Review: A little over the top, but enjoyable.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 17, 2013
Jesse's Starshipis another story about Earthmen beating superior aliens ... sort of.  A young man who loses his family to an alien abduction devotes his life to finding them again.  Against all odds, he hijacks an alien spaceship.  In so doing, he starts a chain of events that affect the entire world as well as other civilizations.  When the "evil" aliens turn out to have a point of view that makes their actions almost justified, he must choose how he will react.  Will he violently fight against the aliens ... or will he do the right thing?  And what is the right thing?  Meanwhile, things are stirring in the ranks of Earth's major military forces that complicate an already dangerous situation.Some of the plot is a little over the top, especially the young man and his companion being able to improve so much of the alien tech in their stolen spaceship.  As well as being too noble for words.  Any plot involving the possible destruction of Earth has room for hyperbole.  But it was enjoyable to experience a rush reading some of the action scenes of good guys kicking a**.  I liked it somewhat, but the politics of the solution were a problem for me.  It seemed to me that they just repeated the original violence issue with new players from Earth.A problem with this book was mistakes about the military.  SEALs are US Navy and their ranks are different from the other three services.  They do not have privates, sergeants, colonels, etc.  They have petty officers, chiefs, commanders, etc.  Also, a Bradley Fighting Vehicle would not have air-to-air missiles, but surface-to-air missiles.  And other mistakes.  This is a jarring note in the book.