The fourth barely puts up a fight, it tries to but winds up just getting shot from behind when trying to have a showdown with the protaganist. Three of the four get sniped without putting up a fight. The Predators hardly do anything and when they do show up they feel like the weakest/dumbest bunch that ever existed. It feels like a rejected script somebody had sitting around for a Steven Seagal movie where he plays a former sniper turned park ranger squaring off against a gang of poachers and then decided to turn it into a book and pepper in Predators every once in a while to cash in on some franchise tie-in dollars. The poachers run into the Predators too and.well, I won't spoil it.įor a book with Predators in the title there's a surprising lack of Predators. We had a forest ranger in Alaska leading a civilian on a hike (for reasons I won't go into here, but it made sense.) They run afoul of poachers, bears, and, of course, Predators. The monsters are usually scarier when you don't know what they're thinking. In this one the Predators are an unknown threat, which works better to me. In the previous two Predator novels, we were in the Predator's heads, heard their conversations, knew what they were thinking, their names, etc. This had the vibe of the original Predator movie, where you don't know much about the Predators and they were more just monsters lurking in the background, like the shark in Jaws. This one is more traditional, taking place on earth in our own time period. The first two Predator novels in this series were set on Alien planets and outer space, which were settings very similar to the Aliens novels.
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