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Title: Pulse
Series: Chess Team Adventure #1
Author: Jeremy Robinson
Rating: 4.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Action/Adventure
Pages: 335
Format: Digital Edition
| Synopsis: |
Ridley wants to live forever. All he needs to do is find the head of the mythical hydra and turn his science team onto it. When a U.N. Team finds it, Ridley steals it, kills the team and kidnaps one of the scientists. Unfortunately for Ridley, said scientist is the best friend of Jack Sigler
Jack, better known as King, is the head of a super-secret Special Forces group, led by the anonymous Deep Blue. Each member has a Chess piece designation and they are the top of the top and so dark that even a Black Hole looks white compared to them.
The Chess Team swings into action and carnage ensues. Volcanoes blowing up, humans going crazy with super regenerative powers, killer capybara’s, a restored Hyda and Hercules. Yes, Hercules. He’s real as the hydra. Ridley’s Security Group is almost as good as the Chess Team so hopefully between them both, they can take down a creature that is immortal and can regenerate.
| My Thoughts: |
Why this book hit the spot, I don’t know, but my goodness, it was pure action/adventure with a dose of mythicalness that caught my imagination with guns, guts and glory. The closest series that approximates this is Greig Beck’s Alex Hunter series. But while that is mediocre and just ok, this was pure awesome.
I know I’m kind of babbling but I’m having a very hard time nailing down why I liked this so much. There were guns, big guns and lots of gun battles. There were human monsters. There were monster monsters. There were dastardly bad guys and super heroic good guys. There was a secret society. And Hercules.
All those things came together in the perfect way. I don’t know if future books will affect me the same or if anyone would like this book as much as me, so take all this blathering enthusiasm with a big dose of reality.
Cheers!
★★★★ ½
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I’ve thought about trying this one out. I’ve read a book he wrote under a pen name, Jeremiah Knight. It’s on my backlog of novels to blog about.
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I went to his website and he’s the typical prolific indie. I just hope future books are as good because I’ve got quite the stack ahead of me now 🙂
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Adding this to the list.
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And even if later books are a bust [like Shikanoko], this is a nice complete story.
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Sounds good. He writes the most interesting stories, I have a book by him with a premise that basically boils down to zombies vs. robots, lol.
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Would that be Xombie?
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Yes! 🙂
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Sometimes I find it hardest to review the titles I enjoy the most. I just end up rambling haha. I really like the fact that this seems to have a nice dose of mythology tucked within. Sounds like a fast paced, fun read!
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Fast paced, that is a great description and very apt.
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Ooh sounds fun!!! I like the sound of monstery monsters and Hercules!!
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Hercules only appears at the very beginning and then kind of anonymously during the middle. It’s almost more of a name dropping kind of thing 🙂
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haha well your namedropping the namedropping made me want to pick it so… moral of the story: name dropping works!
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I’m still giggling about the human monsters-monsters monsters quip 🙂
Oh, and I love the cover!
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Sometimes the monster inside is way worse than anything someone can imagine 😦
I like the cover too. Whoever the cover artist is, they did a great job.
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Pretty interesting how hard you find it to put your finger on exactly why you enjoyed this. It does however sound super action-packed and definitely something that doesn’t lack POW and WOW.
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I think part of it was timing. I was very disappointed with where Lord of the Darkwood went and so something that put me on a bullet train and never stopped, barely allowing me to catch my breath, was exactly what I needed at that time. Kind of like how good water tastes when you are really thirsty…
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Your analogies, always on point. 🙂
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Funny that you’d compare Robinson to Beck, I’d not drawn that similarity, probably because I didn’t like the first Greg Beck novel I read. Although, Robinson has his own flaws. He certainly puts together a cracking thriller, and he churns them out. But part of the quick turn-around seems to be some major holes in his research.
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Special special for es, a touch of mythic or supernatural. Ones team oriented and the others individual.
As for ‘research’ I tend to turn my brains off for books like this, so it has to be pretty agregious for me to notice. Of course, now that you’ve said something…
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Have you read James Rollins’ first novel. He did something similar.
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I have not. Or, I don’t think so anyway…
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