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Invasion of the Insectoids - Steven Gordon Book Review

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Review Summaries
"The Insectoids led the Aliance into a trap and killed most of their leaders and war space fleet. They then atacked all the home worlds and started to enslave the population. War Admiral Norman North and his fleet was not at the signing of the peace treaty when the fleet was wiped out, he and his fleet escaped and was able to assist a number of the directorate fleet in escaping. Whilst on the planet August our hero Clifford Croft and some of the agencey operatives started a resistance group where they started to fight the insectoids on the ground. All in all a very thrilling story that keeps you captivated from start to finish."
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"I find this book very exciting i could hardly put it down."
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Plot

Composition of Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 50%
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 10%




Tone of book - very upbeat
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - science fiction story
If an invasion, from Earth/human POV: - fighting overt invasion (attacking aliens)
War or Invasion Yes
Major kinds of combat: - guns - sword fights - lasers - spaceship battles
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - spy
Eccentric: Yes - eccentric - obsessed
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - an entire race
Age: - long-lived adults
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a moderate amount - a substantial amount
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence

Setting
Terrain - Water - Mountains - Forests - Planet surface, need spacesuit - Space, need spacesuit - Domed/Underground City - Asteroid
Spaceship setting: - futuristic human warship - alien spaceship - one or two man fighter/scoutship
A substantial portion of this book takes place on a non-Earth planetary body: - humans in a futuristic society - humans in a contemporary society - big overbuilt futuristic city
Planet outside solar system? Yes
Takes place in spaceship? Yes

Style
Person? - rotating 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths - explicit references to deaths
scientific jargon? (SF only) - an average amount of scientific explanation - quite a lot of techical jargon
Is this an e-book? Yes
How much dialogue? - significantly more dialog than descript - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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