Review: a good read that could have been better
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 26, 2011
This is pretty good space opera. Some of this self published stuff I have bought lately is just chock full of typos, grammatical errors, and other annoying proofreading issues. This one is NOT. There are a few here and there but, but they are relatively few, and don't take awy all that much from my enjoyment of the story.The story is pretty much classic space opera and military heroism. Then out of nowhere near the end of the story it goes off the deep end. No idea why. It is quite good until it devolves into some kind of silliness near the end. Maybe some kind of personal statement of the author. I don't know. It would be a lot better if the ending was even remotely plausible.But it has a lot of good things going for it up until the last 10 or 20 pages, and it was enough fun that I could forgive it for that.I think it was $3. It is well worth $3.Space ships.Space war.A lost fleet.Heroic battles against long odds, well told.A truly evil enemy.A little bit of romance evn.Unfortunately, at the tail end of the book, it turns out that everyone more or less makes nice and we all live happily ever after. Just totally implausible.