Aliens: Original Sin by michael jan friedman

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April 17,2025

Честно казано не съм сигурна колко звезди да дам на книгата. Историята бе интересна, но първата половина ми бе на моменти досадна. Разбира се осъзнавам и че по начина и написване читателите имат възможността да се привържат повече към някои от героите и тяхната история. Все пак с напредването на историята ми ставаше по-любопитно как ще се развие поредната битка на Рипли. Нещо, което бих искала да кажа за българското издание е, че слава Богу не е пълно с правописни грешки от недоглеждане или по други причини. А това често може да бъде голям проблем за мен и впечатлението ми от дадена книга. Може би бих дала 3,5 звезди, но за целта ще оставя няколко дни да минат след прочитането на книгата, за да си дам по-ясна представа за това до колко ми е харесала :)

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gust0717

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

April 17,2025

There are 2 reasons for this score. 1st is I am a huge fan of the Alien movies. 2nd is because the author tried to create a world with such deep conspiracy.
Apart from that sloppy writing with no suspense, unanswered questions and forgettable characrets.

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afuru_

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

April 17,2025

I think I expected more from it

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cecillewisiii

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

April 17,2025

I love anything from the alien universe and I was so excited to find another story with Ripley. It's good to know she's still out in the universe kicking xenomorph butt.

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-Endir-

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April 17,2025

As a sequel to the Aliens movies, this was a little disappointing. I was hoping for something... bigger, either in the action or the suspense, or at least something that would drive the story of Ripley onwards. Though it did set up for a continued story in the end, this book in itself did little for the overall story. But as a stand-alone Aliens story with the characters from the Aliens franchise, it was still enjoyable.

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Squidword

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

April 17,2025

As in most aliens-stories, you won't see the monster until it's too late. It's the same here. It's not until the very end we actually encounter the creepy aliens, and when we do... they doesn't feel like the monsters we've come to know and fear from earlier novels, games and movies.
The monsters are supposed to be of a new and more dangerous kind, but after reading the novel they feel... weaker, slower and more stupid than their predecessors.
There's a lot of questions left unanswered. Not the kind which makes you think or ponder, but the other kind. the one where you just gets irritated: Did all of those monster come from the same host? What is Loki? How could a ship, there heroes had full knowledge of manage to ambush them? How did the monsters manage to multiply and why did it only take about two hours?

One of the most interesting bits of the Aliens expanded universe is how every new author adds a bit more to the mythos. This is the exception. It's hollow, plastic and two dimensional. There's not a single character I cared about. There was nothing exciting and nothing to make me want to read on.
A pity really, and I don't even think it's the authors fault. It reeks of executive medling, but I might be wrong there.

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Calvi_

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

April 17,2025

Disclaimer: This less than glowing review has more to do with my own baggage than the writing itself.

The Good:

Some very good pacing when the you-know-what hits the fan.

I love the characters of Ripley 8 and Call so I was very happy to learn a bit more about them.

The space biodomes were a new and interesting setting.

The Meh:

I don't like the character of Johner and Alien: Resurrection is my least favorite movie in the franchise because of this character (love Ron Perlman--don't like Johner). I was hoping that this book would give Johner at least one redeeming quality (it tried in the Epilogue but it wasn't believable to me).

The Bad (a personal pet peave):

The over 15 "somehows" in this short book. I'm reading this book to find out what happened--don't "somehow" me. Your job as a writer is to explain the "somehow" somehow ;)

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