V: The Second Generation Novel Review

It had taken me a few tries getting into this novel. I would say it was mostly because I wanted to see this New version of V in March two thousand and ten more than wanting to read more about the original series latter adventures. I finally decided to take the book with me on my trip to Cuenca Ecuador when I went to go see my parents who've lived there since November two thousand and eight, before this they were renting as far back as February of the same year. What I can tell you so far of the novel is it is very much the series that Kenneth Johnson had started with the original V miniseries from waaaaaaaaaay back in nineteen eighty three. The new novel has these three characters in it Dania, Julie Parrish, Micheal Donovan plus many other old favorites as well as a bunch of new characters as well. There are some true V fans who loved the original miniseries and V the final battle and liked a little of the weekly TV series that followed the final battle, who have their own websites that detest this novel even though it's written by the creator of the series to begin with Kenneth Johnson. All I can say is those fans are entitled to look at the V THE SECOND GENERATION, how they wish to as I may look at the story as a way to boost insight into the future projects the sale of the novel can set up for. Hence: ABC's network new take on the classic series. As I had said before I was hoping to have read this before this new version had ever hit the air waves, there was ONE small problem with that and it was that my copy of the book wasn't delivered to where I placed the order of it in time to. Even if I did try to read it before hand I'd have to watch while reading thank god for small favors. Now that it's close to the new series last episode for season one (which is May 18th, 2010 for those of you wanting to catch it, but you can also be let in on a little secret it has been renewed for a second season starting in the fall). This is about a squeal to a book called V, the original miniseries not about it's revival on current network television as a series so here it is as the novel starts three hunters named Myer,Niblo, Burton, are heading into the high SIERRAS mountains when they find two strange looking women who aren't quite entirely human outside of their body type, the two women kill the three men and make contact with someone known as Ayden. We come to find out that Diana has renamed the Visitor youth to now The Teammates and that there was a great war against the human forces known as the Resistance known as the Great Purge in 1999. A Teammate leader known as Sarah tries to get a human boy named Nathan Avery to see that the Visitors weren't good. Sarah was hoping Nathan would join the Resistance with her if only she could talk to him about it, but it takes her death and a little girl whose half human and half Visitor to convince the lad. Her name is Ruby (this is Elizabeth from V the final battle and the weekly series), she is known here after the old lady who helps Julie in her time of need in the V miniseries & the final battle. We also learn that there are many like her they are known as half breeds, Diana has mister Micheal Donovan as her special prisoner which she refereed to as "A personal souvenir from the Great Purge. The two ladies with Ayden are named Bryke and Kayta all three are representatives of a race with bug like genetic DNA known as the Zedti who are sworn enemies of the Visitors. One thing I found interesting was Kenneth Johnson seems to have two different takes on the Visitor Leader in the miniseries and the final battle he seems to indicate that the Leader is male in origin, where as here in this very novel he seem to show the Leader as a female in origin. I won't tell you the end of how V the Second Generation ends in case you wish to read it for yourselves.