Review: Quite The Epic!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 15, 2013
I've put off writing a review of the Spinward Fringe books until I had finished the last of the primary books. Having done so I have to say that I have mixed feelings about the series.For the most part it is a very engrossing Space Opera with the larger than (two or three) life characters. There are the starships with characters of their own, there are classic heroes and dastardly villains all jammed together in a galactic conflict between freedom and enslavement.The sections of the story that involved the doings aboard the starships and among the crews of the good guys held my interest easily while the interactions and plotting of the bad guys bored me to tears.Some of the plot details were difficult to follow and I found myself just taking things at face value rather than worrying about what happened to cause this or that.The concept of some of the characters dying and then having their consciousness` downloaded into a new body takes some getting used to.This series has been out for a few years so I won't harp on the typos and grammatical and syntax errors except to say that there are quite a few but not so many that they detract from the story. I will call the author to task for using the the word "dampening", which means to get slightly wet, for the word "damping" which means to subdue or muffle.Overall I have to commend the author for writing a whopper of a tale. I was thoroughly entertained and in the end, that's the ultimate goal of any book. By that measure, the Spinward Fringe series of books are a success!