Review: Fire your editor!!!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 17, 2014
This book, like all the rest in the series, is way too long and riddled with plot holes.The time-line is beyond FUBAR.Star fighters - What's the point? The small fighters can't damage a larger ship with its point defense systems. It's a waste of resources. Stop building small fighters and build more Devastator 3 missiles.Speaking of the Devastator 3, why build anything but those? Yes, I understand the authors explanation behind the difficulty in building them. Stop building stupid smaller ships and there would be plenty of resources for D-3's.If the only ships able to stand up to an AI ship is the strikecruiser, why would you waste resources building anything else? It's like playing Command & Conquer. You don't waste resources building 50 regular tanks when you can build 10 Mammoth tanks that will do the job better.A race if bear-like creatures from the planet Careth? Does that make them Care Bears?In one book they captured an AI ship intact. Why weren't they able to gather any usable technology? The author only mentions they didn't find any AI's in board. Where did they go?Too many characters that have nothing to do with the plot that the author keeps coming back to randomly. Nobody really cares.Constantly mentioning the length and width of every single ship is getting super old! We get it already! How about mentioning the number of decks or turbo lifts or some other useless bit of information.Where the hell are the rest of Earths "allies" in all this? They are mentioned but never described or brought into the fight.If an enemy ship were about to ram mine in a last ditch effort to take me out, I'd have a quick micro jump plotted before each engagement to get the hell out of the way. It works when Strong wants to sneak up and attack someone. Why not to avoid getting killed?Finally, if Katie was able to store both of the friendly AI's on some sort of crystal why is she not able to copy them and put them on all the ships in the fleet?