Reviews for Reunion (Pip and Flinx Adventure Series #7)

The average rating for Reunion (Pip and Flinx Adventure Series #7) based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-11-13 00:00:00 Claudia Puentes Flinx is on his self-discovery kick (as usual) and thanks to a bit of a logic hijinx on an AI, he's hot on the trail of the group who created him and people like him. Those gene-eng bastards! Enter new locations, strange planets, awesome man-eating plants and animals, and big surprises on grand scales. Sound like formula? Well, yeah. It is. It's pretty much a standard for adventure, but these books are following the same trail like clockwork. :) Is that a problem? I personally don't think so. In fact, I think ADF has a really great thing going because Flinx as a character is leveling up. His powers, man! And all the hints of really really really BDO's out there using him for their own purposes? The grand-scale stuff is pretty awesome. Think Star Wars where most of the screen time is dealing with people and small stuff and simple survival and mini-quests and then plop everything into a huge WTF event like blowing up the death star to wrap everything up. Yup. Pip and Flinx have that pretty much down. The big difference is always going to be in the truly cool way all this is weaving together on the macro scale. Loving it, even. :) I'm not going to spoil the title of this one but it's perfect on many levels. Macro and micro. An old character comes back to raise mighty hell. I was pretty damn impressed with the end. :)

Review # 2 was written on 2015-07-31 00:00:00 Andrew Stevenson There is more than one Reunion in this instalment of the Humanx Commonwealth series, one more obvious than the other. On his continuing journey of self-discovery, Flinx doubles back on his path and ends up back on Earth again, for the second time (unlike most of us, he wasn't born there). Perhaps it's because of this that this episode didn't grip me as immediately as some of the others. Perhaps it's just because I've read so many of these books back-to-back now, that I'm starting to experience the beginnings of burn-out on the series. Maybe I'm just tired and grumpy! :-) Flinx doesn't stay on Earth long, though; a piece of evidence he discovers there sends him hurtling out across the universe once more. (He actually obtains this evidence through some rather dubious moral activity which some readers of this book have found to be out of character for Flinx. I'm happy to put it down to his increasing desperation, though; Flinx has never been a saint, after all). He ends up in the galactic territory of the sinister AAnn race; reptilian, devious and warlike. While it's not good news for our hero, I actually enjoyed having the AAnn so directly involved in Flinx's adventures in this book (and the last, thinking about it) as they'd been a shadowy presence in the background of the series for what seemed like forever. They really take the spotlight here, with several chapters actually being written from the point of view of some of the AAnn characters. As long time readers of Foster's stuff will know, a new planet means a new menagerie of amazing but credible aliens. Foster's imagination for this sort of thing never ceases to impress me. Without spoiling anything, I think I'm safe to say that the ending of this book contains some pretty major events that will have a big impact on the series as a whole. I'm really itching to see where this is going now! P.S. - I had to listen to this chapter on Audible as, for some reason, this book isn't currently available for Kindle (which is how I've been reading the series up 'til now). The narrator does a pretty good job, although his voice for Flinx is a couple of octaves deeper than I'd previously imagined.