By: Marjorie M. Liu Publisher: Pocket Star Average Rating: Binding: Mass Market Paperback Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 320 Publication Date: December 27, 2005 Studio: Pocket Star
Product Description: Feared and mistrusted by the very people they have sworn to protect, the X-Men are a band of mutant heroes dedicated to defending humans from those mutants who would use their powers to harm and destroy. Blessed -- some would say cursed -- with awesome abilities, the members of the X-Men are Earth's last defense against villains and madmen...and the future's only hope.
Jean Grey awakens in an unfamiliar room. She is weak, disoriented, stripped of her telepathic and telekinetic powers -- and trapped in someone else's body. Also prisoner are her teammates Cyclops, Wolverine, Rogue, and Nightcrawler -- their minds held hostage within the bodies of strangers. Who has brought them here, and for what purpose? The answers lead to a terrifying plan that threatens not only the X-Men, but all of mutantkind...
Marjorie M. Liu ^ I have all of Marjorie Liu's books and I think she is up there with Feehan, Kenyan, Sands, Bangs and a host of other well known authors that I read and can't get enough of. Her books are entertaining and keep you rooting for the good guys and wishing one of them lived at your house. I'll purchase every book she writes because she is now on my list of "Favorites". If you like this type of reading I would urge you to read her books.
decent book ^ I bought this book because I usually enjoy body swap stories. This book didn't disappoint. The X-Men felt true to their comic book counter-parts and everything felt in character. I enjoyed the setting and the premise but I was a little let down that not much time was spent on the villains. The biggest weakness in the book was that I didn't feel the villains had a strong enough motivation for their actions.
The book kept me turning pages which is good but it fell a little flat for me overall. Those looking for hyper super-hero action will be disappointed. The book is more of a character study.
Interesting Idea. Poorly Executed. ^ While this book had an interesting premise it fails on the execution. The focus on the 5 X-Men while in the mental hospital got a bit boring. The action and exciting parts of the book are brief and at the end. Also, the "villian" of the story is woefully underdeveloped.
Fed up ^ I had given up on Marvel comics because of the exponential sleaze factor that kept creeping in. Still, I missed the characters, and took refuge in the novels based on the Marvel Universe. Christopher Golden's X-men trilogy is one of the best I've ever read, and if the comics were more like this series, I never would have stopped buying them.
But this author decided to go for gritty "realism". If I wanted realism why would I be buying a novel based on a comic book? Some of her descriptions made my skin crawl, and I finally tossed the whole thing aside when Wolverine takes mental note of certain body piercings belonging to a host body he is inhabiting. Very classy. I haven't bought another Marvel novel since.
X-Men ^ This X-Men book was fantastic, I like X-Men the x-men stories from the comics and the movies. This book was funny, interesting and I couldn't put it down. My favourite parts were about Logan in the woman's body, the way he talked and the things he did was like Logan would do but being described as him coming from her body was so funny. I felt for Rogue who has wanted to touch but it being forced on her, it not being what she wanted. The way this book is written is great, hearing what the characters think and feel, I love how the author has described what they do and say is amazing, you get so much more from the book then you can you can get from the comics. I can't wait to read more X-Men books like this.
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