Wednesday, January 4, 2012

The Kindle Book Review ~ Reviewer’s Choice Day #4

Gabriel's Redemption (Evan Gabriel Trilogy)Anthony Wessel, from our staff at Digital Book Today, is also a reviewer for our neighbors The Kindle Book Review. His group will be highlighting one reviewer’s favorite book from 2011 in the coming weeks. They were asked to vote for their favorite kindle book. They review a lot of books, but only promote those that meet the quality standards of 4 stars or higher.The Kindle Book Review ~ Reviewer’s Choice Day #4

Welcome to 2012 and another edition of The Kindle Book Review Reviewer’s Choice.
Today’s pick has received a lot of mileage around here for no other reason than it’s just that good. Our mystery reviewer Tom Clementson chose Gabriel’s Return by Steve Umstead as his favorite book from KBR in 2011. Gabriel’s Return has 25 reviews and a 4.8 star rating. 5.0 out of 5 stars A Sci-Fi Rumble in the Jungle, November 17, 2011

This review is from: Gabriel’s Return (Evan Gabriel Trilogy) (Kindle Edition)
Power up your Oso-11 heavy assault rifle and join Evan Gabriel’s team as they face a new threat on an old battlefield in Steve Umstead’s second novel in the Evan Gabriel Trilogy, `Gabriel’s Return’. Picking up the story six months after the conclusions of the first book, Umstead instills in you a false sense of security and normalcy so that he can leverage his plot and jerk the rug out from under you and his characters. This book is loaded with more than enough hi-tech action but Umstead finds balance and depth by presenting a more complex plot and delves much deeper into his characters.

Against all odds – a summary


Evan Gabriel and his team of special operations forces have been cleaning up the streets of Mars. Gone are the criminals and the chaos, replaced by the pleasant smiles of pedestrians and laughter of children playing. Things are winding down for Gabriel and his crack unit but political forces are manipulating events around the galaxies that will put it all in jeopardy.
Learning that one of his men from the ill-fated Eden mission is alive but imprisoned, Gabriel takes his team back to where his nightmare began. As they prepare for this latest Eden mission, one team member falls to a traitor’s plot and they quickly realize the only people they can trust are each other. Ill-equipped and undermanned, Gabriel and his crew must fight their way through enemy territory and defeat an army of terrorists in order to eliminate the mysterious `Prophet’ and rescue their hostages.
Meanwhile, political machinations begin to play out as an anonymous mastermind, backed by the La Republica de Sudamerica, begins his coup on Mars while Gabriel and his team are light years away battling the terrorists and their own personal demons.

Final Thoughts
While there were no major surprises in the story, there was more than enough action and intrigue to keep me turning page after suspenseful. In fact I enjoyed this book as much, if not more than the first novel for a couple of reasons. First, we get a much better picture about the kind of man Evan Gabriel really is because he’s no longer a one-man show on the run. Second, the mix between action and intrigue was much more balanced and definitely sews enough threads to make me excited about reading Gabriel’s Revenge (Book 3). Add it all together and you have a five-star read in Gabriel’s Return.

Tom Clementson (Kindle Book Review)

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