Sean Randall reviewed The shapechanger scenario by Simon Hawke (Psychodrome -- 2.)
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2 stars
If Hawke wasn't an author I'd already enjoyed, I would have regretted picking this book up - simply because the story is left even more wide open than at the end of the first novel. It also seems that the introduction of a new alien species herein serves a single, filling-wholes-in-the-plot purpose.
Still, the characters are well done, the dialogue snappy (if stilted in places and sometimes repetitive from the prior story) and the writing engaging. Despite this, a let-down - I'd call it OK at best.