Review: military space opera - slightly juvenile but fast paced, fun and very attractively priced
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 10, 2014
Like all of Christopher Nuttall's books this is a good military science fiction where the good guys win and are able to overcome extreme odds because they are better trained and just plain better than the bad guys.  I thought when I first grabbed this book it was an outgrowth of his Empire series, but it is not.  Aliens invade for unknown reasons and suddenly the Earth space fleets have to unite to fend off this attack on the race.Not everything is explained.  Like why did the aliens attack?The fleet fighting against overwhelming odds, cut off from it's return home fighting it's way though enemy territory has been done better by Jack Campbell in his Lost stars series or even better by David Weber and Steve White in "in Death Ground", "Crusade", "the Shiva Option"...This book is slightly better than "The Frontiers Saga" by Ryk Brown.My biggest credibility gap is it is not clear at all why the "modern" space ships are so vulnerable.  If they could be destroyed that easy they would not have held up very well to conventional attacks either.  A simple twist where for instance tehy were defended by force fields which do not stop the alien weapons or some other obvious weakness would have helpe dthsi bridge this leap of credibility.But the story moves along nicely.  The sex is not so explicit ot make this inappropriate for young readers and the good guys win.