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William C Dietz | 336 pages | 31 Jan 2012 | Random House USA Inc | 9780345520739 | English | New York, United States Mass Effect: Deception - Wikipedia

An all-new adventure inspired by the award-winning videogame from BioWare! The universe is under siege. Every fifty thousand years, a race of sentient machines invades our galaxy to harvest all organic life-forms. They are the Reapers. Two people who know the truth are desperately searching for a way to stop the cycle: Navy admiral David Anderson and his partner, Kahlee Sanders. They have uncovered grisly evidence proving that the Reaper threat is real. But in so doing they have exposed the machinations of Cerberus, a secretive paramilitary organization, and its mysterious leader, the Illusive Man—putting David and Kahlee in mortal danger, for Cerberus will stop at nothing to protect its secrets. But along the way, they find an unlikely ally in Gillian Grayson, a young woman with extraordinary powers. Once the subject of horrifying scientific experiments, Gillian is now free—and beginning to master her deadly abilities. But after learning that Cerberus was responsible for the death of her father, Gillian swears vengeance against the group and the Illusive Man—threatening to unravel everything Kahlee and David are fighting for. I am a big fan of Mass Effect. I loved the first three books. This wiki. This wiki All wikis. Sign In Don't have an account? Start a Wiki. Do you like this video? Categories :. Cancel Save. Doctor Who: The Wheel of Ice. Stephen Baxter. Ringworld Throne. The Alpha Enigma. Michael Gear. Transformers: Exiles. The Void Trilogy 3-Book Bundle. Ballroom of the Skies. John D. John Harrison. Alan Dean Foster. Irontown Blues. The Garden of Rama. Gentry Lee and Arthur C. Soon I Will be Invincible. Austin Grossman. Doctor Who: Harvest of Time. Alastair Reynolds. Robot Dreams. Elizabeth Bear. William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. Michael A. Stackpole and Aaron Allston. Caine Black Knife. Matthew Stover. Paul S. Kemp , Drew Karpyshyn and Sean Williams. Mass Effect: Deception - Mass Effect 3 Wiki Guide - IGN

After the presentation, they find that Nick has disappeared. They go to The Cube, a gym for biotics, to see if he had gone there early, but no luck. A volus attendant at The Cube directs them to Ocosta Lem and Arrius Sallus, a salarian and a turian that Nick had been seen with on earlier visits. Lem and Sallus's address turns out to be fake, and Anderson and Sanders come to conclusion that Nick is missing. The Illusive Man orders Leng to steal Paul Grayson's body and begin observing Anderson and Sanders; their recent activities on the Citadel have drawn unwelcome attention to Cerberus. Elsewhere in the galaxy, the batarian slave ship Glory of Khar'shan attacks the quarian ship Idenna, carrying Gillian Grayson and Hendel Mitra, who are part of the ship's security team. When the batarians disable the Idenna's drives and board it, Gillian and Mitra help defend the ship. With Gillian's help, the quarians gain the upper hand and charge onto the Glory of Khar'shan. One of the ship's freed slaves is Hal McCann, a former Cerberus operative who worked on the space station where Paul Grayson had been experimented on with Reaper technology. McCann keeps this fact to himself, but does tell Gillian that her father had been killed and persuades her that information on who killed her father could be found on the Citadel. Deciding to track down her father's killer, Gillian commandeers the Glory of Khar'shan and brings Mitra and McCann with her. Anderson and Sanders find a message from Nick at their apartment. Nick explains that he left to join a group known as the Biotic Underground that advocates biotic supremacy over all of the galaxy's races. Anderson uses contacts in C-Sec to dig up info on where Nick had gone. Response to the novel has been very negative, prompting many fans to petition BioWare to disregard the novel as canon. Some fans resorted to crowd-sourced fact- checking and created Google Docs files highlighting scores of continuity errors, and a fan uploaded a video of themselves burning a copy of the novel on the internet. That same day, BioWare staff member Chris Priestly posted a message on the official forums with an apology to fans as follows [8] :. The teams at Del Rey and BioWare would like to extend our sincerest apologies to the Mass Effect fans for any errors and oversights made in the recent novel Mass Effect: Deception. We are currently working on a number of changes that will appear in future editions of the novel. Kirk Hamilton from Kotaku and Purchese both noted that the novel's publishers, and the game's creators vowed to essentially patch the book and fixing those errors in the next print run. Tom Dowd highlighted the controversy over Deception's continuity errors when discussing BioWare's difficulty with cross- property continuity in his book Storytelling Across Worlds: Transmedia for Creatives and Producers , noting that it was embarrassing for BioWare as they were positioning themselves in the video game industry as a developer "who is all about storytelling". Dowd noted that fans may quickly lose faith when they perceive that producers of the material are not taking continuity seriously, which