Review: Interesting, Fast-Paced Story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 27, 2012
Other reviewers have covered most of my points well.  As noted, the characters are well developed and the fast-paced plot will draw you in.  One disappointment for me was that the only advanced technology (and it was well done) was in the first chapter.  Well-developed concepts of sociology and genetics were imnportant throughout the story.  After the first chapter, the plot was set first in primitive society and then in victorian times having a military with WWI technology.  This is not a criticism of the story for most readers, because the plot succeeds anyway. You should understand this going in, however, if you like space opera.One other problem was that incorrect words were substituted in common sayings often enough to be distracting. A few of the examples are:"eek out a living" instead of eke"canon" instead of cannon (it was correct once)"bare children" and "couldn't bare to look" instead of bear"teaming with life" instead of teeming, and a number of others. Picky, but could be corrected with better editing. Unfortunately, spell check won't catch this kind of error.