Review: A reboot filled with make-believe situations
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 9, 2013
Book 1 was reasonably good. In Book 2, the author strangely decided to kill Nadya's ship and nearly all her colleagues - this happens *between* Book 1 and Book 2 without any story. (Dear officer..everyone is dead due to a trap set by the Raiders, so congratulations, you get a new ship). So one is forced to read about the Riss discrimination whinefest once again for over half the book. Book 2 is effectively Book-1 once again with a new ship and worse officers.Sidenote: Personally, I find it extremely doubtful that professional, military officers belonging to a space-navy are ever going to act in such a revolting manner to a peer officer considering that the only real physical distinguishing characteristic of Nadya from ordinary humans is her facial tattoo. Now, if you gave her a tail or horns, I could understand the ick factor..but a simple tattoo just doesn't cut it.I continued to plough my way through but the epic facepalm moment happens at the end when the Raider base is discovered and the SaS Navy high command spends weeks building up a flotilla without sending a ship to scout the base and its defenses. There is just no way a functioning space admiralty would ever behave in such a fashion.