Review: Enjoyable Story, Poor Editing, Highish Price, Fairly Short, Ok Ending
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 23, 2011
Update -- While I still feel the book deserves a 2 for price, editing and length, the book is itself quite interesting and enjoyable despite some holes and as such have revised my rating upwards. Also, the author commented on the review which was a nice gesture despite his displeasure with my review, which seems the case across any non positive review. No need to be defensive, people are generally fans.Odyssey One was a really good scifi space action book. On Silver Wings felt like a copy. It also lacked any real substance. The characters and plot are exceptionally shallow. They shoot a lot of weapons, blow up stuff, win a battle, the end. You would think I was exaggerating, but I'm not. The editing was terrible. There are so many missing words, typos and poorly worded sentences I would guess that he rushed this book out with little or no editing.The actions scenes are well described and usually fairly intense; however, they are very one sided after the half way point of the book. The humans, with inferior tech just destroy the aliens. In space, the aliens destroy the humans. There's very little clever tactics or ingenuity in the fighting. The tech Currie conjures up is quite engaging, but the application in this story isn't nearly as good as Odyssey One.Lastly, as with Odyssey One it seems like he is setting up the opportunity to have a sequel because there is so much information that isn't provided, which is frustrating because you have no idea if he intends to fill in all the gaps or not. One of the biggest holes is that you're essentially left with the belief that these aliens are really stupid, but they have great technology. Even if there tech is pretty much a one trick pony that uses black holes.