Review: mildly entertaining with some issues I did not like
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 5, 2012
This is kind of a long short story.It tells the story of an officer who assumes the captaincy of her ship when the ship's captain dies in battle.People who like their military sci-fi to be more realistic (as I do) will have trouble with the military system the book portrays. No military works the way this book suggests. This book actually has senior officers that leave their posts in the middle of a battle for no good reason. Really?I also had issues with the technology presented. "Polarize the hull"? Didn't like it. Just turn on the shields. Didn't like the supposed high energy weapons that the navy doles out in such limited quantities apparently because they are too effective. Didn't buy it. Didn't like the giant ship the reptile aliens showed up in out of the blue either. It just is not realistic to make a jump to a vessel that is 10X the size of the enemy's previous vessels.Jump drives. Black holes. OK. Not sure how they survived the black hole though. And finding a lost pilot on the other side of the black hole seemed kind of convenient, not withstanding how a fighter type spacecraft is going to do any good against the reptilian behemoth that followed them into the black hole.It seems almost like the author went around to a bunch of different space operas and selected elements out of each and tried to make them into a story. Didn't like that approach either. I think it needs a bit of a rewrite to turn it from a mediocre story into a much better one.