Review: frustrating
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 18, 2013
The good:  A lot less techno talk, classes by the admiral so more story.  Much improved on the abrupt POV changes.mixed:  he spends less time w/ the admiral, trying to build up other characters a little, with very mixed results - some seem to contribute to the story, others just feel more like interruptions.  He also has reduced the techno talk and repititave writing.bad: two things mainly.  The first - while he seems to have fixed his POV problems, he has inserted tense problems - he changes from present to past tense frequently - often in the middle of a sentence while is REALLY annoying.  The second - he has added a number of references to current culture (rants on the birthers and 9/1 conspiracy people, the A-Team, and others) that just seem out of place 1000 years from now.overall - like the other books in this series it could have greatly benefited from an editor/feedback from a few trusted readers to clean up the writing style and grammatical stuff.