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Loading... Stargate SG-1: Trial by Fire: SG1-1 (original 2006; edition 2007)by Sabine C. Bauer
 bookwormjules | May 30, 2012 | 
Not my favourite of the Stargate books, it was rather disappointing actually, so I'm glad this wasn't the first book I read, otherwise I doubt I would have picked up another Stargate book. The background story and history tie-in parts were well done and interesting enough to fit with the series, but I found character dynamics and interactions off. I found Jack to be very out of character as well as Daniel the most. And the over use of character facial expressions and quarks annoying. By this point the reader, who is an obvious fan of the series, because let's face it, unless you've watched the TV series, you won't read the books. There's too much not said in the books to just randomly pick them up. So certain character quarks etc, to not need to me shoved in your face. And in this book, I found it to be exactly that. It needed to be toned down a lot, and focus more on the plot. Not the eyebrow raise of Teal'c. Then there was the addition of the magical original character - oh it was awful. Horrible awful. Throw across the room and ask why is this character in this book awful. Honestly if she referred to another character as "duckie" one more time, I would have. Having a new character to support the book, plot and characters can be useful. Having a Mary-sue character is cringe worthy. Especially how she came into the book. If it was fanfiction I could have dealt with it, but it being a companion book to the series. No. Just no! So over all, it wasn't the book for me. Not at all what I expected to be with a series I love, but I suppose you can't love them all. Also on my book review blog Jules' Book Reviews - Trial by Fire (  ) bookwormjules | May 30, 2012 | Author Sabine C. Bauer fired up a new series of Stargate SG-1 adventures with this story about a peace mission with SG-1 caught between sworn enemies and barbaric rites. The story seems to be typical Stargate fare. The characters are sufficiently snarky to catch the flavor of the television series. I’ll keep on reading more books in the series. Published in mass-market paperback by Fandemonium Books. (  ) mmtz | May 26, 2012 | |
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The background story and history tie-in parts were well done and interesting enough to fit with the series, but I found character dynamics and interactions off. I found Jack to be very out of character as well as Daniel the most. And the over use of character facial expressions and quarks annoying. By this point the reader, who is an obvious fan of the series, because let's face it, unless you've watched the TV series, you won't read the books. There's too much not said in the books to just randomly pick them up. So certain character quarks etc, to not need to me shoved in your face. And in this book, I found it to be exactly that. It needed to be toned down a lot, and focus more on the plot. Not the eyebrow raise of Teal'c.
Then there was the addition of the magical original character - oh it was awful. Horrible awful. Throw across the room and ask why is this character in this book awful. Honestly if she referred to another character as "duckie" one more time, I would have. Having a new character to support the book, plot and characters can be useful. Having a Mary-sue character is cringe worthy. Especially how she came into the book. If it was fanfiction I could have dealt with it, but it being a companion book to the series. No. Just no!
So over all, it wasn't the book for me. Not at all what I expected to be with a series I love, but I suppose you can't love them all.
Also on my book review blog Jules' Book Reviews - Trial by Fire (