implies a lack of respect for the intellectual property. He argued that "Continuity maintenance is mandatory for a transmedia storytelling property, and sometimes requires going to great efforts to ensure". And you know you're in trouble when Penny Arcade cares: BioWare's r There are so many errors in this book that a fan-created Google document was started to list them. We would like to thank all Mass Effect fans for their passion and dedication to this ever-growing world, and assure them that we are listening and taking this matter very seriously. View all 58 comments. Leading up to the release of this book, I re-read all three of Drew Karpyshyn's novels. I've always enjoyed them in the past, and so I wanted to see the story continue. I was mildly concerned when I saw that Karpyshyn had moved on, but William C. Dietz had a decent track record, so I figured this book would probably turn out okay. Boy, was I mistaken. As soon as I opened the book, I could tell something was wrong. I like quality writing, but I'm usually able to enjoy pretty much anything. Unfortu Leading up to the release of this book, I re-read all three of Drew Karpyshyn's novels. Unfortunately the writing in this book is of extremely poor quality. In places it makes it very hard to get through. The language is sloppy, the narrative is very confused, and it's full of poor grammar. Now if this was all that was wrong with the book, I supposed I would dock it a few points and leave it at that. But this is tie-in fiction. That's where it's biggest weakness comes into play. As I read through the book, I became more and more confused. The problem is simple: the book appears to have been written by someone who had no knowledge of the previous three books, or the subject matter in general. The timeline is impossible to reconcile with the other books. Numerous terms are misused. Characters lose important traits, and act out of character at seemingly every point. The book is full of these issues. It's very hard to understand how they made their way through quality control. Even setting these problems aside, the book has little to offer. The characters, both returning and new, are flat and uninteresting. The audience is asked to accept as fact various things that seems to make little sense. All in all, I'm extremely disappointed. Anyone who enjoyed the previous three books is going to be sorely disappointed when they reach the end of this installment. It really is a shame, because the series once held such promise. I hope this review is helpful in making an informed decision. There are also various excerpts available online, and I urge you to read them for yourself, so you can see the issues I've detailed, before committing your hard-earned cash to purchasing this book. Feb 07, Ginta rated it did not like it. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. The only major outcome that occurs in Deception is that the three characters previously created in the novel Ascension - Gillian, Hendel, and Nick - are all randomly killed off at the very end for no other purpose other than to erase their existence from the Mass Effect universe. Other than that, nothing matters in this novel to the plot of the Mass Effect series, NOTHING - Anderson and Kahlee make no progress into investigating either Cerberus or the Reapers, the Council still actively dismisses the existence of the Reapers, there is no mention of the events of Arrival or the escalating tensions between the Alliance and the batarians over it, there is no active effort by Cerberus into any of their secret projects This is no "lead-in" to the Mass Effect 3 video game, as some of the game developers previously claimed It's utterly pointless, a waste of the trees used to make the paper to print this worthless book and a waste of the time and energy of anyone who bothers to read through it from start to finish. If you're a fan of science fiction, there is literally an infinite selection of better novels out there that are worth your time. If you're a fan of Mass Effect and its lore Jul 27, Jason rated it it was ok. I have confidence in Mr. Dietz, and I'm willing to excuse some inaccuracies in Mass Effect lore, so after finishing "Mass Effect: Retribution", I turned my attention to "Deception". Summary Picking up where "Retribution" left off, David Anderson and Kahlee Sanders have finally started a real relationship after fifteen or twenty years holding off, and report the Reaper corruption of Paul Grayson to the Citadel Council. Their claims are dismissed though one alien ambassador is interested in further investigation , and they turn their attention to tracking down two teenager biotics people who can mentally manipulate mass effect fields, giving them superpowers. The first is Nick, one of Kahlee's students from the Ascension Project who has fallen in with the Biotic Underground which seeks to supplant all authority with biotics , and Gillian Grayson, the daughter of Paul Grayson. After spending time in virtual exile among the quarians, Gillian has returned to track down and kill the man who destroyed her father, the mysterious leader of the pro-human terrorist organization Cerberus, the Illusive Man. However, I could overlook them for an engaging story and interesting characters. Until the last quarter of this book, it