Ok story bit doesn't fit with the rest
343526
While the book had an ok story line the author jumps to a character that wasn't even in the other books and hardly features the people from the original book at all. The weird animal characters and were they come from are never explained either, something I personally didn't like
3712658
I'd like to go on record as saying this is not the end of Dark Horse Conan line.
This new book is an improvement over the last but it is a mixed blessing. The story is decent enough when it's not rambling. Once again the series suffers from being too long. This provides too many opportunities to get into needless characterization.
The problem is that the characters are not very complex and their dialogue doesn't move the story along. The hope is that eventually Timothy Truman will start doing what Howard did and that is to give a lot of character to his players by making them just revealing enough to be interesting while managing to avoid lengthy conversations. Right now there's a repetitive nature to these folks that skirts the risk of becoming cliche'.
For all this effort to establish these people in the life of Conan one wonders if they're going to be around for a while? The reader will learn this is probably not the case. If they return after the current (loooong running) arc, will we care?
This entire series has been plagued by the writers' desire to put their spin on Conan. Perhaps they feel that Robert E. Howard needed this effort?
At first it was  easy to let these attempts at expanding on Conan's life slide but the more I read Robert Howard and reread his Conan stories in particular the more it's apparent that most characterization was left to the imagination of the readers.
So, why do we need to know, and repeatedly, the motives of Lord Than, Iniri, her old blind companion, the sorcerer Atalis, etc? While we're asking those questions, why are the women all drawn to look vivacious and dress like dancers at "gentelmen's clubs"? Why did Than and Conan look so much alike? It was also disappointing to see the monster in the tale so early in the story. That made it seem inconsequential. I'm also not sure what the point of the reanimated Nestor sub plot was all about. Frankly, the walking and fighting undead (?) is already old hat. Conan could have fought regular flesh and blood soldiers and not the undead, reanimated corpses. It was overkill. Then there's Conan's first intentions when he sees the princess. I won't ruin it by revealing anything, but again, it was inappropriate.
Tomas Giorello's art is good but not very distinctive. His drawings look bound to John Buscema's stylings if he was influenced by Simon Bisley. (Why does Conan seem to be stuck in Frazetta's idea of how he should look? I love Frazetta's work but other artists have made distinctive efforts that are just as viable. So, rather than the Buscema/Frazetta model could we see a Conan the way Mike Kaluta, Gil Kane, Barry Windsor-Smith or the recent trio of illustrators designed him? If not, why?)
The colorist on this series is a vast improvement over the previous "Rogues in the House" story arc.
In the end this book is better but it still cursed by poor choices. At best I have to say it's a mixed bag; not terrible, not commendable.
2992320
The book is not bad, it just does not move the main story forward.  It's basically a collection of stories that allow you to learn about the various characters back stories. I would have been much more satisfied if it has a story that expanded the main plot and then just two stories that covered the back stories of the other characters.
1135573
A bit of the story is missing, but still good...
4094927
While the actual story is there and is pretty much faithful to the movie, save a couple of lines and parts here and there, and the added backstory of some of the characters is good to read and adds to the main story, the problem is that Goldman wanders all over the place, from the movie set to the publishing house to interjections in the story, and doing so really screws the whole thing up.  It would have made much more sense to simply tell the story and skip the interludes and be done with it.  Start on page 37, read to page 357, skip the rest and most readers will be fine.
488363
The story is OK, but the narrative could be better - I feel for Ellis, growing up in his situation and the main action involving the evil Raymond Schaefer kept my interest, but it seems as if we are being told everything instead of using the characters themselves to unfold the story.
I am not a professional writer and reviews are meant to be honest, however, as a reviewer, I can't help being subjective. What may be profound to me, might seem trivial to another reader.  My 3 star rating means I thought it was OK - I try not to give 5 stars very often.
161473
McDougall tries to tell several interesting stories at once.  There's the WWII story, natural motion story, the diet story, the scholar stories and a few others for good measure. Any one of these could be interesting on their own, but rather than progressing the story arc you are instead introduced to a new character and need to learn their background every few pages.  British spies, Nazi generals, Greek freedom fighters, Historians, academics, French athletic instructors, Brazilian athletic instructors, world class triathletes.  It quickly spirals out of control.  No skirt straightening and braid pulling, but there's so many people you can't keep it all straight.  Some of it was page turning and much of it was informative so I'll give it 3 stars.  I don't regret reading it but it certainly didn't live up to Born to Run standards.
3485134
While some stories in the book are pretty good, most sound like the narratives one finds on medals recommendations; 'While I struggled to control the jet, my Co Pilot used extraordinary situational awareness to ensure... While the Gunner provided critical communications through SATCOM to ensure that Command...." One really doesn't get the 'flavor' or 'first hand' story.
4042501
this is about human like people the story doesnt hold your attentiion . it was a in the bargin bin fro a reason
4193549
I liked the story for Muff, but didn't feel it was developed enough.  Ms. Jewel could have added some story and made this book 4 instead of 3.5. I also felt the scenes with all of the characters at the cabin were too silly.  I cannot see Jackson and the other males acting like this.  Too weird.
455122
The Fairy tales was ok but it didn't have a table of content. You can't move to well with it.
4068975
Main story: Kinda lazy on the story while focusing on excentric character psychology which didn't work for me.

I actualy preferred first couple of shorter stories.

Last story is a joke and I couldn't bother to dechifer it (if possible at all).
475415
The JD Robb story was great, but the other stories just don't mix well for me. Not my style of stories and they just didn't seem to belong along side a Lt Dallas story. I would prefer stories more crime related, these others are no where close. It's a shame you have to buy the entire novel just to get the short stories in the Lt Dallas series.
989851
I read this book because I read part one. Although I was not too pleased with the prequel, I didn't hate it and I thought the writing style of the author was ok and the story line was exciting enough for me to give it a try. I understand authors are trying to make it out here, but c'mon, story telling is an art as is writing. Too much of part one was in this book, there was too much redundancy; telling the same story word for word from another character's POV. This is where it ends for me even though there are a couple more parts, I just can't go on. This one bad the last one were horribly sliced to make for more reading, they could have easily been 1 book. Anyway, I'm not trying to discourage readers from reading this book, I'm just leaving my honest review.
3303109
The story and concept are great but the way it's told is not. The storytelling jumps over details too frequently. I felt like I was reading someone's outline instead of a story.
2351950
The story here is incredibly unfinished. It's more like notes and bones from a longer piece, without anything to really provide it any substance. That being said, I'd read it if it were expanded and fleshed out, because what's here is promising.
1573242
"Everything in place" but it's a case when the book have all bits present but they don't fit together well. The story is OK but I don't feel that I liked it. I don't feel anyhting for the characters as I feel in greate books I liked. I barely made it to the end of the book. It looks like something is missing or in the wrong place or form.