Sunday, April 26, 2009

Book review: From the Ashes, not so hot as expected

FROM The Ashes is a prequel novel to Terminator Salvation, a new blockbuster movie out this summer.

The book picks up the franchise’s thread about ten years after the fall of the nuclear bombs that marked the end of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.

Bizarrely, given the time lapse, John Connor seems to have slipped down the pecking order of the human resistance to the machines trying to wipe out humanity.

He leads a district cell whose pleas for assistance receive short shrift from the resistance high command.

When Skynet, the computer controlling the machines, sets up a new operation in his neighbourhood of one time Los Angeles, it gives Connor and his band of fighters a chance to make the leaders take notice.

We plan to watch the movie first before reading this novel.

Read on

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