Review: Enjoying the series, although I have a little constructive criticism
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 2, 2011
I have just finished this story and purchased the second in the series, "The Crystal Ship."  To me this story flowed well throughout, there was decent action going on for most of the story, and the setting and diversity of characters are interesting.  It seems to be heading in the direction of a solid story about a reluctant hero who has to balance between many opposing sides.  the one major fault I've found with the book, and I don't know if it is just me who is bothered by such things, is that the underlying science is misused.  don't get me wrong I don't think e very sci fi writer should be a theoretical physicist, but I do think they should take a few minutes to look up the scope of space and how it will relate to the story.  When I'm engrossed in the story and then come across, for instance that a rival faction lives in another galaxy 15 light years away it  just causes me to pause and think, how is that supposed to make sense...The closest galaxy to us (and it's just a dwarf satellite galaxy that is being devoured by the milky way) is 25,000 light years away.  And a lightyear is exactly that... The distance light travels in a year.  So in order for someone to travel 60.4 ly's if they are going 15 times the speed of light it would not take 4 hours like it said in the story but 4 years.  To do it in 4 hours they would have to be traveling roughly 133,152 times the speed of light (at least I think my math is close on that...). Other than basic background research like that that I feel is needed in a sci fi novel this is a quite enjoyable story, especially for free.  I also gladly paid the 2.99 for the second and I'll be buying the third next.