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Title: Death Row by Jaid Black ISBN: 1-84360-367-5 Publisher: Ellora's Cave Publishing, Inc Pub. Date: January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (8 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Too short & too expensive
Comment: The only complaint I have is that it's too short and too expensive (hence my rating of 3 out of 5). I love the story about Kerick and Nellie but when I visited Ms. Black's web page, I found out that in the near future you can buy all three stories in one book...meaning one price. Bummer for all the Jaid Black fans who bought all three at an outragious price (me included):( Buyer beware, if you want to read this series (very good I might add) PLEASE WAIT UNTIL "THE DEATH ROW" 3-IN-1 BOOK.
Rating: 5
Summary: First of a Series
Comment: Death Row: The Fugitive begins the saga of a futuristic earth where science and bio-engineered humans are in the forefront and sub-humans run wild in the jungles, killing as monstrous animals to survive.
Kerick Riley has served over 15 years in a prison where he is slated to be executed. A prison that no one has ever escaped from before. But Kerick and fellow Death Row inmates Elijah and Xavier do escape and vow to finish their mission to assassinate those in the Hierarchy for their crimes against humanity.
Nellie Kan is a bio-engineered female scientist in a world where women are for pleasure and few are privileged enough to be allowed a career. Her life's work is perfecting a serum that will keep those humans infected from turning into sub-humans. This serum was began by Margaret Riley, Kerick's mother who succumbed to the infection herself.
Now Nellie faces danger from all directions. Many would kill for the serum yet Nellie must continue her work on it. She is abducted by Kerick who wants her for a mate and will stop at nothing to master her and claim her as his own. She must convince Kerick for the greater good of humanity that it is imperative she be allowed to finish the serum.
Faced with no choice Nellie escapes Kerick and must journey to the Underworld as Margaret Riley's journal leads her to either salvation or doom.
I am not a big fan of serials that do not tie the ends up in each volume and require the reader to wait for subsequent volumes to find out the answers. But Jaid Black has written the exception. This dark, satirical tale has subtle humor and fast-paced action in every chapter. The world of the future is male dominated and highly sexual with good versus evil blurring the lines and the consequences of man manipulating nature will hold readers in its grip till they read the sequels.
Rating: 4
Summary: Timeless Tales review
Comment: By TT reviewer Brenda Edde
Altun Ha, former Belize 2249 AD
Kong Penal Colony
Kerick Riley, the infamous Dr. Margaret Riley's son, has been in prison at the Kong Penal colony for 15 years, 7 months, 3 weeks and 5 days. Today was to be his execution day. His mother, however, taught him to control his mind and his body, and he learned his lessons well. He's been planning his escape for a long time and he won't be dying today. Kerik and his fellow prisoners and assassins, Elija and Xavier, will be escaping the mighty Kong prison instead of dying. Then they'll find out who really killed his mother and justice will be done.
Dr. Nellie Kan is a rarity in these times, an unclaimed female. Nellie is a scientist working to find a serum that will reverse the infection that has caused the mutation of humans into violent and deadly sub-human beings. Unbeknownst to anyone, she has a copy of Dr. Margaret Riley's journal, the famed scientist who had almost completed the serum when she died. Keeping her freedom to work on the serum is a daily battle in this world, where men outnumber the women because of a genetic manipulation started two hundred years ago. Now there are so few women that men have the right to claim any woman they can find, while women are forced to submit to and service any man who can keep her. Nellie plans on being the one to find the serum, help save the sub-humans and, in doing so, insuring her future freedom.
Is it irony or fate that leads Kerick to the same biosphere where Nellie works to look for information about his mother's killers? The lack of a woman's touch for 15 years and seeing the luscious Nellie fondled by her former mentor definitely leads to his kidnapping Nellie.
The first story in the Death Row trilogy is a fast paced trip through the year 2249, where genetic manipulation has caused major problems for both men and women. The questions regarding the doomed sub-humans and the dangers of living outside the biosphere in the jungle are riveting and bewildering. I was enthralled thru the whole story, trying desperately to figure out when the revelation would be made that both Nellie and Kerick were working towards the same goal. Alas, how that will be worked out has to wait for the sequel, Death Row: The Hunter.
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Title: Enslaved by Jaid Black ISBN: 0972437770 Publisher: Ellora's Cave Publishing, Inc Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: The Possession by Jaid Black ISBN: 0972437762 Publisher: Ellora's Cave Publishing, Inc Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Seized by Jaid Black ISBN: 0972437738 Publisher: Ellora's Cave Publishing, Inc Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.99 |
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Title: Death Row: The Avenger by Jaid Black ISBN: 1843604051 Publisher: Ellora's Cave Publishing, Inc Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
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Title: Oath of Challenge: Conquering Kate by Marly Chance ISBN: 097243772X Publisher: Ellora's Cave Publishing, Inc Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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