Review: Great book with plenty of space battles
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 2, 2013
Yes I know, depending on where you look this may or may not be the 4th book in the series. However, if you look at the author’s own web-site you will find that it is indeed book 2 in the Slaver Wars series and that the books that preceded Slaver Wars 1 & 2 was called The Moon Wreck series. I’ll thrust the authors site more than some labelling on Amazon so as far as I am concerned this is book number 2 in the series.This is a book quite in my style. It might not be as detailed, have as deep characters or have as elaborate world building as some books but what it does have is a good adventure story, plenty of likable characters and lots and lots of space battles. Maybe my appreciation of this book have been tainted by the fact that many of the books that I have read lately have been lacking in this area so I was really wanting some space battles. But then Sci-Fi with nice space battles with big capital ships slugging it out have always been one of my favorites.The book advances quite a few years into the future from both the previous Slaver Wars book, which is natural since it was a prequel, and the Mon Wreck books. Normally that would have its drawbacks in that a lot of the characters that was introduced in the previous books would be gone. In this book the author solves that little issue with the cryogenic technology that was a key element of the Moon Wreck books as well.This book can really be said to be the starting point of the real action of the series. The first book was really mostly explaining the background of the entire set of previous and future books, both the Slaver Wars and The Moon Wreck series. As I mentioned before there are plenty of space battles in this book. The humans are indeed giving the both Hocklyns and the AIs the finger big time. That being said, it is just the opening salvo of a long war.The book is of course not just one battle after another. The humans get a few new allies. A mysterious race is briefly introduces which I assume will play some role further on. We get to know some of the Hocklyns more in-depth and some of them are more than likely to continue to play a major role in future books. Then there is the mysterious relation between the AIs and the humans. Why do the AIs seem to fear the humans and how is it that they seem to even know about humans already before the Hocklyns attacked them the first time?I found this book to be very enjoyable reading and needless to say I am really looking forward to the next book in the series.