Product Description

Caught in the depths of their strange new world, Mo¹ Steel and Billy Weir encounter a lost Remnant, Kubric DiSalvo. Unfortunately, the ship has transformed him, replacing his skin with a transparent plastic coating. Scared and awed by the ship¹s vicious power, the group tries to rejoin heir friends. Meanwhile, the other Remnants are in danger in another stratum of the ship: Yago and Jobs are stuck in a computer-generated sea battle. When the groups meet, Billy finds he can communicate with the ship¹s core. Will his strange past help him to understand ­ or even control ­ the ship in time to save everyone?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #428599 in Books
• Published on: 2002-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 164 pages

Customer Reviews

Interesting, if lacking direction.
From the first page - on which the somewhat disgusting and definitely unique mutation on the cover is described - onward my full opinion of the series of events consisted of one word: "What???" With event after event and plot twist after plot twist, I found myself at the end of a somewhat short novel in a completely different state of mind than at the beginning. The characters are killed off or changed dramatically with each chapter - which does, if not anything else, make for an interesting story. All the characters have been developed wonderfully (or horribly, depending on your point of view) and the "good guys" and "bad guys" aren't as clear as they seemed to be in Book 1. There was much too little of Tamara and her baby - especially after the past few books have brought interesting foreshadowing and info about them - but I suppose that's what more books are for. The books never focus on one character or situation in particular, which makes a confusing web of different paths, and no clear direction. The end...well...for the sake of not revealing too much, I'll just say the end was a strange way to pull things together. Off to wait impatiently for book 6. . . :)

Better, but still the same.
Well, well, well. Where have I seen Remnants 5 Mutation before? Perhaps disguised as Remnants 4 Nowhere Land and Remnants 3 Them. The themes are the same. We start out, explaining what happened as the previous one came to a finale. Then the book starts moving onward, continuously gaining steam as it heads towards its last three or four chapter slam bang finish. Then all the action is calmed, and we get a picture of what is to come in the next book. Basically, the themes are becoming the same in each book. However, there is so much happening, and so much new discovery that the book becomes enjoyable, but it doesn't take a keen eye to see that this is nothing new. So, while the series is good, shocking, exciting, stunning, and confusing it still manages to be presentable. Hopefully, K. A. Applegate will try something new as this series marches onward, or else seeing the same review printed by me every two months may become something people will have to get used to.

The struggle continues...
Billy and Mo'Steel have been separated from the rest of the group and are trapped in the basement of what seems to be the ship. There they meet two Remnants, Alberto and his son Kubrick. Kubrick, however, has gone through a strange mutation that makes him into a living, breathing monster or whatever you'd like to call it. The four struggle with another dangerous environment below and find a surprising discovery, Mother.

Jobs, 2Face, Yago, and the rest of the Remnants are still trapped on the Constitution and time is running out because the ship is capsizing fast. Not only that but British war ships are attacking them all at the same time. Can Billy, the kid who stayed awake for 500 years, help save them? Can he beat Mother at a mind game that he can't even control?

This was another edge of your seat edition ofr Remnants where more weird thing happened that at times were confusing. The switching from node to node made things even more complicated. Still this book overall was pretty good. Can't wait for the rest of the Remnants books.