Review: Good series highly recommend for young teenagers
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 24, 2012
I waited for the last book to come out before reviewing any of them.  When I first started reading book #1 I almost stopped and put it away for good.  Really talking super rabbits?  Why?  Fortunately (or not) the story line kept me reading.  So I finished the first book and read the 2nd.  I liked the series overall, but quite hoestly I thought it would have been much better done without the talking rabits.  When the dogs and horses where introduced it was really way over the top.  Opposible thumbs are key to intelligent development.  I think the entire series could have been better served if the rabbits had been replaced with a lessor race discovered during colonizations of planets. I also had a hard time accepting the premise that a monarchy was a better for of government than a representitive democracy or even a lose confederacy.Having said all that I recommend this series for parents who might want to introduce their children to sci-fi.  It was a good series and each level was a good spring board for the next, right to the very end.  At least I hope "Admiral" was the very end.One last thought, killing off James at the end did not help with the ending at all.  That was another disappointment.