Review: mediocre - but worth the $2.99 I paid for it
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 26, 2012
A lot of low priced (or free) books I have gotten are just so poorly crafted that it negatively impacts the story. This one is pretty good in that area. A few mistakes along the way, but nothing that awful.The story itself is basic space opera.Slave manages to get away from his captors and steals a ship. Becomes a pirate king. Decides he does not like being a pirate and leaves the pirate world (while taking his ill gotten gain with him).Early on in the book there is a synopsis of how the slave came to be a pirate. I guess it is an attempt by the author to justify his actions. I never bought into it. As the pirate leader he was every bit as responsible for the crimes of his followers as the other pirates themselves, even if he was able to avoid having blood directly on his own hands. Apparently his moral qualms about being a pirate did not go real far as he seemed to have no issue with keeping the loot.There is some moderately interesting stuff as he flees from his former pirate minions, fearing they will want to hunt him down and kill him.He ends up owning a space junk store full of derelict vessels that he turns into a small space navy to save a planet under attack by a neighboring system. In the process the evil politicians of the attacking system realize the error of their ways and turn from the dark side.Most of the story was not really believable, but it was crafted well enough that it was moderately enjoyable.