Mechwarrior: Dark Age #16: Daughter of the Dragon (A BattleTech Novel)

Some decent story advancement, but overall was far too concerned with side stories, and Ms. Bick seems overly indulgent with blood, gore, and sex, not necessarily in that order. More convoluted than the average Mechwarrior - Dark Age novel, and not in a good way.

This book does not center on sexual fantasy, no matter how dark. Some of the scenes do have more of an "R" rating than most of MechWarrior or BattleTech, but nothing really over the top.

A major part of this book involves a psychotic killer, and we do spend some time inside his head -- which is not a pretty place-- but he's not a patch on, say, Hannibal Lechter. As killers in the BattleTech universe go, he's much tamer than Kali Liao. She, if you'll recall, loved to nerve-gas civilians and was known for torturing people to near death then nursing them back to health only to torture them back to the edge of death. Repeated the cycle with some of her "favorites" for years. (I will grant that Loren Coleman did not go into the detail Ilsa Bick does, so to that extent Kali Liao may be less disturbing to some readers. But as pure evil goes, this guy isn't in her league.)

His big mistake is focusing on Katana. Sort of like Hannibal Lechter becoming fixated on a...Read more

I thought I was reading a Robert Jordan novel the way the story line jumps around. Too bad it wasn't as well written as Robert's novels.