over everything else. Think "on the road again" by willie nelson.During this journey, there are a few conflicts that the reader will find amusing. These are typical conflicts of Heralds on Circuit, who meet with hard headed folks on the outskirts of Valdemar (like Cole Pieters). It is also a nice change to see how Amily functions with a healed leg, and how our newlyweds(Bear and Lena) function without the cloud of gloom caused by their families. It gives the journey a lighthearted feeling which in turn offsets the brooding tone of the actual plot.The real meat of the story starts late, in about the 200s. It's true, we finally(Finally!) get a resolution with regards to Mags' past. Yes, you read that right, there a resolution! Hurrah! This comes in the form of a villain, that readers either saw coming or will get blindsided by. No matter the case, this villain will unlock some of the details readers have been waiting for from day one. The villain is a mildly interesting character, who is a bit one-dimensional, but who helps us get to know more about the country Mags is supposed to be from.Now for the bitter disappointment: the resolution is halfhearted at best and vague at worst. We learn less about Mags' personal history than expected. And what we do learn is utterly predictable.My vote is don't bother buying this book, at least not in hardcover. The resolution, like the storyline, is so underwhelming that it is about as satisfying as a cold, soggy, half-eaten cheeseburger.Though I doubt she'll notice (or care- especially as I may come off a bit mean in this review and for that I apologize, I don't like to think I'm hurting feelings), Lackey has officially lost this reader. Even if she were to read this review, my voice is one among thousands of fans. I may own all of her books, but in the end-run of things I'm just one lost dollar sign. While I will continue to treasure the books I have, it's also strange to say I won't have any Valdemar books I'll look forward to in the future.!!!!SPOILER ALERT!!!!! (other nitpicks)A big nitpick from me is the inconsistencies not only created by the book, but that are also in the book itself. There are big discrepancies in the characters between books. But what really gets me is that the clan pledged not to harm the Royals and the Heralds, and Lackey makes a point of emphasizing that the clan will hold to this pledge when discussing the clan's threat to hurt villages instead, and yet, they shoot down Jakyr. What the heck?Part of the reason the news about Mags' past is so predictable is that Lackey herself predicted it in a prior book, via the Archivist("One of the oldest stories there is, of course...." That prediction destroys interest in the plot point.The existence of the Lita-Jakyr subplot was entertaining, but pointless. It was clearly created to fill the pages mending their relationship because there was nothing left to discuss with regards to our main hero.One intriguing thought I've had as result of this book, however, is that perhaps Mag's kindred (as a consequence of the imminent infighting between the castes of the clan) later become the Tedrels. So I guess I can say that at least this book gave me something to chew on.Edited to Add:Heads up to Lackey fans.Recently, Misty posted on her Facebook page that she is working on a Trilogy that involves Mags. She refers to it as the Herald-Spy Trilogy.
