City of the Gods by Sonny WhitelawMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is a neat interesting book that corresponded well with the television series. The characters seemed to match up with what I remember (though it has been a while since I last watch an episode).
This one has a neat little twist - includes a different area of the world with a different set of aliens. Good use of Aztec, Mayans and Mesoamerican culture.
The only real thing that 'dragged' on me was the part where every one of the main characters were constantly thinking about some depressing situation that had occurred sometime before this book, and how each negative thing that occurred to them in this book kept reminding them of that 'thing'. The constant repetition of that theme might have annoyed me anyway, but my main problem with it is that I had no clue what they were whimpering about. Apparently there was some occasion when both Jack and Sam were taken over by . . . well, it gets confusing, I think both good and bad Go’ould (however that is spelled), and the bad tortured them with the memories of the good; while at the same time eating human meat . . . or something? Like that? The other two main characters were also depressed with deep bitter thoughts, but I forget now what they had been obsessed with.
Right, so, good book.
but but, what’s the book about? Well, to remind myself later: book opens with Sam giving a report in the Pentagon about a mission that went wrong – which ended with all of SG-1 (but her, obviously) dying. Then book moved out of the prologue and back to that mission.
1) Some professor guy who Daniel never really liked has contacted Daniel about some ‘symbols’ that the archaeologist had found on a dig in Mexico City region. And he wants to compare the symbols with a book that Daniel’s uncle and written (was Daniel’s uncle a character on the show? I don’t remember him). Daniel agrees to visit the professor on site with a copy of the book. Teal’c goes along because he doesn’t want to go fishing with O’Neil (a reoccurring theme on the show – O’Neil wanting people to go fishing with him and how no one wanted to do so – I feel sad, poor O’Neil, no one wanted to be his friend (what, fishing mostly involves sitting around drinking beer and bullshitting in an interesting often picturesque setting)).a) Turns out that the professor had found a crystal skull, the same type the uncle had found. It is stated in a way that makes it appear not to be a spoiler, but I’ll put behind spoiler tags anyway - (view spoiler)
b) Teal’c and Daniel go on an off-world adventure by themselves.
2) Jack and Sam go with another SG team to help remove two injured members on a particular moon and also to retrieve their equipment. A volcano explodes. The uninhabited moon might not be uninhabited.
3) Eventually the entire SG-1 team ends up on the same moon. Stuff happens. People feared dead. Etc.
Rating: 4.38
May 4 2017
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