≡ [PDF] Free Firefly Big Damn Hero James Lovegrove Nancy Holder Books

Firefly Big Damn Hero James Lovegrove Nancy Holder Books

Download As PDF : Firefly Big Damn Hero James Lovegrove Nancy Holder Books

Firefly Big Damn Hero James Lovegrove Nancy Holder Books

I am a big Firefly fan but this book is just poorly written. It's like it was penned by an eighth grader.
Examples:

The author constantly uses 'which' add-ons at the end of sentences. 'Mal went down the alley, which was the same one they had ducked down before' instead of 'Mal went down the same alley they had used before.' The author does this again and again.

The use of the same word in a sentence like, 'Jayne pulled out his gun and realized he had only one bullet left in his gun.' instead of replacing one 'gun' with 'weapon.'

The above examples may not be exact lines in the book but they are indicative of the writing style.

Also the dialogue is awful. Everyone explains their motives and thought processes out loud like they are a villain in the 1960's Batman show. Read a line, close your eyes and picture the characters saying this in the show, and you will laugh.

Again I am a huge Firefly fan but the crew of Serenity deserves a better author.


Tags : Amazon.com: Firefly - Big Damn Hero (9781785658266): James Lovegrove, Nancy Holder: Books,James Lovegrove, Nancy Holder,Firefly - Big Damn Hero,Titan Books,1785658263,Imaginary wars and battles,Science fiction,Space warfare,FICTION Media Tie-In,FICTION Science Fiction Action & Adventure,FICTION Science Fiction Space Opera,Fiction,Fiction-Science Fiction,FictionScience Fiction - Action & Adventure,FictionScience Fiction - Space Opera,GENERAL,General Adult,Monograph Series, 1st,MovieTV Tie-In,SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY,United States,terraformed;space western;companion;The Verse;Reaver;Battle of Serenity Valley;Browncoats;Independents;Alliance;Firefly class;Serenity;Hands of Blue;Adelai Niska;Saffron;Badger;Shepherd Book;Derrial Book;River Tam;Wash;Kaywinnet Lee Frye;Simon Tam;Kaylee Frye;Jayne Cobb;Inara Serra;Hoban Washburne;Zoe Alleyne Washburne;Malcolm Reynolds;Ron Glass;Summer Glau;Sean Maher;Jewel Staite;Adam Baldwin;Morena Baccarin;Alan Tudyk;Gina Torres;Nathan Fillion;Tim Minear;Mutant Enemy Productions;Joss Whedon,terraformed; space western; companion; The Verse; Reaver; Battle of Serenity Valley; Browncoats; Independents; Alliance; Firefly class; Serenity; Hands of Blue; Adelai Niska; Saffron; Badger; Shepherd Book; Derrial Book; River Tam; Wash; Kaywinnet Lee Frye; Simon Tam; Kaylee Frye; Jayne Cobb; Inara Serra; Hoban Washburne; Zoe Alleyne Washburne; Malcolm Reynolds; Ron Glass; Summer Glau; Sean Maher; Jewel Staite; Adam Baldwin; Morena Baccarin; Alan Tudyk; Gina Torres; Nathan Fillion; Tim Minear; Mutant Enemy Productions; Joss Whedon

Firefly Big Damn Hero James Lovegrove Nancy Holder Books Reviews

Meh.

If you're the author, skip this review, you don't need to hear this.

Rag tag bunch of misfits on a space ship is my jam. Firefly is the quintessential example of this so when I hear they're doing a series of Firefly novels I'm standing in line already.

Man am I disappointed. The first half moves too slow and feels like just a collection of fan service references to things from the show. I won't list them for sake of spoilers but when I started noticing those piling up was when I started to get worried.

The second half of the novel was an improvement. Quicker pace, more original plot, characters growing and stepping outside their normal rut.

Wasn't too satisfied with the motives of the primary antagonist.