unfortunately does not deliver. Most of the characters are either stupid and annoying teenagers who run off to do stupid things without a lot of prior exposition to establish their motives, other ideas they have, etc. The villains Kai Leng and the Illusive Man are the most engaging, but I don't think the reader is supposed to cheer for them. The story isn't bad, but it takes a long time to go anywhere and it's hard to tell what exactly is going through the heads of the main characters particularly Anderson and Kahlee. Anderson even forgets about the thing that drives him through the video games and is reminded by a phone call that wakes him up near the end. There are people who have accused Dietz of just collecting a paycheck the technical execution of this book is deplorable , and others who have wondered if he was just in over his head playing with someone else's toys and not knowing what he was doing. I don't know what the situation was, but I do know that he is better than this. I don't like trashing anyone's work, and I've tried to keep that attitude out of both my reading and this review. The low grade I've given this book should be considered an honest evaluation from a fan of science fiction including some of his other books , and a challenge for him to rebound and produce something great. Assuming the Mass Effect property isn't closed now that the third game has been released, and that Drew Karpyshyn won't return for another novel he left BioWare and is working on his own projects , I am thinking that they will need to think long and hard about any further books, who should write them, what they should be about, and the process of editing and cleaning up a final product before publication. As is, this book is an unfortunate low-point for the Mass Effect series, currently a low ending for the series of novels, and a low-point for Mr. I would like to see all three come roaring back. Dietz can write interesting characters I still frequently think of Poseen-ka from "Legion of the Damned" , but everyone in this book was someone else's creation and it shows. Some characters are violated. Gillian goes from a twelve-year old girl suffering from autism to an eighteen-year old brat in just two years going through a severe temper tantrum, and Hendel Mitra is transformed from a take-charge, can-do guy to a meathead and also seems to have become heterosexual after his time spent with the quarians in "Retribution". Kai Leng, though initially out-of-character, quickly returns to form and is humanized in good ways. Unfortunately, one good character in a book swimming with shallow and bad ones just isn't enough. PACE: 2 out of 5 The first half of this book was slow. Anderson and Kahlee kind of fumble around while worrying about the Reapers and then losing the teenage kid in their charge Nick. Hendel Mitra and Gillian Grayson show up for a short reunion, Kai Leng gets the exciting job of recovering a dead body, etc. Halfway through the book, once everyone is on Omega and plotting against each other, things pick up. Different motivations and reasons bring the characters together, but most of it doesn't work for me. Two rebellious, annoying teenagers seem to be at the core of everyone's concern, and that bothers me. The Reapers you know, the threat to all advanced civilizations in the galaxy that Anderson has been fighting against in one form or another for half of his life are barely mentioned, and there are boring tasks galore for characters to complete. By the end of the book, things have picked up. The Biotic Underground has angered the powerful criminal queen of a lawless asteroid habitat even while they target the Illusive Man and the Cerberus pro-human terrorist group for termination overreaching on their part, but intriguing , a dangerous Cerberus operative is captured, and some interesting things do happen. In the end, the big "deception" lasts a couple of paragraphs, and the lead-up to it was only five or ten pages. The numerous smaller deceptions through the book don't necessarily justify the title. Anderson and Kahlee are boring and feel like they're just going through the motions interludes of "domestic" conversation between them are almost painful , Gillian and Nick the two teenagers are just annoying, and Hendel Mitra lacks any wisdom in his words, regardless of his actions, past experience, etc. Kai Leng the Cerberus operative , the Illusive Man, and Aria T'Loak the criminal mastermind of Omega have better dialogue probably because they're also the more interesting characters , though they still don't seem to totally match with the dialogue in video games and previous books. Sentences end in strange places. Others begin in stranger places. But others still end in strange places. Several parts felt refined and well done, and then it would abruptly switch to "first draft" mode. I doubt the author is to be blamed, but unfortunately I can't really rate "editing" or "editor's work". In a final read-through, Dietz should have caught these things and asked his editor, "What is anyone paying you for? Feb 01, Susan Lulgjuraj rated it did not like it. Video gamers can live in their own world, falling in love with characters and making choices that effect the direct outcome. Not all video games are like that, but the Mass Effect series is. The Mass Effect