Review: It was such a disappointment. I feel that I'm being charitable with a ...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 9, 2014
I was so looking forward to this book.  It was such a disappointment.  I feel that I'm being charitable with a 4.  The author makes a fine narrative that draws one into the story.  It's fun to read.  Not much problem with grammar or spelling although the author consistently makes errors in the subjunctive tense and the gerund.  (It's I wish I were not I wish I was, and it's their going there not them going there.)  The ending seemed hurried and incomplete.  It's like we declared a victory and left (like Viet Nam).  What are we going to do with those wolf people?  The Friendlies always seemed nefarious (or maybe duplicitous), something going to be done about them?  There was kind of a skip over on how the colonies failed to survive the attack -- what really did happen?  Political intrigue was rather simplistic.  Not really necessary, I guess, the politicians were back stabbing, narcissistic, mentally challenged kibitzers, so that's really all we have to know about them to move the story forward.  It's just that their up front way of doing things and the response that worked against them seemed rather foolish.  The melodramatic ending was just too much.  I'm not going to reread the story to figure out why we thought there were only 6 ships when there were really 7.  I really did think we got all of them.  Didn't we?  Of course we gave them knowledge of one of our greatest weapons.  I couldn't figure out why we did that, but I suspect the consequences will be revealed in the next episode which is promised, but not promised in October.  I think the author should take a little more time if deadlines are going to affect the quality of his work as, apparently, the June deadline affected the quality of this book.  I like the cover art, it was better than episode 3, but not really as good as 1 or 2.