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Annihilation Squad [Mass Market Paperback]

Gav Thorpe (Author)
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'Thorpe writes strong, uncluttered narrative, and his characters actually sound like real people.'

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A cross a hundred blasted war-zones upon a dozen bloody worlds, the convict soldiers of the 13th Penal Legion fight a desperate battle for redemption in the eyes of the immortal Emperor! Now Lieutenant Kage has been tasked with recruiting a new team of Last Chancers for a final desperate mission as he hunts a lone traitor across the galaxy. When the trail leads to the killing fields of Armageddon, Kage and his team must prepare to sacrifice all if they are to win salvation. The long awaited third and final novel in Gav Thorpe's 'Last Chancers' series is guaranteed to be packed full of shocks!

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3.0 out of 5 stars Book 3 May 30 2006
By Detra Fitch TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is the third book of the Last Chancers trilogy. Please notice that the novel was released in April 2004, almost three years after the first two! I would think that it meant the author took extra time to make the ending extra surprising and/or climatic. Unfortunately, this is not the case.

You must read the previous novels or you will not only be lost, but also never come to really know the characters, such as Kage and Schaeffer. Numerous battles occur with the single objective of letting me, the reader, marvel at the outstanding fights and a few strategical elements. I was not disappointed in these combat scenes either! Yet nothing important really happens here. They wander around, fight, wander some more, fight, on and on.

*** I got to see more orks than normal for a WH40K universe trilogy. Kage even seems a bit more believable than ever when a female enters the picture. Well, sort of anyway. You have to read in order to fully understand what I am driving at. (On a more personal note, and at the risk of sounding like a heretic, I really enjoyed the character of Urkug. He is a massive ork and bit like one of my online role playing orks.) This novel wraps up the original trilogy. The ending is weak and seems pointless, but not totally bad. For the full effect, consider purchasing the entire Last Chancers trilogy, with two extra short stories that tie it all together ISBN: 1844163008 ***

Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing Sep 25 2004
By Noirceuil le Sombre - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Mass Market Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
After reading about Schaeffer's Last Chancers in the Imperial Guard codex, I got my hands on a copy of Kill Team. I enjoyed Gav Thorpe's Angels of Darkness, so I had faith that Kill Team would live up to the same standards. It did.

Annhiliation Squad did not. The beginning is a bit disorienting and there is a noticeable lack of character development that made the previous novel interesting. Much of the plot development is meandering and monotonous. The epic backdrop of the 3rd Armageddon War can't even invigorate this lackluster story. In the last 3rd of the book there are some intriguing twists that immediately spiral into a miasmic convolution that abruptly terminates like a piece of rotten fruit hitting a concrete wall. You read the last sentence and turn the page, thinking there will be another paragragh or new chapter and realize that the story is just ... over!

I won't speculate why it ended the way it did, but it was disappointing.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars What happend Gav? Aug 25 2004
By R. W. GRANT - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Wow! Was this ever BAD! Awful! Stinks! ....

Absolutely none of the "charm" of the earlier Last Chancer's novels. If there was character development here, I sure missed it. The plot is weak -Chancers land on Armageddon and wander around supposedly on an assassination mission - but mostly stuff just happens. And speaking of stuff just happening... the ending feels so tacked on, artificial, and just plane dumb, you almost wonder if Thorpe had to complete the last chapters in 10-15 minutes to meet a publishing deadline. I wish I could be more specific with the flaws in this book but I don't want to provide any spoilers to those that would like to experience this for themselves.

Really, truly, surprisingly bad. That's sad since the others in the series have been interesting reads. Hopefully this was an aberration, not a sign of things to come.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Book 3 May 30 2006
By Detra Fitch - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is the third book of the Last Chancers trilogy. Please notice that the novel was released in April 2004, almost three years after the first two! I would think that it meant the author took extra time to make the ending extra surprising and/or climatic. Unfortunately, this is not the case.

You must read the previous novels or you will not only be lost, but also never come to really know the characters, such as Kage and Schaeffer. Numerous battles occur with the single objective of letting me, the reader, marvel at the outstanding fights and a few strategical elements. I was not disappointed in these combat scenes either! Yet nothing important really happens here. They wander around, fight, wander some more, fight, on and on.

*** I got to see more orks than normal for a WH40K universe trilogy. Kage even seems a bit more believable than ever when a female enters the picture. Well, sort of anyway. You have to read in order to fully understand what I am driving at. (On a more personal note, and at the risk of sounding like a heretic, I really enjoyed the character of Urkug. He is a massive ork and bit like one of my online role playing orks.) This novel wraps up the original trilogy. The ending is weak and seems pointless, but not totally bad. For the full effect, consider purchasing the entire Last Chancers trilogy, with two extra short stories that tie it all together ISBN: 1844163008 ***

Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.
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