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This week I decided to review Pacific
Rim: Uprising: Ascension by Greg Keyes.
The main story begins with a new
class of cadets, pretty much all of those that appear in the movie Pacific Rim:
Uprising, arriving at the Moyulan Shatterdome to begin training. But soon after
they arrive, sabotage leads the pilots of the Jaeger Chronos Berserker to believe
they are fighting a Kaiju via a modified training simulation. In the end one of
the pilots is killed and the other badly injured.
The cadets had toured the Chronos Berserker shortly before
the disaster and investigators find a drive belonging to cadet Ou-Yang Jinhai.
As training continues Ou-Yang finds himself paired with fellow cadet Viktoria Malikova, who is also a suspect. Realizing they are
suspects they set out to try to discover the truth. Ou-Yang, who grew up in a
Shatterdome, realizes how the sabotage was carried out, but while investigating
to confirm his theory the two cadets are captured by agents of the Akumagami
Front, a Kaiju-worshipping cult. And soon the investigators at Moyulan realize
that the sabotage was just a distraction to allow the theft of information
needed to carry out a far more devastating attack…
The story also includes a number of flashbacks to earlier events
in the lives of Ou-Yang and Malikova as well as some to battles of the Kaiju
War.
I give this book 7.5 out of 10. I like getting to learn more
about the pasts and motivations of some of the characters and enjoyed getting
some more insights into Jaeger Technology and pilot training a lot. However, some
of the battle flashbacks are disjointed with several chapters between parts of
a battle and in one case with a flashback to another battle in the middle. This
made keeping track of what was happening in which fight annoying at times for
me. Also, there are a few too many parallels between the book’s plot and that of
Pacific Rim: Uprising for my tastes though the differences were enough to hold
my interest most of the time.
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