Shadowrun Fiction

1999

Not the worst novel in the line, but tries to get close

Mel Odom, who until that moment had written a number of quite competent Shadowrun novels discovers that letting out the inner fan is never a good idea and Argent written not by Nigel Findley isn’t Argent (still better than most of the other novels written around that time, but I’m not sure whether I want to reread it)

The worst Shadowrun novel

1997

The second in Jake Koke’s Dragon Heart trilogy. See what I wrote about the first part below, the same applies here as well

The first in Jak Koke’s Dragon Heart trilogy. The entire trilogy is the equivalent of a Hollywood blockbuster: loud, dumb and stupid to the bone, but still manages to entertain as pure popcorn (which cannot be said about Koke’s Dead Air or The Terminus Experiment)

Good writing, bad plotting

While the book had obvious faults in both the writing and plotting department, there were a few nice touches and I thought I should give Smedman the benefit of doubt regarding future Shadowrun novels (in hindsight I shouldn’t have)

The beginning of the end. The first Shadowrun novel that bored me and did not manage to capture what made Shadowrun such a unique setting. The set pieces were mostly there, but the spirit had left