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I didn't think I could again be addicted to both a show and the books, for said show, the last time that happened I was 13-14 yrs and the show was 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch'....but these SGA novels are just amazing. I thought Rising was great, Reliquary was even better.

So we get a full ensemble...of Sheppard, Mckay, Ford, Teyla, Kavanaugh, and two addition Drs, and two additional marines....later on you get Elizabeth, Bates, Zelenka, Beckett, Grodin..

The author's characterization of all characters who head on. Sheppard and Mckay, as usual, just like watching them on the series. To die for.

Mckay, and Kavanaugh. Equally funny.

So the basic concept of the story was that they find a structure like the Helipolis, and they go there to check it out. Through some very choppy scenes, I'm afraid to say at the beginning the writer kind of goes off to different scenes without any notice. It may flow for others but to me it seem that she wrote one scene but flipped to others, like panning a camera I guess....

Anyway, not to give away much of the some parts I really enjoyed was the great Sheppard and Mckay moments, they had some great parts, for example in part of the novel Sheppard actually HAS to depend on Mckay, and Mckay who is normally very brash, is very worried/caring and actually for those moments, seem like a guy you can honestly say you're proud to know.

Mckay, finds Sheppard after he's been poisoned, and refuses to leave him...

"He started to come back to his senses a little, mostly in self-defense, when Mckay banged John's head against a metal support. He grabbed the railing to help steady Mckay, who was muttering, '---find a strandid survivor in a stasis container in the middle of a bombed out Ancient repository, you'd think he was an Ancient, right, but no, this is the Pegasus Galaxy, so he's a serial killer. And you, you obstinate product of the military industrial complex, expect me to leave you in this filthy pit, surronded by decomposing genetically altered people, and dead people I might add, like something out of a Dr. Phibes movie---'

'That was Dr. Moreau,' John told him, then the rest of that little speech registered. 'Are you still bitching about me telling you to leave me? 'Cause nothings changed, you're going to have to leave me.'

............Mckay leaned over him breathing hard, 'There may be only two of us left on this hellish planet, Major, and until we can make contact with the others or Atlantis again, we're an autonomous collective." *

That was a longer quote than I thought, but I so love a frustrated Rodney...he works great under tough contitions.

Also...Mckay and Kavanaugh, oh their bantering back and forth is just too good...two men who think they know everything...*runs for cover*

You could say it was like 'Conversion', we have Sheppard changing form, and becoming very much in tune with Ancient technology.

(ie. ZPMs talking to him- that was rather interesting...)

"The ZPM whispered again, and before John could stop himself he snapped, 'Will you shut up?'

His attention on the detector, Rodney said unperturbed, "You have to wait until I'm talking until you can say that. That's the way it works. I thought you got that about us." ^*Now on to shippy like moments, or just cute Sheppard and Teyla moments doesn't have to necessarily be shippy. They just seem like great moments for both characters.

The first is Teyla fighting for control of herself, and being forced to inject Sheppard with unknow substance that will eventually alter him.

"Teyla was leaning over him. There were two Koan standing behind her, impatiently as if they were waiting for her. And she still had her P-90 slung around her neck.

...Something is wrong with this picture. Maybe it was him. ' Teyla---What---'

She braced her hands on the stone thing he was lying on, shuddered, winced, then choked out, 'I'm sorry, Major.'

'Sorry for what' John said. He knew he wasn't going to like the answer....

.....'I have to do what he says. He has something, a drug, it affects the mind, it forces you to obey him.' Teyla squeezed her eyes shut for a moment...

...'He just--What, you can hear him in you head?'

She gritted her teeth. 'Yes. It's like nothing---.' She shook her head violently. 'I cannot make it stop. I cannot make myself stop.'

John was getting a scary picture of what had happened. Teyla hadn't been ill up in the lab, she'd been fighting off a drug, she hadn't even known she'd been given. 'Teyla, you're strong, you're the strongest person I know, you can fight it.' ^*

And my final scene that I found ever so cute...(kind of like the end of 'Conversion')

"Teyla walked in then, saying 'Dr. Weir, they said you wished to--' Flustered, she halted abruptly, and started to back out of the room. 'I'm sorry. I did not realize---'

By the time John said, 'Hey Teyla,' Elizabeth was already on her feet and at the door.

She took Teyla's arm, drawing her back inside, saying 'Teyla I just have to---If you could wait for me here--'

...Elizabeth was out the door....

Bemused, John watched her, trying to figure out what was wrong. Teyla was avoiding his eyes, her brows furrowed and her cheeks flushed with embarrasment. He said, 'I thought you were on the mainland, catching up with everybody.'...

Teyla frowned at the floor. 'I was, but I was told Dr. Weir wanted to see me today.'

....Teyla had come from the direction where the curve of the gallery blocked a full view of the room until the last instant; she obviously hadn't expected to see John here, and Elizabeth had just as obviously lured her back to the city hoping she would. He pushed to his feet so he could face her, perching on the edge of the desk and folding his arms, 'Okay. Would you like to tell me what's wrong?'

Teyla lifted her chin, saying stiffly,'I thought perhaps you would need time...I did not know how these things were done among your people.'

John sighed, 'So you went to the mainland to make it easier for me to be incredibly unfair and fire you for the exact same thing that happened to half the marines...

...'Why is it called 'fire'?'

...John shook his head. 'Look that wasn't you.'

Her voice hardened. 'That was me...I cannot ask you to trust me, if I do not feel I can trust myself."

'You didn't have any control over what you were doing.'

...John could tell he wasn't going to be able to talk her through this...she was going to have to get through on her own.'I'm not going to argue with you, because you're too stubborn, and we'd be here all day. You're not fired and that's final.' He pushed off the desk, straightened up. 'Now come here and do the head-butt thing with me.'

'It is not called the head-butt thing,' she said, but her voice roughened, and she stepped forward.

He managed to fumble through the process enough that Teyla actually snorted in amusement."^*

This is one of John's thoughts...during the convo from up above, it kind of took away from what I was trying to show between John and Teyla, so I'm putting it down here:

"John noticed Bates again, watching them with a line of suspicion between his brows, as if hoping to catch them at something, like making out in the glass walled office in full view of half the operations staff." *

It just struck me as funny...hehehehe...

And that's what I walked away with after reading Reliquary...

[*]Wells, Martha. Stargate Atlantis: Reliquary. United Kingdom: Fandemonium, 2006.