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While I enjoy the long epic stories, sometimes it is nice to pick up something a little different.My only problem is that the books were so short, that I caught up to the current published books very quickly. It's a decent space fighting series. Never get's too heavy and always moves along at a brisk pace.
It was just covered in tons and tons of repetitive blah in this particular book.All that being said, I am going to continue with this series because I believe it will go back to being an awesome space opera. The characters (some of them) are great and very human. First, can I seriously just open a ship door and shove Rione out into space. For real.
The author is unrivaled in his ability to write understandable combat scenes. This series is starting to seriously frustrate me. (And I've already purchased the next one, heh). (We are only banshees on Fridays, dang it). I almost had deja vu when I read then like, "did my bookmark move. I think you could seriously just read the first 20 pages, 10 pages in the middle, and 20 at the end and know what went down and be less frustrated.Next, I swear nothing happened.
She seriously has two lines in the whole novel, "I'm not going to let you turn into Black Jack," and "I'm an important politician, you need to respect me while I butt in on your area of expertise." Seriously, it portrayed women very badly like frivolous, entitled, and air-headed banshees. I feel like it is going nowhere at a painfully slow pace. There were still some specks of the things that made me fall into obsession with this series in the first place. It could easily be told in 35 pages. Okay, a few things happened, but this book should have probably been combined with another one. I swear I've already read this." The same is true with the long-winded conferences. There is a slight underlying tension to the story that keeps propelling that story. I love this series, but this book, to put it in bluntly, sucked, sucked, and then sucked some more at times.
The idea behind the story is brilliant, but the pace is awful and I want to strangle some of the characters. I swear that 75% of the novel was just her nagging and griping at poor John Geary. I am very ignorant about that type of stuff, and I understand the movements very well. The first two books were great, so what happened.I have a gigantic list of gripes. (All you would have to do is take out Rione griping, seriously). I counted John saying the same lines (verbatim) more than 3 times. She is the most redundant, narrow-minded, anal, annoying, and impossible female character I think that I have ever come across. Next, there were a lot of a repetitive scenes and lines.
I will travel on to book four. old pasifist with a psych degree, I found it worth reading even thought it is 'billed' as a military sci-fi book. I don't know what I missed, but the situations, dialogues and drama were about the same. Upon reading the reviews, I decided to move on from one to three.
I read the first book and enjoyed it. I am now curious about the 'critters' that are now promised. If the book was longer, I would have given it a lower mark. The series has human interest and some moral discussions.
I am sooo glad I did. THAT should give a new interest.I hope. As a 66 yr. I decided to read more of the series.
I do understand the importance of refreshing a reader's memory in a series, and of making every book accessible to someone who, for reasons i'll never understand, picks up a book mid-series and expects everything to make sense. Third, Geary's internal conflict with Black Jack is getting a bit worn out. And fourth, in this book i really felt like half of every page was spent reminding readers of the events of the previous two books. I read the first book in this series in one sitting. But when it gets so chronic that a continuing reader can't get through it all, something's gone amiss.I'll probably track down book four in a bookstore some day to read the first chapter and find out what happens after the pseudo-cliffhanger ending of book 3, but i'm not going to pay $7.99 for a rehash of the first three books, plus a few bonus scenes. Book 3 plodded, and for more than one reason.First, the writing's just not as tight anymore. Book two went by almost as fast. Second, some of the primary characters are becoming simpler instead of more complex as the series continues (other reviewers have covered this in depth, so i'll leave it be).
The author creates a very real "space navy" complete with hierarchy, customs, tactics, history in enough detail to make it almost seem real. Highly recommended. I have read the first 4 (out of 5) in the series. It's like a fictional Tom Clancy novel if he were to draw his characters and details from and existing space faring navy at war. I can't put them down. What a great series. Excellent plot and character development, a lot of action without being inundated with detail.
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