Rogue Clone
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Rogue Clone (Rogue Clone, Book 2) by Steven L. Kent
An unknown x-factor. ✖️
The Rogue Clone books are generic science fiction at its most straightforward. The tropes are all here: military politics that make no sense, endless setup that mostly leads to more setup, and a universe that feels more recycled than original. On paper, there’s nothing remarkable or unique about it. And yet… I can’t stop enjoying myself.
Here’s the best way I can explain it:
Take the movie John Wick. 🤩 At face value, it’s “just another action movie”: an ex-hitman gets pulled back into the underworld for revenge. We’ve all seen that before. But John Wick elevated itself through style, choreography, and execution. It found an x-factor that set it apart and turned it into one of the most iconic action films of its era.
Now, to be clear, I am not comparing Rogue Clone to John Wick (one is a genre-defining masterpiece, the other is popcorn sci-fi). But I bring it up because Rogue Clone has that same mysterious x-factor. It takes familiar, even cliché, elements and somehow makes them work. I can’t quite pin down why, it just does. 🤷♂️
Maybe as I keep going deeper into the series, I’ll figure out what that x-factor is. For now, though, it may be generic, it may be flawed, but Rogue Clone is ridiculously entertaining, and that’s more than enough. 💥
