Review: Excellent
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 4, 2013
If you enjoy Honor Harrington, you will enjoy this book. It was really a throwback to the days before Weber got obsessed with political intrigue and focused on a few strong characters, plenty of action, and military strategy. For a first time author, this was an impressive book. I notice that some of the (very few) negative reviews focused on typos/editing stuff, but for me the story moved along at such a fast, tense pace that those barely registered.The only negative I feel worth mentioning was sometimes the "science" didn't make sense to me. In particular, in the final battle I was never able to reconcile how ships were using a minefield to vanish from the enemy, popping out to take a shot then backing up to be safe and unseen. While the author doesn't really get into explaining the tech very specifically, it generally hangs together quite well for the purpose of the story. But the minefield thing just kept pulling me out of the story.