Review: Excellent Space Opera
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 28, 2013
This is good stuff and well written. The main story line of getting the prince to safety is fine (with one exception: how often can you escape thousands of missiles thrown at you? How often does the reader has to read through the agonies of the captain and his crew waiting for the sky to fall? And how many ships have to die to get a young man to safety?)., the other side stories are also well written and action packed. I believe that the story could have had a faster pace - and to have a young prince throwing his weight around against the wishes of an experienced admiral does not sit very well with me. Should not have somebody pointed out to him that every delay of getting to the coronation could cause a civil war - and not leave this to the end when the prince seems to be surprised that he has to be crowned first? This seems also to be an absolute monarchy and I wonder whether in several thousands years ahead this would be possible considering technological advances. But this is SF, and very good SF. The writing and editing is excellent. Up to now the author has not fallen into the series trap where actions decreases and philosophical meandering increases.This is an action story, and it never stops (except when one of the many thousand missiles attacks makes everyone slow down for courageous agonizing and looking death into its eye).  I like the book very much, tried to read it in one sitting (unsuccessfully) and have just bought book 4.