Mass Effect: Deception

Full of inconsistencies, grammar issues, and a boring plot

From the very first page I could tell the author knew very little about Mass Effect. This is just insulting to be honest. It’s as if he was given the spark notes to the previous books and didn’t bother actually reading them. The entire climax of the story was ridiculous and shoehorned in. Kahlee and Anderson were pretty useless in this book and I think it could have benefited from fewer scenes with them, and more with Gillian and Nick. The ‘Biotic Underground’ were pretty laughable too. They want to replace the Council and rule the galaxy. Instead they should have given them the motive of becoming a powerful criminal organisation, one that can carve out a kingdom on Omega and potentially overthrow Aria, all to secure a powerful base for all Biotics to rally to and find acceptance or safety. Or have then building their own little sanctuary nation, but to do so they require money and thus a portion of them operate on Omega to get what their Sanctuary requires. Simple motivations that are achievable and have the best of intentions, though are grounded in the ‘The ends justifies the means’ policy.

He also kills off three main characters in the space of about 5 pages. Which would be fine, I suppose, if their deaths were actually well done. And let’s not even get into how the teenagers are only supposed to be 15, and yet the writer thinks they’re 18 and isn’t aware of where the book sits in the timeline. God this book is bad. Sorry author, I try to never bash on writers, but this is seriously terrible. If you aren’t familiar with the series and aren’t prepared to do the research... DON’T TAKE THE JOB.