On 2005-10-01 Geert Daelemans, Leuven Belgium wrote: Madeline Green, also known as Maj, is a member of the Group of Seven: a gathering of youngsters that enjoy creating virtual simulations of historic events. Maj has just finished her simulation of a 1964 bomber plane that originally crashed on its maiden voyage. She invites the Group of Seven to watch and judge her latest creation. But early in the simulation something goes dreadfully wrong: Maj is unable to control the plane and she crashes almost directly after take-off. When it becomes clear that Roddy, the super intelligent loner of the group, has sabotaged Maj´s simulation just to prove that he can, the group decides to teach Roddy a lesson. But this only inflames the situation: Roddy´s out for revenge.
It is difficult to make sense of the author´s decision to use the first quarter of One Is the Loneliest Number as a tedious description of a virtual simulation. Apart from a poor introduction of the main character is does not contain any information that tickles the curiosity of the reader. It is more than obvious that the simulation is going to crash, so building towards this is not adding much suspense to the story.
Luckily once this mind-numbing setting has been concluded the story really starts. The tone and rhythm completely change, another character is introduced in the form of Mark Grideley who immediately takes the lead and makes the character of Maj obsolete. It is as though the author realised his mistake and quickly took action to make the plot more exciting.
All considered this story turns out to be only a mediocre episode of the Netforce series, only to be read if you feel the urge to read the complete series.. And summed up by saying Tedious beginning, mediocre ending. Currently One Is the Loneliest Number (Tom Clancy´s Net Force; Young Adults, No. 3) has an overall rating of 8 over 10.
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