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bookcrazylady45's review
3.0
Still holding my interest...I am loving the fact that I might just get to read this series all the way through one last time in my long life. I don't like changing it from 4 stars to 3 stars but as one gets older one is a bit fussier (not more discerning :-)
sexton_blake's review
3.0
As with the previous Dumarest novels, the reader is thrown straight into the action and immediately hooked. It’s pulpy, it has little depth, it’s forgettable … but, dammit, there’s something really enjoyable about this series. For sure, the first half of TOYMAN is weaker than its two predecessors—the political skullduggery feels too much like a reply of the previous volume—but it still makes you feel good, like listening to a shitty heavy metal album by, say, The Scorpions, when you’re in just the right mood. By the halfway mark, it considerably improves, and I really liked the climactic chapters. Certainly, I’ll continue with the series.
sfian's review
4.0
The annoying thing about this book is the amount of typos and formatting errors - did they not have proofreaders in the 70s? Also, the cover on my version (not the same as the one on here) is horrible and somehow a little disturbing.
Still, it's another that puts paid to the worry that my re-reading off this series might make me wonder what I saw in them first time round, all those years ago. Good, pulpy, SF adventure, with a likeable (although somehow seeming less so at times) hero and virtual-moustache twirling villains. Yet more heartache for Dumarest at the end as his objective - data on the whereabouts of Earth - is destroyed by his own hand.
Still, it's another that puts paid to the worry that my re-reading off this series might make me wonder what I saw in them first time round, all those years ago. Good, pulpy, SF adventure, with a likeable (although somehow seeming less so at times) hero and virtual-moustache twirling villains. Yet more heartache for Dumarest at the end as his objective - data on the whereabouts of Earth - is destroyed by his own hand.
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