series is it's own world where fans of the games can dive into this sci-fi universe with comics and books as well, helping paint a picture of a battle that is about to commence in the third video game. As one of the people who fell in love with Mass Effect, I've read the books, bought the comi Video gamers can live in their own world, falling in love with characters and making choices that effect the direct outcome. As one of the people who fell in love with Mass Effect, I've read the books, bought the comics and even have a lithograph or two decorating the walls. The story behind the video game series was well thought out and gives the gamer a chance to play the hero of the story as a male or female while trying to save the universe from utter destruction from an ancient species whose main goal is to wipe out the existence of the current alien races, including humans. Mass Effect: Deception by William C. Dietz who has written other video game genre books is the fourth book in the series. Dietz has taken over the series from Drew Karpyshyn who wrote the first three books. The first three books offered a gap between games, a way to fill in the time line of things doing on that didn't surround Commander Shephard, the hero of the video games. This book did not feel like a lead-in to the third game, which is due out in March. The latest book didn't offer much in the way a gap because it didn't offer an explanation of time, but that wasn't the biggest problem. For the most part, the people reading are fans of the series. They are going to know the history of the Mass Effect inside and out. So you cannot have someone write a book who hasn't done research or doesn't stay true to the characters. It seems as though Dietz made up things about the Mass Effect universe he didn't know about. Characters were changed to fit the book without remarking on a history that has already been established. Gilliam Grayson, who was said to be high-functioning autistic, has suddenly become an year-old woman who has no societal problems. A homosexual character suddenly found himself ogling women. The lore of Mass Effect seemingly changed with Dietz's book. How bad was it? A Google document was created citing the 80 or so errors on lore, timeline and continuity. Then, just a few days ago, this announcement was released by in the BioWare — the company who created Mass Effect — Community forum. We have been listening and have the below response on the issue. The teams at Del Rey and BioWare would like to extend our sincerest apologies to the Mass Effect fans for any errors and oversights made in the recent novel Mass Effect: Deception. We are currently working on a number of changes that will appear in future editions of the novel. There is a wiki page set up for Mass Effect that includes the lore from multiple of outlets. The book was disappointing from that standpoint because it didn't seem to ever fit into the Mass Effect world except that characters with the same names were in it. Mass Effect fans should not get this book. But instead read the wiki page with the summary. But in reality, nothing happens in this book worthy any great significance, which was another problem. The council still doesn't believe the Reapers are a threat and there was no new information on The Illusive Man. Patches work well in video games, but not sure how well a patch can fix up this book. Read more at WordsbySooz. Oct 27, Sesana marked it as dnf-or-not-gonna-happen. I am a huge, huge fan of Mass Effect, and I've really enjoyed the tie ins that I've read to this point. The first three novels were all written by Drew Karpyshyn, who wrote for the games. The two that I've read so far were solid stories that fit into the established ME universe. I hate to say that I wouldn't trust this novel, written by William C. Dietz, with a ten foot pole But I wouldn't touch this book with a ten foot pole if you paid me. Obviously, Dietz took this assignment without knowin I am a huge, huge fan of Mass Effect, and I've really enjoyed the tie ins that I've read to this point. Obviously, Dietz took this assignment without knowing anything in the slightest about Mass Effect, and never took the time to learn. It shows, painfully. Others have done a very throrough job of documenting the errors, so I won't get into details. Most of the errors are "just" major research errors into the ME canon, but it gets worse. And honestly, just plain offensive. Offensive like a character previously established as gay and the only unambiguously and openly gay character in the ME universe being made straight. Or a character who had been diagnosed with autism being described as having problems as an adolescent that she grew out of. How bad is it really? So bad that Del Rey and Bioware issued an official apology and promised to edit the errors out of future editions of the book. But that would essentially require re-writing the entire thing, and Bioware doesn't always fix what it says it'll fix anyways. The safest bet is to just pretend the book doesn't exist. View all 4 comments. Jan 31, Derschreiber rated it did not like it. Mass Effect Deception is the worst book out of the series of novels. The setting is mishandled completely. It feels as if the author has no sense of this universe or the people who live in them. There are dozens