Review: Classic Space Opera
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 25, 2013
Very good sequel to the very good start of the series. It does not have the depth of an early David Weber novel, but Jack Campbell and his friends would have loved it. The battles are terrific (I tried to put a time line into the enemy fleets and the velocities mentioned of ships and missiles, and gave up after a while. I am reasonably confident that it doesn't add up all the time but who cares in a book like this?).Some of the later events are telegraphed -  the assassination of the emperor and his family, the maturing of the heir - but overall it is good reading. It could be a bit faster with some less detail about how many thousands of missiles are fired, what happens to them and why, and how many thousands of sailors die heroically - but I had to read the next page, and the next one, and so on ... I am now buying the third book and hope for  the best.