I've said in many of my reviews over the years that change is a good thing. My reasons have been stated clearly and there has never been room for misinterpretation.

Change, when introduced gradually and with plausible reasons is acceptable. Change when it appears for no reason isn't.

Satan's Seed is a change of pace from the usual fare we've enjoyed (most of us, with the exception of certain biased, so called reviewers aka stalkers) for years.

Instead of the Cerberus crew dealing with world threatening villains or creatures out of legend and myth, we have what amounts to a simple time travel tale.

A group of Germans, remnants of the SS a year after Hitler's Defeat, have found a way to travel into the future. They're lead by a deranged satanist and equally sick Countess. The scientist believes that he has been given a sign from Lam himself to travel into the future, where he and his fellows will rule the world, one to their own liking.

For a change, the long term readers don't have to sift through a great deal of back-story. It's still there, and it's needed for the new readers, but it has been greatly reduced.

Secondly, there is a sex scene, but thankfully it was short. You might be wondering why I said this. Sex is a great thing, when you've got someone in REAL LIFE to enjoy it with. I find it to be nothing more than filler in novels, and besides, I'm not 14 so reading about it doesn't interest me.

I digress...

Third, the novel is very combat heavy. Yes, every Outlanders novel has had combat and many death defying situations. It's something we've all come to expect. The novels wouldn't be quite so entertaining without them.

Like Cerberus before, the facility on Thunder Isle comes under siege by time travelling Nazi's. Several secondary characters, mainly Brewster and Shizuka, really are given a chance to shine.

That being said, it was a nice change of pace. The Cerberus crew had a potentially deadly enemy to deal with, but it wasn't something as Earth Shattering as they've faced in the past.

Now we can get back to our regularly scheduled Save the Earth style novel.