of errors with the lore including: characters who are alive who should be dead, timeline errors that make characters older than they should be, changes a major character's sexuality, deems autism something to be grown out of, the very nature of several alien species, and more. If you are i Mass Effect Deception is the worst book out of the series of novels. If you are interested and want a full list of errors in this novel just run a search for the Mass Effect: Deception Discussion Thread. At the same time characters act laughably about of character and the ending is very rushed. I would urge anyone who enjoys prose and Mass Effect to avoid this novel at all costs. May 26, Ana marked it as dropped Shelves: I've read the first three Mass Effect books by Drew Karpyshyn , and while they may not have been spectacular examples of stellar writing, the storytelling was great, the plots were great, the character development was GREAT , and I just generally loved all three of them! I enjoyed expanding my canon knowledge and getting to know some characters way better than the games allowed, and, well, yeah. I'm a huge Mass Effect fan. Which is why the possibility of this fourth book suddenly not by Karpyshyn, but by William C. Dietz being terrible wasn't something I was willing to consider, even after accidentally stumbling upon some really bad reviews, and I'm still adamant about giving it the fairest of chances. I am probably going to spoil something, I'm not even going to try not to. So please, please, please stop reading now if you don't want this book spoiled for you. I will not focus on Dietz's writing style, even though it doesn't sit quite well with me Volus being described as roly- poly? Are we 6? Here goes nothing. I mean: My Shepard's skintone is the darkest available in the character creator and look how similar hers and Anderson's are: Olive-coloured skin my arse. Feb 01, Mark rated it it was ok Shelves: owned. A lot of people hate this book for making a series of errors with the Mass Effect universe and the characters that populate it. While I still noticed these errors, and certainly don't approve, I went into this book knowing those errors were there. As a result of this foreknowledge, I believe I was able to distil the essence of the story out and read a version of the book that wasn't on the page. That being said, the story was merely okay; not bad, but not good either. The writing was decent at par A lot of people hate this book for making a series of errors with the Mass Effect universe and the characters that populate it. The writing was decent at parts, and made me cringe in others: the whole opening where it seems the characters manage to run into a paragraph description of every race imaginable within the span of about 4 pages almost made me put the book down. But it was Mass Effect goddammit, and I was going to hold the line. Then the characters manage to run into almost every possible key location in the Mass Effect universe. But still, I held the line. Perhaps it was my hunger for more Mass Effect that made me finish the book, but reading it in public made me feel ashamed. I hear that there are plans to release a "second edition" of the book with the aforementioned errors rectified, but I doubt that will be enough to make me want to read it again. In my memories, I will only look back on this book for certain key points that I can take with me as canon in the Mass Effect universe. Even though these events likely will only be mentioned in passing in upcoming Mass Effect stories. In short, it's a merely okay book. Not terribly well written, the story isn't nearly as good as in the previous 3 books, and certainly not as good as in the games , but it's possibly not the utter waste of wood pulp that people seem to think it is. Mar 28, Sassa Mifrass rated it it was ok. First ME book not written by D. So, Dietz had that disadvantage going in. Sadly, this book really does not compare favourably with the first three. Criticisms about this book's gaping plot holes and inconsistent characterisation certainly weren't unfounded. Deception breaks the timeline established by the previous novels, and there's a number of other significant errors which others have already noted in their reviews. Kahlee and Anderson were particularly out of synch with their established cha First ME book not written by D. Kahlee and Anderson were particularly out of synch with their established characters. And the less said about Hendel And there was one paragraph that was recycled verbatim from a few chapters earlier, which I'm leaning towards the latter :P That said, the over-arching plot was fine. I did go into this knowing there were errors but hoping to just get a tiny bit more ME given I've finished the games and all other ME media. Unlike other reviewers I don't regret reading it, especially seeing it only took a day to finish. It's just clearly not written by someone involved in the ME universe, and it clearly wasn't edited by someone who was, either. It does seem like BW or EA is doing their best to just crank these things out as quickly as possible for maximum cash-in value, without engaging in the quality control and peer review the actual games were subject to for the most part. Also, I understand the need to not impact on ME3's 'canon' although I hear BW