Review: Good book that could be better
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 23, 2013
I really like this series and I see a lot of potential in it, but for a book that was quite long not a lot happened.  The 2nd book and this one could have easily of been condensed into one book I think.  If the goal of the series in the end is to see the Federation restored I'm guessing we will see that sometime around book 20.  Also like others have mentioned the formatting sucks somewhat.  You are left to guess when the point of view changes in the book.  Outside of the end of chapters there is nothing to indicate that you are reading about someone else or there has been a time jump to a different scene.  Sometimes the change is so subtle that I'm not sure exactly where the change in POV happens.  I suppose that something got lost when it was translated into kindle format, but it's been this way for 3 books now.In someways this reminds me of David Weber's Honor Harrington series, but Chris has Weber's problem of talking to much about technical and engineering aspects of the books.  I didn't mind him talking about this all that much other than it seemed to be at the expense of what action there was in the book.  I do still plan to read more books in this series and I gave this book three stars because I believe it could be much better.