Review: Good beginning, shallow finish
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 26, 2013
This is an OK book among the average self-published books on Amazon. The beginning of the narrative was actually quite good, but unfortunately things went a bit sour towards the end, so my suspended disbelief finally broke its tether and fell on my head. There are too many fortunate coincidences and some quite unrealistic plot turns.=== Spoilers ===For example I can't force myself to believe that two senior fleet captains would pass supreme(sic!) command to a freshly-minted marine captain. Surprise attack of Protectorate forces isn't that plausible either. Don't Earth fleet and planetary defense keep any watch of surrounding space?But despite these blunders the book is a good distraction from our boring mundane life, so I'll at least try the second part of the series. Hopefully it'll be more consistent quality-wise.Yeah, one more thing. Most of American sci-fi authors introducing Russian personages are going overboard with patronymics at best or getting names all together wrong at worst. It's a really minor albeit funny distraction. And Rick Partlow isn't an exception :)