has been quoted as saying there is no 'canon' Shepard it seemed a bit of a waste to kill some of the characters they did. It would have been interesting to see what those characters would have gotten up to during the events of ME Hard to believe, but I have actually read worse. Which is why this book isn't getting the one star treatment from me that many other reviewers have chosen to give. But I'm probably being generous. After all, I was aware of the many errors and lore screw-ups that exist in this book, but I mostly chose to ignore them as I was reading. Granted, I give you that there were a few glaring, unforgivable mistakes. But quite honestly? You probably won't even notice most of them unless you're a hardcore Mas Hard to believe, but I have actually read worse. You probably won't even notice most of them unless you're a hardcore Mass Effect fan going over the book line-by-line with a fine toothed comb. And a lot of them are so trivial that it makes no difference to the story anyway. I had the added benefit of reading the previous ME books a while ago, long enough for me to not remember the finer details anyway. As such, I was willing to let a lot of the errors slide. Errors aside, this book was just pretty bad. Mostly because it's poorly written, at least in my opinion. After all, how could a book with this much action in it yet be so boring? The writing is dry, unimaginative, unsophisticated, crude, clumsy. It's like Dietz barely even tried. To me, that's the biggest departure from the previous ME novels written by Drew Karpyshyn. At least you could tell DK cared about the IP; it's in the way he built up the world in the first three books, and in the manner he treated and developed his characters. In any case, I found myself constantly drifting off while I was trying to get through this book, and was relieved when it was finally over. The way it went, I couldn't have cared enough to spot many of the lore mistakes while I was reading anyway, as I was too busy trying to stay awake. View 2 comments. Jan 24, Keith rated it liked it. I'd heard about the fan rage against this book long before sitting down to read it, and as someone who read the first 3 and happily enjoyed this one I'm really not sure what all the fuss is about. Sure there are inconsistencies with the previous lore, and it doesn't feel quite as authentically ME as the others so it would have been nice to have had Karpyshyn continue things. But I can't say any of that brought me out in hives or caused me to lose any sleep. The way people are reacting it's as if I'd heard about the fan rage against this book long before sitting down to read it, and as someone who read the first 3 and happily enjoyed this one I'm really not sure what all the fuss is about. The way people are reacting it's as if William C. Dietz ate their first-born child and then pooped on their carpet. It's the ugly side of fandom, and reeks of the sense of entitlement that lead to people throwing their toys out the pram about the ending to ME3 just because they didn't have the sense or imagination to enjoy it fully. That nerd rage resulted in a tacked on inferior ending with talked down to us and made a point of spelling out every little thing that anyone with any intelligence or imagination drew their own conclusions on after a bit of thought and discussion anyway. But I digress massively, sorry! My point is chill out. Ignore the things you don't like or that niggle you and enjoy it for what it is, a welcome addition to the ME universe. It's not the best ME product out there, but it's not worth throwing a tantrum over either. I liked it. View 1 comment. Mar 04, William Ristau rated it it was amazing. Gillian finds out that her father was killed and is looking for Kahlee and Anderson for help. She tells them what happened with the quarian flotilla. Gillian finds out that the Illusive man killed her father. She wants to kill the Illusive man, so she joins the biotic underground. They set up a meeting with the Illusive man for a trade. They wanted to give money for their agent Kai Leng, to get him back. Kahlee Sanders is a lead scientist of humanity. Hendel is the security chief for the Ascensio Gillian finds out that her father was killed and is looking for Kahlee and Anderson for help. Hendel is the security chief for the Ascension project. Gillian is a young girl with a lot of potential for harnessing her biotic powers. Anderson is one of the top military soldiers for humanity. Nick is also a biotic, from the Grayson Academy. Abandoned mining world in the Crescent Nebula is one of the settings in the story. Another takes place at the Citadel and thats where all the species meet with really important information of what's going on. Another takes place on Omega which is a crime world with no police. This takes place in the year I think ages should read this book. Both genders can read the book. It was a very interesting. This was filled with adventure and action. Mar 24, Samantha rated it liked it Shelves: add-ons-spin-offs , reviewed , fantasy-lands , movie-videogame , space. I was really excited about reading this book. Ive never played the games, but have a friend who does and is pretty into it so I figured Id give it a shot. At thebeginning I was having a lot of fun with it. Seeing all the schemes and plots