P.S. The foreword of the book made it seem like the Battletech line was being sold to a new company b/c FASA was closing. It also seem to say that novels were going to end b/c of this sale. I would certainly hope that the novels are not ending and that someone continues to write more in this series.


Not Bad, but lacks a Stackpole feeling   April 16, 2002
 3 out of 3 found this review helpful

Once again, I am disappointed with the shallow depth of the "progression" of the battletech story line. Coleman is a very capable writer, but the complete lack of main characters is ridiculous. Kai, Phelan, the Clans. Look, I know the Clans were beat up, but there is no way that they would stand by while a civil war continues. A must read for battletech fans, however, big storyline developements. Good battles.

*As a note to the guy from Ohio above, the Battletech license was sold to a company called WizKidz, and a new era of battletech has been created. Mike Stackpole has signed on to write a book in fall/winter of this year.


It is starting to feel like I'm walking through mud.   April 24, 2002
 3 out of 4 found this review helpful

Can we move past the Civil war. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but it is nice to have the good guys occasionally win in the end. The 3 book series concept was great. The Gray Death, The Warrior Trilogy, The Blood of Kerensky, even the Way of the clans. Twighlight of the clans was pushing it with 8 or 9 books. This civil war feels like it is dragging on forever. (Spare me the reality speech. If I wanted reality, I wouldn't be reading so many books) Storms of fate, while well written, (I like Loren Coleman alot) does nothing but deliver more traumatic blows to the good guys. The whole story line has grown very stale, and is becoming unpleasant reading. I also believe the death of a certain character to be a sad mistake that removed a quality from the overall universe. The Assasin thing is also getting old. Surely, the leaders of these huge blocks of worlds can protect themselves better. It seems like they have "Assasins get in half price" night at the Luthien palaces. The only reason I would reccomend this book is because it is part of a series. This is not a book to get someone interested in Battletech. It is merely a stepping stone that I don't want to miss because I want to understand the ending to this line of events. (Lord, let it be soon please.)


Coleman is at his best   May 31, 2002
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Well, since I have been reading/playing battletech for years now, I imagine I have some seniority on the matter. This book, while still the same civil war does much to keep it from tiring. In this novel specifically, we loose a charecter, see a charecter at their worst, and see an old charecter come back from the grave, such as it were. If you are not already an avid fan/reader of the Battletech series, this may not be a spectacular place to start, but as long as you have read one or two books in the series and know the politics and such in general, this is a spectacular book. It brings the current story closer to a close (which any good reader knows won't stay closed), and opens up new possibilites with the election of a "fair" Star Leauge ruler and the addition of two new member states to the leauge. Nobody does them like Coleman.


A Solid Addition to the Shelves of Battletech Fans   June 22, 2002
 1 out of 2 found this review helpful

Like its sister book Patriots and Tyrants, Storms of Fate is a very solid book. As I have noticed, many Stackpole fans grieve his departure from FASA and criticize Coleman's work. I find Coleman's style much more interesting. He has a much more personal insight to his characters and, overall, I like his version of Victor Davion much better than Stackpole's. Storms of Fate begins with a bang with a terrible twist involving the assassination of a person very dear to Victor. It rises continually in action involving the politics of the Star League Council and it ends and leaves you hanging and hungering for more. The political issues in this book are masterfully created and I believe that Coleman lives up to, if not surpasses, Stackpole's legacy. Read this book. You will not be able to set it down. This is definitely worth your six bucks.