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Title: Caliban Cove (Resident Evil #2)
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Author: S.D. Perry
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Review of Caliban Cove (Resident Evil #2)

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Comments for Caliban Cove (Resident Evil #2)

• Posted on 2009-07-28
  Predictable, but not awful.
  
  S. D. Perry, Caliban Cove (Pocket, 1998)
  
  Perry returns to the Resident Evil world in Caliban Cove, her second novel in the series. Rebecca, the intrepid eighteen-year-old aspiring biochemist from The Umbrella Conspiracy, is back. The book opens a few weeks after the events in the first novel, and the surviving members of the S.T.A.R.S. Team have been raked over the coals. There's a conspiracy in play, and the team are considered to blame for the destruction of an historic landmark. No one mentions, you know, the zombies. Other S.T.A.R.S. Branches know what's going on, and one of them comes to the survivors, telling them of another lab like the one in Raccoon City located in Caliban Cove, Maine, and they want Rebecca to come help them look for documents relating to the T-virus. The rest of the team stay back in Raccoon City, while Rebecca heads to Maine to see what new dangers Umbrella has in store for the world. When she gets there, though, she finds the biggest surprise of her young career--someone has gotten the best of Umbrella, and the lunatics really are in charge of the asylum...
  
  While the book keeps with the decent writing and breakneck pace of the first installment, there's a lot here that feels facile, including a painfully obvious romantic subplot (which is odd, because there's another romantic subplot that is nicely understated). Not a bad book, but not as good as the first. Hope the series picks up again in the next installment. ***
  
  
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• Posted on 2008-02-15
  These books get my son to read
  
  Having never read these books myself, I can only tell you how I feel about them as a parent.
  
  I love them.
  
  My son is reading again. When he was little, he used to love reading. But as he got older, he started hating it. Imagine my disappointment when, as a writer, my son doesn't like to read. Fortunately, it was just a matter of finding a subject matter that he liked. He loves playing the video game version of these books, so I thought I'd pick one up as a lark and see if he'd read it.
  
  He didn't put it down for a solid week and read the whole thing cover to cover. I'm so pleased.
  
  As a parent, I'm not as concerned with the subject matter (for the most part) as I am with the reading itself. If these books can interest my son in reading, then they are worth ever penny of the list price.
  
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• Posted on 2007-12-13
  REbooks
  
  I like these books , it helps fill in the blanks , this paticular book help explain what happened to Rebeca after RE1.
  
  Collect and read them all.
  
  
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• Posted on 2007-10-18
  Only For Hardcore Fans
  
  While the first is entertaining in and of itself, the second novel in the Resident Evil series does very little to draw in the casual reader, taking readers out of the frighteningly familiar urban setting and replacing it with an absurdly, almost comical, rush mission to a cave in Maine.
  
  Mostly, fans will enjoy the novel, though it seems to stray from the original concept, which doesn't bode well for those looking for the homogeneity of Resident Evil. Zombies and humans duking it out, the latter looking for answers as to why this apocalypse has come to take place.
  
  That is not to say that the book doesn't at least deliver on the gore of the previous book, which is definitely a plus. The looming melancholy, though, is almost noticeably absent, as are several of the main characters after the first fifty pages.
  
  Only suggested for the hardcore fan of the game series, Caliban Cove pales in comparison to other zombie novels.
  
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• Posted on 2007-10-14
  The story continues...
  
  Caliban Cove...the story continues. It tells about what happens to Rebecca Chambers after the disaster at the masion lab. Excellent for Rebecca's fans...
  
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