Overall I think the novel suffers the worst fate of all; it's ultimately forgettable.
Nice to be back in the 'verse, but I rarely heard Mal's distinctive voice in his dialog and there was a bit too much rehash of events from the series. It was obviously for the newbies, but slowed the action and did nothing to move the story. Most favorite characters were pretty thin without the spice the series had. Kaylee whines, inara's a blank, Jayne's got a nice contribution, except for the cliche Dirty Harry line, and Book is a bit more interesting. However, ya take the 'verse where ya can find it.... it's better than nothing.
As another reviewer stated, the story is basically a two part TV episode. I would have given the story 5 stars if it were not for some obvious political and social justice warrior commentary included by the authors that didn't even fit with the Verse. And then there is an out of character slightly disgusting sexual fantasy moment with Wash and Zoe. Since the book has just been released, I will not go into much further detail to avoid spoiling the plot. I think the authors should have watched the episodes and read the comics that come after this is in the timeline a few times to get the Verse fresh in their minds. Perhaps in the future we'll be lucky and get something with Tim Minear's input.
I am a patient miser who almost never buys books new, preferring to wait until used copies hit the market. But when I learned that there was a Firefly novel scheduled for release, I preordered and didn't blink. Set during the run of the show, Big Damn Hero delivers as close as we'll get to another episode of the shiniest show that ever ran. At its opening, Mal Reynolds and the good ship Serenity are looking for work, trying to recover their reputation after the Niska disaster, and necessity compels them to take a questionable payload of explosives from the even-more questionable person of Badger. Mal's been asked to see a local businessman about a smaller delivery he can handle on the way, but something goes awry emerging from an epic bar fight, Zoe and Jayne quickly realized the captain's been kidnapped. With destabilizing explosives in the hold, and Mal in the hands of parties unknown, Zoe and the whole Serenity gang have to work double time to figure out what's gone awry before matters get worse.

Big Damn Hero offers a fast-moving plot (a two-day story) and all the flavor of the show that Browncoats should enjoy; Lovegrove has a good ear for the show's peculiar mix of frontier drawls peppered with Chinese expressions, and none of the characters from the ship are overlooked in contributing to the resolution it's very much an all-hands on deck kind of story, bringing even Book and Inara into the thick of things. The show's humor runs throughout, from Mal's verbal harrying of his captors, to Zoe and Wash's playful banter and Jayne's mix of wiles and tactlessness. River is...well, River, playing a flute to calm the explosives down and providing just the right amount of insight to get the team out of tight corners. There are plenty, too; with so many members of the crew separated in the search for answers. Zoe, never a weak character -- never -- is in fine form hre, hobbling round town on a fractured leg, keeping the crew focused despite River's episodes and Jayne's fits and Kaylee's near panic at the idea of leaving the captain behind. The only fly in the ointment is the questionable backstory about the Alliance and the Independents, as the settling of this system is portrayed simplistically with rich people buying the core planets and leaving the poor people to the frontier planets, and then there being some confusion about the independents "seceding" from the Union...which they were not part of to begin with. That's relatively minor, though, perhaps on the scale of arguing about Klingon head makeup.

Big Damn Hero will find an audience, I think, not just because it's a new story in a beloved franchise, but because it also adds to that Firefly universe by fleshing out Mal's past and the people he loved and fought by. I enjoyed it thoroughly and hope this series keeps flying.
As others who have given less than satisfactory reviews of this book, I am a big Firefly/Serenity fan. I was excited for this book and have been hoping for a long time that a novelization would happen.

I think I got my hopes up way too high.

It reads like a fan fiction. The story feels like an amalgamation of other stories we've already watched mixed in with unnecessary easter eggs obviously designed to massage our nostalgia glands. At times I got the sense that the author might not know the characters at all, especially in dialogue. The the thought, "There's no way Joss Whedon read this and approved it." has crossed my mind quite a few times.

At the time of this review I'm about 75% through and I'm not excited to finish it. I'm just going to finish it so I can say I did. Seeing that the same author is doing the second book, I've lost hope that he will fix this; and yet, I'll still read it.
I am a big Firefly fan but this book is just poorly written. It's like it was penned by an eighth grader.
Examples

The author constantly uses 'which' add-ons at the end of sentences. 'Mal went down the alley, which was the same one they had ducked down before' instead of 'Mal went down the same alley they had used before.' The author does this again and again.

The use of the same word in a sentence like, 'Jayne pulled out his gun and realized he had only one bullet left in his gun.' instead of replacing one 'gun' with 'weapon.'

The above examples may not be exact lines in the book but they are indicative of the writing style.

Also the dialogue is awful. Everyone explains their motives and thought processes out loud like they are a villain in the 1960's Batman show. Read a line, close your eyes and picture the characters saying this in the show, and you will laugh.

Again I am a huge Firefly fan but the crew of Serenity deserves a better author.