of opposing forces come to fruition and collide. Very fun I dont wanna ruin the book for anyone, but seriously? That was it? Let's just erase all the heard work we did and take a bajillion steps backward. And those Reapers menti Hmm And those Reapers mentioned at the beginning? Nonexistant and only mentioned sparsely. Lots of action sequences and tracking people and spying on them, but not nearly enough for me to be happy with the ending. Is this how they get money? Start a series and then erase all the work started throughout th ebook so youre forced to get whatever they comeup with next? I enjoyed the book for the most part, but the end Im not fully satisfied. And at onepoint after I finished it A perfect example of fan exploitation. The glaring inconsistencies in this book are beyond reconcilable. The errors not only go against the details of a rich, expansive universe, but against basic timeline and plot elements established in previous books. Any avid reader, despite their knowledge of Mass Effect, would note the disparity between this and previous novels. From characters aging years in a matter of months, dead characters reprising their role, and fundamental values of characters bein A perfect example of fan exploitation. From characters aging years in a matter of months, dead characters reprising their role, and fundamental values of characters being rewritten or ignored, Mass Effect: Deception undoes almost 5 years of work in a mere pages. Despite the author's shortcomings, the real fault lies with those who edited and reviewed the work prior to release. It is an insult that a company would consider this fodder sufficient for fans of Mass Effect. This book has no target market; it is not for casual sci-fi readers, it is not for fans of the author, and it is most certainly not for fans of Mass Effect. Mar 13, Tom Attard rated it did not like it. So how much should you expect from a genre book based on a game franchise? The allure for the game for me was always the story elements, so I gave the novels a go and was pleasantly surprised by the earlier books. Deception however, is just abysmally written trash. Well written characters and plots can give a sense of suspense or excitement because they engage the reader enough to have a feel for struggle or triumph or heartache that will evolve from relationships and events. Lacking any of So how much should you expect from a genre book based on a game franchise? Lacking any of that depth, Dietz resorts to explaining, almost in dot point fashion, the details of each scene. The writing is stilted, and the continuous battery of endless short sentences becomes almost painful. The end result is a book that detracts from, rather than enriches, the world in which it is set. Apr 30, T. Carper rated it liked it Shelves: media-tie-in. Kind of a downer of a novel and a different style of writing compared to the other books different author than first three - mainly because of the headers constantly stating where the characters are. Feb 10, Brian marked it as so-bad-ill-never-read-it. I will not give a rating to this book--it is evidently a piece of utter, utter shit, and one only has to read the reviews both here and on Amazon to see why. I am in fact writing this review for a purpose much broader and more entertaining than that: I am going to express my intense loathing of William Dietz as a writer, and hope--just hope--that this article gets read by a larger audience. Dietz is a hack: a big, pompous, self-aggrandizing hack who has spent far too long passing as a decent I will not give a rating to this book--it is evidently a piece of utter, utter shit, and one only has to read the reviews both here and on Amazon to see why. Dietz is a hack: a big, pompous, self-aggrandizing hack who has spent far too long passing as a decent writer of video-game novel adaptions and who is only now being seen for the complete, utter, atrocious example of a hack that he truly is. When he isn't writing video game fiction of such odious quality as were both this adaption or the one I was unlucky enough to read, he is writing other works of such low quality that they commonly get one-star reviews on Amazon, where this review from Publisher's Weekly can be found, regarding his book Deathday : view spoiler [ [P]aranoids, take note. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth. Several nations fire missiles at each other, not noticing colossal extraterrestrial spaceships hovering over the planet neither does any astronomer. The huge, insect-like Saurons, nicknamed "chits" for their chitinous shells, kill billions. They enslave the survivors to construct "temples" that they claim will be a path to "a planet named Paradise" but are actually hatcheries where adult Saurons die giving birth. The invaders drop leaflets with instructions to bring them to "any Sauron-sponsored processing center and receive six cans of Spam," a courtesy possibly in response to human spacecraft offering galactic friendship. A plaque from Pioneer Ten, launched in , served as "a space- going road map, pointing right at Earth. So those UFOs were real after all. The book abounds in racial hatreds at the same time that it high- mindedly condemns them. The action constant, confusing, deadening and dull abruptly halts, mid-slaughter, to announce, heroically, "the