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Jake Ramsey -- an unassuming, yet talented archaeologist -- has been given the chance of a lifetime. Hired to investigate a recently unearthed Xel'Naga temple, he knows this latest assignment will open up whole new possibilities for his career. Yet, when Jake discovers the remains of a long-dead protoss mystic, his hopes and dreams are irrevocably drowned in a flood of alien memories. Bonded to the spirit of the dead protoss, Jake has become the sole inheritor of the protoss's total history -- every event, every thought -- every feeling.

** I will not include any major spoilers, but there may be some minor ones. **

I bought these books to learn more about the SC world. Many things in the games are not fully explained and I was hoping these novels would shed light on them. I was not disappointed. It was obviously written as a bridge between Brood War and SC2 and will explain a lot about the history of the Protoss and the Dark Templar. You'll learn a bit about the Xel'Naga (not that anyone really knows much about them) and be introduced to Valerian Mensk who will prove to be a major character in SC2: Wings of Liberty. Also, if you haven't played SC2 yet, a major theme of the game will be introduced.

Many characters from the games (mostly Protoss) are prominent figures and it is absolutely delightful to see them fleshed out as real people. The new characters are also wonderfully written and fit in well with the overall feel of the SC universe. A familiar villain from Brood War is back (no not just Kerrigan) but I will not say who. But it is great that you get to learn of his origins.

There is a very natural progression to each story. When I finished the trilogy it was almost amazing how far from the opening pages I had traveled. Yet it is very organic and smooth. Each book has its own identity but fits together into the trilogy perfectly. There is definite continuity between each book, but they still maintain their own distinction.

Overall you will learn a lot.. StarCraft is still a universe of mysteries, but enough is explained to leave you both satisfied and hungering for more. Each book leads directly into the next and could just as well be one massive book. It all concludes very well in the end, tying up every end it needs to while baiting you just enough to want to know more.

The author goes beyond knowing about StarCraft lore. She obviously knows her stuff and must have worked fairly close with Blizzard to make sure things were accurate. As a testament to her, she also authored 

Name: Jennifer Black
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great novel that ties into the game, but stands on its own
Date: Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2009
Review: Jake Ramsey was, through no fault of his own, condemned to digs set on backwater worlds with few amenities and less recognition. Then came a discovery that changed his life forever: a merging of consciousness with a Protoss who gave him powers beyond those of any human being before him; powers that would ruin his comfortable life and give him a new destiny.

This novel has an absolutely fantastic (and amazingly described) setting. I have never played any of the Starcraft games, nor did I know anything about them, but Ms. Golden has the wonderful gift of worldbuilding that allowed for the book to be original and self-explanatory while still, ostensibly, fitting into a pre-constructed universe. The audience should not suffer from any real moments of confusion on this front. We have a winning plot, too. It basically is constructed of two parallel-running threads, one in the "present", centered around Ramsey and his misadventures attempting to avoid becoming a scientific curiosity and test subject, and one that chronicles the origins of the alien Protoss, whose stories were "downloaded" into the archaeologist's mind (and from whose, "viewer" perspective it is revealed). The central plot is twisty and surprising, and deviously clever.

Ramsey is a great hero, paired with a supporting cast that brings out the best and worst in him; his emotions are clearly seen through his perspective, and the "alternate" perspectives of the Protoss in his mind are enlightening both in the audience's understanding of him and the rest of the cast.

This is a great first book in what promises to be an exciting trilogy. I look forward to reading the rest.

Name: Felipe Wirth
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title: An ok book, but nothing special...
Date: Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2012
Review: If you don't know what Starcraft is, if you hasn't spent hours sitting in front of a computer screen ordering Terran construction vehicles to harvest resources and build bunkers, then I pity you, I really do. It's a ridiculously fun game from Blizzard (which apparently co-authored this book according to Amazon, however strange that may sound) and it was a big part of my gaming childhood. Looking up books about Starcraft, it was only natural that my eyes were drawn in by the title: "Dark Templar: First Born". Now, how cool is that?

To start the proper review (and I do warn that there will probably be some spoilers in the following): There are no Dark Templars in this book. Yes, you've read it correctly. No Dark Templars in the first book of the Dark Templar trilogy. This whole book feels strange, and having just finished it, the reasons it monumentally fails are not yet fully clear in my mind. For starters, it has an interesting premise: A human archeologist, Jake Ramsey, has been hired by Valerius Mengsk (remember him?) to work on a misterious digsite. There he finds a dying protoss, and is flooded by the being's memories: the memories of the entire Protoss race. Now he is a fugitive from Mengsk and a number of mercenaries keen on exploring the contents of his brain. That amounts to about the first third of this book. The second part (until the 69% mark on my Kindle) contains nothing but memories from the primordial protoss civilization. The proto-protoss (see what I did there?), if you will. And while, to a Starcraft fan, this is all good and interesting, it still amounts to a pretty bad reading experience.

This book is ridiculously slow. Now I'm not the modern idiot that starts drooling if there isn't an action scene within every five pages, but at the same time there must be a plot thread being moved forward for a novel to be, well, good in any sense. It's interesting to know the backstory of the Khala, of the protoss civilization as a whole, but I want that from a novel while getting a compelling story being delivered to me.

And that's the thing: The story of Jake is interesting, and I like reading history books for fun, so the encyclopedic nature of the protoss tale would interest me no matter the style of book, but if you're reading a science fiction novel and you see that nearly a full third of the book is spent with the main character sleeping and recollecting scenes from the protoss past, what you have there isn't anything other than poor storytelling. The whole book, being the first of a trilogy, feels like nothing but a big set up. A set of knowledge that you must have in order to get the story going. Once you reach the end of the Protoss tale, there quite a bit of action and a nice development that closes up nicely at the end.

And the ending! Ah, the ending: where things come together and just end. That's it. Other than the fact that Jake will probably still be on the run in the future there is no plot thread to draw you into future books. He's on the run, and that's it. There is no mentioned huge threat in the universe, there is no apparent inherent responsibilities that Jake takes on. The ending just happens. Read what happens next even though we gave you no reason to believe that this is an expansive story arc.

This isn't a spoiler-free review, and I'm really sorry if I ruined any moment for any possible future reader of this book. Yet I couldn't fully articulate my reasons without them, and to be perfectly honest not once did I feel a moment of the book should be protected beneath a veil of 'spoiler alert'. There is no plot twist or surprising moment.

I will probably read book two, if anything because I invested quite some time in reading about the protoss learning how to use writing, and the huge set up must amount to something in book two. It is also a very faithful book, when it comes to Starcraft lore, and it is detailed in many aspects of the Starcraft universe. Props to Christie Golden for that. But nothing of this makes it a good book. If that's what you want: go read a Warhammer 40k novel, or a Lost Fleet novel, or even classics like the Dune series. Nothing but sheer curiosity for the Starcraft lore could make you enjoy this book (4.0/10.0).