Review: Information Cloud - What a Lot of Battles ...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 23, 2013
Information Cloud - What a lot of battles...... broadcasted life right from the start!I enjoyed this eBook very much. It is full of action and promising characters, but...But there is a lot of very useful information unfortunately lacking from the beginning... :((I am a Sci-Fi reader since I was a teenager, and all the great space operas I have read and re-read them now when I want to meet my "old heroes" again.My kind of SF is a bit less technological than the author describes it in this work. It is very action-loaded, war machines fully or half destroyed, but to shuffle with my old kindle back and forth for certain explanations for war pieces etc. was a bit irritating.Oh, I love the characters, but...I would have liked to have some background before the people started dying before I knew them. I found myself a bit like a fish thrown into a pond without knowing the habitat. All the history given to us readers right at the beginning seems far too little for me.Instead of throwing me as a reader into the full war between the Kamari (really the bad???) - but the author called them "a new enemy" in the Prologue - against the forces directed by that Admiral Gail Thompson - such an evil person - so also here's the question, what is goo or what is bad???Those Lord(s) Hades - a full enigma...That hacker Trent and his brother - persons without loyalty, ethics and scruples, a bit overstated - making no big difference between hacking and killing?And at the end the scene is open - me as the reader a bit baffled.Surely I will buy the second book, but there should be inserted a lot more of a background before the battles start again ... :)This book is a debut novel - and I know that Peter L. West will give his best to answer a lot of the questions left, in the second book "Central Command", coming out ( as I read) near the end of 2013.Surely I will buy the second book, but there should be inserted a lot more of a background before the battles start again ... :)Anyway, highly recommended for Tech-Sci-Fi-Fans, but also for those who have an open mind for some kind of extra-sensorial powers...