Review: Not bad, but not good
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 26, 2012
Some spoilers below!!This book shows both promise and a lack of witing maturity. The plot it pretty linear and while the events are not too foreshadowed, the overall outcome is never in doubt. The book is of the space opera genre, so that isn't a horrible fault,l but the way that the author gets to the end isn't as believable as it shouldahve been. As another reviewer stated the speed of human technological progresswas really too great to be believable and that, coupled with far too many deus ex machina events where the main character or her alien technology artificial intelligence "save the day" really undercuts the plot and weakens the narritive significantly.The tone of this book is similar to that of the ancient Lensman and Skylark series of E.E. "Doc" Smith. The heroine is relatively one dimensional, the end result of any action is known before it starts and there is an over-reliance on techno babble to explain everything as opposed to describing the action or characters more fully. The constant references to current day culture are distracting (an exploration ship class named "Enterprise" after a 200 year old TV program and having one of the captains of this class of ship be James Thomas Kirk? Really?) and just plain bad writing.The events in this book should really have been fleshed out significantly more and have taken place over many more years than depicted here. A good author could have and should have had the war of an upstart young race against an ancient galactic superpower last more than 6 months and one book. It is too hurried and suffers for it. It is very difficult to suspend this much disbelief.Others have also discussed the many, many, many punctuation and typographical errors. It truly detracts from the story. Almost every page has several errors and one is constantly coming out of the story to mentally correct those errors. The author asks for anyone who sees a problem to report them to his facebook page. Far better it would ahve been to have at least two other readers do exactly that with the manuscript prior to committing it to print/digital format.So, in the end, it's entertaining, but not deeply. It needs a lot more work and the author really needs to have several independant people proof read anything prior to committing it to print.