countdown continues" in a sequel slated for Be patient. My point is that, though it was partly Bioware's fault for approving this piece of shit--just as it was the fault of Insomniac for publishing the novel I read--there is much in this matter that should be blamed entirely on Mr. Dietz himself. I do not wish any ill on Mr. Dietz--since I have never met him, I shall assume nothing about his personality--but, I sincerely hope that, now that this man has screwed up so disastrously on this novel, he will be rightly shunned by every publisher with access to a profitable market and will need to go into another line of work--preferably a profitable one not having anything to do with creative writing of any sort. Perhaps it is likely that my wish will come true--Mass Effect fans surely would agree with me that it should--but even if not, there is one good thing that has resulted from this: now that I know that this man is perhaps the ultimate example of bad writing in video game adaptions, it makes me wonder as to whether other writers may actually be decent. I will have to see Oct 20, Michael rated it it was amazing. ​Mass Effect: Deception on Apple Books

Last Edited: 1 Feb pm. Jacket Summary Loading. This places the two in danger, as Cerberus does anything it can to keep its secrets hidden. David and Kahlee form an allegiance with Gillian Grayson, whom has extraordinary powers due to scientific experiments. She learns that Cerberus was responsible for her father's death, and swears revenge against David, Kahlee, and The Illusive-Man Was this guide helpful? YES NO. In This Wiki Guide. Summary: As Commander Shepard, an Alliance Marine, your only hope for saving mankind is to rally the civilizations of the galaxy and launch one final mission to take back the Earth in this third entry in the epic intergalactic RPG franchise. Genres: RPG. But in so doing they have exposed the machinations of Cerberus, a secretive paramilitary organization, and its mysterious leader, the Illusive Man—putting David and Kahlee in mortal danger, for Cerberus will stop at nothing to protect its secrets. But along the way, they find an unlikely ally in Gillian Grayson, a young woman with extraordinary powers. Once the subject of horrifying scientific experiments, Gillian is now free—and beginning to master her deadly abilities. But after learning that Cerberus was responsible for the death of her father, Gillian swears vengeance against the group and the Illusive Man—threatening to unravel everything Kahlee and David are fighting for. I am a big fan of Mass Effect. I loved the first three books. I wasn't sure if this book was going to be good due to a different author writing it. Over all, it was an ok read. To be honest, I was intrigued and interested in the beginning of this book. But sadly I was disappointed towards the end. It seemed like the writer got lazy. It would be great if Drew Karpyshyn wrote this book instead. I'll put it simply, the story is so full of errors you'd think a child wrote it. I don't think Mr. Dietz knows anything about Mass Effect beyond the generic descriptions found on Wikipedia. This book has no business being considered Mass Effect canon. Do yourself a favor and avoid this garbage. This book, if it can be called that, is an awful thing. The author obviously has no respect for the series or its fans.

Mass Effect: Deception (Mass Effect, #4) by William C. Dietz

Jacket Summary Loading. This places the two in danger, as Cerberus does anything it can to keep its secrets hidden. David and Kahlee form an allegiance with Gillian Grayson, whom has extraordinary powers due to scientific experiments. She learns that Cerberus was responsible for her father's death, and swears revenge against David, Kahlee, and The Illusive-Man Was this guide helpful? YES NO. In This Wiki Guide. Once the subject of horrifying scientific experiments, Gillian is now free—and beginning to master her deadly abilities. But after learning that Cerberus was responsible for the death of her father, Gillian swears vengeance against the group and the Illusive Man— threatening to unravel everything Kahlee and David are fighting for. I am a big fan of Mass Effect. I loved the first three books. I wasn't sure if this book was going to be good due to a different author writing it. Over all, it was an ok read. To be honest, I was intrigued and interested in the beginning of this book. But sadly I was disappointed towards the end. It seemed like the writer got lazy. It would be great if Drew Karpyshyn wrote this book instead. I'll put it simply, the story is so full of errors you'd think a child wrote it. I don't think Mr. Dietz Best Seller. Jan 31, ISBN Add to Cart. Also available from:. Available from:. Paperback —. Also in Mass Effect. Also by William C. See all books by William C. About William C. Dietz William C. Product Details. Inspired by Your Browsing History. Gears of War: Anvil Gate. Karen Traviss. The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle. Ship of Fools. Richard Paul Russo. If at First. Short Story. Peter F. Uncharted: The Fourth Labyrinth. Christopher Golden. Misspent Youth. The Dreaming Stars. Del Rey and Bantam Books Sampler. Star Wars Del Rey Sampler. Dawson , Chuck Wendig and Claudia Gray.

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