The Mystery of Ireta: Dinosaur Planet & Dinosaur Planet Survivors
Posted by admin in Kindle Saturday, 1 May 2010 11:53 5 Comments
Product Description
The crew of shipbred technicians sent to the planet Ireta were prepared for a routine mission to catalog flora and fauna and search for new energy sources. Kai and his beautiful coleader Varian, the best xenob-vet in the business, followed all the standard procedures, but the result of their investigations was totally unexpected.
When their rescue ship mysteriously disappears, they suddenly find themselves surrounded by giant swamp creatures, deadly predator… More >>
The Mystery of Ireta: Dinosaur Planet & Dinosaur Planet Survivors
Anne McCaffrey is one of my favorite authors, but even that can’t change the fact that I was greatly disappointed by this book.
If you’ve read the ‘Freedom’ series, or any of the chronologically first ‘Pern’ series, then you’ve read ‘Ireta.’ It’s another rehash of the same old storyline- Beautiful, physically perfect people trapped on an alien planet. How will they ever survive? Probably in the same way all the characters in her previous books survived.
I was able to predict the ending with 100% accuracy from the first ten pages of the book, and though the last few chapters did take a turn for the better, it hardly made the previous several hundred pages worth all the time I devoted to them.
One never really comes to care about the characters- They aren’t presented in an endearing way, otherwise, Ireta would have been a much better book to read.
Rating: 2 / 5
This is an expanded look at one episode in the Planet Pirates novel and is a bit much if one has read the other.
Rating: 2 / 5
I had previously read both of these titles as individual books; however having them combined into one is nice. I really enjoyed this series which leads into the Planet Pirates, great writer, with a good way of weaving you into the story and keeping your attention.
Rating: 5 / 5
This story may take place in the same universe as PERN but is as unaware of it as they would be of it. It may also be the future or alternate universe of Damia and the FT&T crowd, who knows if technology ever overtook ESP?
Primarily this is a space/planetary adventure complete with aliens and social commentary much like the original Star Trek (of which I am also a fan). If I tell you the plot I’ve said too much so trust this quick read to entertain and delight and it’s a good read aloud story for the 7-13 crowd and a secret pleasure for the adults too.
Rating: 5 / 5
i thoroughly enjoyed the book. there were a few oh-hums but even they had important info to read. this is a good book to read for any dinosaur fan. got out a dinosaur dictionary to look up the animals that exist on the planet and even that was interesting to do. then in the second book is TOR a rock animal who flies, facinating and the nasty heavy-worlders from first book. you wonder if what the book tells you on how the dinosaurs got there could be true. read the book and enjoy.
Rating: 4 / 5