Review: Solid Space Opera
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 11, 2012
If you enjoy Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga, David Drake's RCN Series, or Elizabeth Moon's Familias Regnant universe, you will love Admiral Who.  This book does not read like a 99 cent self-published Kindle book.  It reads like a well-edited, professional novel from a major publisher.  I read a lot of Baen books, and this would fit right in with their offerings.  (Baen, are you listening?)  I really liked it.  The hero is enjoyable, fallible without being infantile, imperfect but with genuine strengths.  You want to root for him.  In my opinion, few self-published books are worth five stars - this one is.  If you've read and liked any of the books that I've listed above, you should buy this now.  I couldn't put it down.In fact, I really didn't expect this book to be so good.  Or even good, at all.  I have no idea why I bought this book, although I'm glad that I did.  Written by an author with the silly moniker of "Luke Sky Wachter" - really?  And he actually named his kid that?  There's years of therapy in store, there.  The title and the description weren't particularly exciting, either.  I thought it was going to be a juvenile attempt at a space farce.  I expected it to suck so bad that it would put Dyson out of business.  My review, talking about how much it sucked, would have been illegal for your child to read.  Believe me, I did not expect this book to be excellent.  Yet it is excellent.And now, at at time when I had grown tired of self-published dreck and fake five-star reviews, I find my willingness to read self-published novels renewed.  There are diamonds, polished diamonds, and I'm going to keep looking for more.  Also, I will be buying the second novel in this series - and eagerly awaiting more from this author.