Review: enjoyable
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 9, 2013
I did enjoy this book, but I have to admit, I really like stories of regaining lost tech or bringing high tech to low tech societies (Destroyermen series, axis of time trilogy, the lost regiment, etc).  What you get here is a lot of techno talk - bits of classes the engineer teaches to the crew and lots of descriptions of repairs along with character interations - so this book won't appeal to everyone.  That said, there are some issues with the book as well:first - this book needs an editor BADLY.  The formatting is fine, it just need a good bit of tweeking to the writing to make sentence and paragraph structures better.  You won't be pulling your hair out reading it, but you will get annoyed at times with things like switching between speakers with no warning.second - The main character is a bit hard to believe - not too much character development here.  This is a man who was an admiral and commanded ships in battle, as well as waking up 700 years after everyone he knew, and the society he was part of ended - yet he seems to basically have no ego, sex drive (the ship is basically all young women, and initially at least dressed w/ cloths from a brothel, so not exactly dressed conservatively), or emotions.  You do get a couple of hints at ego and emotion, but very little which seemed a bit unbelievable for me (the book covers about 1 year so I expected a lot more than the brief references we got).