Review: The Space Adventure Continues
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 17, 2013
Having achieved real interest in his characters by the end of the first novel, Richard Sanders builds on both them and the plot to achieve some very fine adventure ficture. About a quarter of the way into this sequel, you achieve a bit of confidence in the author's abilities to build new characters into this series that advance the plot and help us learn about what makes Calvin tick.Mr. Sanders does a good job building some sexual tension between the main characters in the story and sustains our interest in that tension admirably. There's a lot to "see" -- some interesting backdrops to the story, and we really begin to be able to visualize details of the Nighthawk and other key spacecraft. Interesting alien species and at last we get a sense of what the real "Phoenix Conspiracy" is.This is a "middle" book, and Sanders could have handled the conclusion of this volume with more aplomb, but it's still a good and intersting story, but had I not been able to read the second and third books the SAME NIGHT, I would have been irritated to have to wait on the third.I wish I could have given this one four and a half stars, because it really shows good technical improvement over the first, and does not disappoint in the pace.HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ADVENTURE, suitable for younger readersCharacters - BPlot - A-Settings A-