Review: Enjoyable adventure series
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 16, 2013
This the fourth in an enjoyable series about the birth of successor states to a crumbling Galactic Empire.  A mix of people from rebels who despise the Empire to champions of Imperial ideals (not the grubby reality) must now form a new Commonwealth on the Rim to take over the cause of defending civilization.  However, others have their own ideas in the wake of the falling Empire.  The news about Earth's collapse is still rumor, yet victims of the corruption and injustice of the Empire's last days see a chance for their own vindication.  No matter what it costs other people.I had a little problem with the time frame.  It seems that things are happening too fast, especially considering the ship transit times.  I know the author wanted the Earth's collapse to still be rumor on the Rim, not fact, but two years from the last story (#2) is too short a time for both the political changes and the ship-building in the Commonwealth to occur. I would double that.The writing was pretty good, with decent characterization, but the number of wrong word choices (which spell-check will not catch) was very jarring. I had to decode what word the author really meant too many times.  This needs to improve in future books!