I didn’t really like the dinosaur variations & at no stage do you ever really feel like our heroes are in any danger so a lot of tension is lost.

The idea of this facility being a testing centre for many of Umbrella’s creations was a good idea & it was exciting to see John & Leon work there way through several different testing areas facing off against new & old enemy types. That wouldn’t be a problem if she wasn’t so unbelievably resilient. Perry is a fan) but ends up taking major punishment throughout. Rebecca is a major player again (clearly S.D. Neither is used successfully & it’s clear the book has too many stars vying for reading time. The canon characters perform in un-convincing ways too…a love story between Leon & Claire is more than hinted at & feels wrong. The trio are lifeless & hard to picture as they go through the same motions as previous books. Once again the focus is put on the non-canon characters…John, David & the new Umbrella baddie, Reston who at least differs from the usual crazy Resident Evil scientist. Reading a book like this knowing exactly where the universe has gone (Resident Evil 5, 6, Revelations etc.) makes it an even more difficult read. What follows is a so-so story that really doesn’t add anything new or fresh to the Resident Evil universe. That plan changes when the ‘still’ mysterious Trent appears on their plane & tells them of a facility in Utah run by a man called Reston, who is only one of three Umbrella operatives who have a codebook which allows access to all of Umbrella’s secret files. They manage to give them the slip before boarding a private plane bound for Europe where they will meet up with the rest of S.T.A.R.S. When we first meet back up with them they are involved in a shootout on the road with Umbrella agents. Underworld takes the survivors from Caliban Cove (Rebecca, David & John) & puts them with Claire & Leon from Resident Evil 2. Her own stories though just aren’t that interesting… Perry expands on the games within the series really well. The joy of reading a videogame novelisation is the expanded universe & S.D. I found that book to be severely lacking quality missing the vital component that makes the other books so compelling. Perry has written that isn’t based on one of the games with the first being Caliban Cove. Perry’s Resident Evil books based off the hit video game franchise choses to once again tell its own story.

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