Review: Cliché on cliché equals: boring.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 10 30, 2013
After a promising first few paragraphs this novel descends enthusiastically into clicheville.  The characters are parodies of clichés.  Their conversations are ridiculous. Gay men are insanely insulted and stereotyped left right and centre.  Women are alternative leered at and then misogynistly insulted.  Girls have to be hotties, ready at a moments notice to jump into bed with their sistas.  The story is rambling, often boring, interspersed with irrelevant soft core romance, contains aliens that would be embarrassed to be seen skulking on Deep Space nine and it makes little effort at scientific rigour.  Our hero wanders about without any overarching mission on some sort of space ship going from planet to planet for no observable reason.  Little effort has been made to make us care about what's going on or to attempt at raising any existential tension.  Many parts of the book can be just skimmed over without worry that you'll miss a crucial plot point as their seems to be few of them about.  Potential points of conflict are just dismissed without exploration. For example: the entire ship's executive leadership is murdered but the new Captain makes no effort to investigate it.  Mysteries dark forces are reawakened, but don't worry, because the crew don't seem to care, so it can't be too bothersome.  Don't waste your time.  Better writers with a clue abound.