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Claws that Catch (Looking Glass, Book 4)
by John Ringo, Travis S. Taylor
from Baen

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• A Bit of Ringo's Mojo Returning
  This is number four in this series. For some time Mr. Ringo's quality of work has been waning. The criticism of his "There will be Dragons" series made him outright quit the series. The last two books in this series shows evidence of his old self coming back again. Thanks to the use some of the character templates that brought him to the forefront of military sci-fi. Oops I meant Science Fiction. This story advances the series along slightly leaving subtle clues to what's coming next. Its mostly just short... more info

• What Happened to Vorpal Blade?
  I truly have enjoyed the series so far. That is, until I hit this book.
  In the past two books (Vorpal Blade and Manxome Foe) the focus of the characters have shifted from Dr. William Weaver (Into the Looking Glass) to a character not even mentioned in the first book, with the new character Eric "Two Guns" Bergstresser taking over as the star. While this in itself wouldn't normally bother me, the fact that Dr. Weaver becomes a cardboard caricature of what made him so cool in book 1 really gets me... more info

• Should have been better. Too little action, very slow
  This is probably the shortest book in the series, and as hardcover's go, very short. Too little time spent on the primary characters, too much time spent on new characters. None of the engaging battles we're used to, just a couple that seemed more like poorly thought out fillers. The primary complaints with the first book: too much time on politics and trying to force-feed us math and physics. Both of those are back with a vengeance.
  The books are now following a predictable plot line. Ship explores... more info

• The Vorpal Blade Rises Up One More Time
  The fourth book in the "Looking Glass" series, "Claws that Catch" continues the story of the spaceship Vorpal Blade (well, Vorpal Blade 2, because the first was so damaged in the previous book, "Manxome Foe," that it had to be replaced) and its crew. The bad news about this book is that it is not a stand-alone book. The good news? All the previous books are very good. The series was begun by John Ringo (the "Posleen War" series) in "Into The Looking Glass," where an experiment in quantum physics goes wrong,... more info

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