Review: Some big plot holes, but a fun ride
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 30, 2011
I read this pretty quickly, once I started it. It has a solid premise, that a captain with a distinguished career suddenly orders an apparently violent and unprovoked attack on a race with whom humans have held an uneasy peace for years. No one but a young intelligence commander seems particularly interested in figuring out why.The captain pleads guilty with no preamble, then he is promptly rescued by a dreadnought that has apparently gone rogue...Though the writing could be tighter, there are some good ideas, here. Unfortunately, the need to mislead some members of the crew, the meandering from planet to planet in the early stages of the investigation, a ship's mutiny that is oddly defeatist, and love interests that are so blind to each other's motivations that you want to slap them (or the author) are just a few of the problems with this novel. Ultimately, some of the questions are paid off by the end of this book, and I'm interested enough that I'll look for the sequel. (However, if it's as weak in some areas as this one, one more may be all I can take.)I'm rating this a 3-3 1/2, but I'm bumping that up to put it above some of the other free downloads that aren't nearly as interesting.