Review: not very believable
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 12, 2013
I sort of liked it but I just couldn't make myself finish even the first episode.The PROS:The first chapter is great and introduces some good characters.I also like the author's style of writing. I had no trouble following the plot or the dialog.There were no awkward phrases or concepts, which is a problem that many authors have these days.The characters were fairly well developed, though there is room for improvement.The CONS:My first and biggest complaint is that the author has no apparent concept of the vastness of space. For instance, the spaceship Aurora does a random jump through space and ends up a thousand light years away and in the middle of a space battle! Now, unless there are a few octillion of such battles occurring at any given moment in our stellar neighborhood, then this event is incredibly unlikely. The odds involved would sort of be like winning a couple of dozen super-lotteries in a row. Not going to happen.There is just too many plot gimmicks like this one in the book to make it believable or enjoyable.So, people who have no appreciation for how many undecillion (E36 power) of cubic kilometers are in a thousand light years of interstellar space (and other such dramatic licensing) might enjoy the book. I could not.scifi-fan1