Review: Easily five stars
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 28, 2014
Wow, this was just great!  Terrific character development and excellent story telling...it has everything you'd want in a space opera.  If you like B.V. Larson's Star Force series, then you're really gonna love this one.  Five stars just don't seem to do it justice.  Below I'll tell you a funny story about this book. :-DThere are a couple of things I wish had been done better and I think would have made it perfect.  Spoiler for those who haven't read it...Some of the science mistakes could have been easily avoided without hurting the story.  For example, there are numerous references to lasers lighting up space.  Lasers are invisible in space unless it hits you in the eye.  And numerous inconsistencies in the spacial dimensions of the Defiant.If you care about writing, this book is nearly mistake-free as far as typos.  Cudos to the author!!  There are more of them in the third volume than in the others, but they are few.  The dialog does get a little annoying sometimes in a conversation when each person continually addresses the other person by name.Hello, Jason.Hello, Sybil.Jason, are you going to....Yes, Sybil, I am.Ok, Jason, that's good to know.  Thank you.You're welcome, Sybil.Oh, by the way, Jason?Yes, Sybil?Jason, I just want to add...  [Kinda like that.]I haven't checked to see if this trilogy will continue.  It seems like there's still a lot more story potential and I hope the author takes us on at least a few more adventures with Jason and the crew.A couple of days ago I was on the train, deeply immersed in the second volume of this trilogy.  The train reached its final station and I didn't realize that the train had stopped and everyone got off.  The train's doors closed and the train slowly pulled out and moved on, eventually ending up in a maintenance area.  I was completely oblivious as I was totally in the world of this book.  That's never happened to me before and I feel it's a real tribute to JD Clarke's ability to tell a great story!  I hope you read it and enjoy it as much as I did.