Review: Overly Simplistic
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 19, 2013
I thought the book started out strong...I felt engaged with both the characters and the training process to become cyborg ships. The "science" was pretty good and applied consistantly, but the FTL communications that allowed people to interact real-time in a VR sim when they were seperated by hundreds of light years made me roll my eyes a bit. The portreyal of what it was like to actually "be" a ship was good though.I felt like the plot line had too many logical offshoots for the author to deal with successfully without writing a much larger book(s), and as a result it became over simplified. For example, in order to resolve the main conflict the human ships did in fact turn traitor, gave material aid and support to the enemy, thwarted earth's attemp to re-take a colony world that had been litterally slaughtered tot the last child, and gave the enemy enough information to cause the likely defeat of earth. Why did they do this, and how did they do this without becoming the "bad guy" themselves? Well, because they trusted that the enemy ships were really OK guys and had everybody's best interest at heart. Oh, and they were upset that the govt lied to them.Let me put it this way: if these cyborg ships existed in the Honor Harrington universe, they would've been drummed out as cowards and fools, and shot for treason.But it didn't read all that badly, once I realized that I kinda had to stop thinking about stuff while I read. I do think this author is good and has potential, but he kept opening cans of worms and having to gloss over them, instead of getting down to the nitty gritty and sorting them out.