Review: Nice read, save for two points
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 3, 2013
As others have reviewed, its a nice read, not heavy in the technical details, but the author outright states that's not his goal. Its an adventure, where the main cast solve the problems put in front of them in an action packed manner. Very familiar elements dressed up with some flairs that kept it unique for what it is. My suspension of disbelief was fine for most of the tale until two points.One, which is the bigger one, although it happens after the first one, is a certain rescue. Where a character is introduced in an unflattering manner. She is pretty much set up as someone not to like, we find out why, and then she disappears from the story. I kept hoping to find an explanation of why she acted the way she did, or even what she is as an explanation, like what happened to the President or the General, but there was nothing. She knew too much to have done what she did simply out of fear she was on the losing side. I honestly feel as I must have missed something as my reading rate did pick up as I expected (hoped for) another rescue in the works given what happened to the President and the General. The lack of any explanation bothered me for the rest of the book. I confess, I even used the search function on the Kindle to find any reference to her name to see if I missed some explanation.The other was their smaller ship. Several times its refer to as doing something on its own, but lacked an explanation of how. I don't mean I needed a technical how-it-works explanation. It would have been nice to know whether it was automated, with some preset program, an AI (which really is the same thing, but many works treat it as different), its a robot-ship or some other reason that let it just know when to fire on the bad guys or even come back to get the crew if something happened to them. It seemed glossed over to justify the need for a pilot the rest of the time. Whatever the reason, the lack of an explanation bothered me.However, if such a trivial details won't bother you, the book is a nice, smooth read. I will pick up the next book to see how Mark and the gang go through that upcoming adventure aboard the Cag.