58 of 62 people found the following review helpful. Wished she was a little braver and took more risks By Amazon Customer I've been a fan of Mercedes Lackey since I've been a teenager, and I've all of the books set in the Velgarth world. And maybe that's part of the problem, a lot of the things in this book and in this series has been "done before", and the things that I thought were interesting ideas were glossed over and barely given any notice.::Spoiler Alert::I haven't read all of her books very recently so I might get somethings mixed up but here are some things that stuck in my mind when I was reading this book:Things I didn't like:1. "Stuck in/snowed in a blizzard while roughing it, while comfortably situated in a "structure/cave". Didn't we see this in "Storm Breaking"? Kinda hard to take it seriously when the other story was a cataclysmic storm reflecting back from thousands of years ago. Also, same thing sort of happens in "Arrows Flight", where protagonists are snowed in a waystation and gifts go rogue or something.2. "In a cave, being attacked by " Also done (in my opinion better) in "Silver Gryphon", at least those odds seemed impossible. This? Not so much. We have one top-tier assassin, his newly minted assassin-Herald cousin via Mindspeech skill transfer, versus a bunch of second-tier assassins that come in waves, like some level on a video game.3. Not even going to touch the whole Kirball versus Hurlee point ("Exile's Valor"). I'm okay with one Quidditch knockoff serving to train young people in the arts of war disguised as sport to serve the plot, but again, its practically the same thing for the same reason for the same plot device.3. "Complete mind-sharing because we're getting to the last part of the book and Mags now needs to be a skilled assassin for the book to finish" Oh really? I suppose Mags could learn Kung-Fu the same way? Why spend all that time in the Collegium then?4. "Let's have some people gripe about the new way of teaching Trainees and establish for several books that way is better, then decide to do it the old fashioned way at the very end of the series" Then why write the series in the first place?5. "Let's spend most of the book talking about driving caravan horses, apples and pocket pies, then *boom* 'Hi my name is Bey your more attractive, charming, lethal and sexy cousin and I'm here to finish the book for you." Mmm....yea.....really?6. Do I really need to know that Mags "pleasures himself"? If this was a series about "coming of age" (which a lot of the series Mercedes writes), she has handled it a lot more deftly in the past. The way it was written and the whole "let's go find a part of the cave where we can go lose our virginities without making too much noise" was pretty cringe-worthy. And for some reason the part of Mags "growing up" isn't emphasized much, so for some reason I still see Mags as very small and young even though by the end of the books he's supposed to be older. Again, very awkward...."New" things I would have liked to see developed a lot further:1. The abandoned vale. That's an interesting idea, would have liked to really see that developed further.2. "Cutting off a village", parts of Valdemar drifting away from Crown control, Heralds not being viewed in a fairy-tale positive light within the country. That's new, and interesting, but got barely introduced before it was resolved way too quickly.3. Bey. I would have really enjoyed reading about Bey's journey, and from Bey's perspective. Its a totally different kind of character than she normally writes, from a type of country/culture that hasn't really been fleshed out in Velgarth before. I would have really enjoyed the book more if she had written two parallel storylines like she did for the Mage Winds trilogy, and having them meet up somewhere in the middle of the series even. Instead we're given hastily written exposition way late in the book framed as "mind-sharing" about the culture and the country so I had a hard time really caring. Its exactly the same feeling as reading the summary of the entire "Fellowship of the Ring" as a paragraph in "The Silmarillion", it does its job but a fleshed out story of Bey as the "anti-Herald" would have been really interesting. The frustrating part of it is that I know she has written plots like this before, and that she's good at fleshing out cultures (Hardorn, Eastern Empire, Karse), and it feels like for this book she just didn't bother. Instead of an interesting culture and country, we get more about "finding latrines in a cave".So yea, I thought there were some interesting and new ideas in the book, and in the series as a whole, but it felt like there was a lack of focus on a) the character arc b) plot development c) development of the world, and an overemphasis on minutiae that didn't serve the story at all.
44 of 49 people found the following review helpful. Rince, repeat By Tori It occurs to me that the past couple of books in this series have all had the same general plot. Discarding book 1, books 2-5 have had a large event at the Collegium that ultimately had no bearing whatsoever on the story, followed by overall life/shenanigans of Mags and then a very quick buildup and disappointing resolution with some form of villain who decides to actually show up for the final quarter of the book. I do love Lackey's gift with words and descriptions but recently it just feels like she's writing on autopilot.This is a very minor nitpick but it irritated me the whole book. In Book 1, "[Herald Jakyr] cannot cook. In fact, he has been known to ruin boiling water." And yet suddenly, "...I make a very, very good tripe and onions." I'm not saying everything must be absolutely perfect, but when you make a very broad statement like that, I'd like some consistency and not have him suddenly turn into a gourmet.Long story short, if you enjoyed the previous four books, you'll probably like this. If you want some vague form of closure, well, it's kind of there. If you have a choice though, I'd wait for it to come out at your library.
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