Review: "Fey" was well done but I liked its prequel, "StarFire", a lot better.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 17, 2013
Well, this is kind of awkward.  I read "StarFire," the prequel to "Fay," and gave it high marks here, and now that I have finished "Fay" I find that I liked StarFire's straight military science fiction much better than I did "Fey' with it fantasy aspects.While the writing in "Fey" is of the same very good quality as in "StarFire," and the main characters were well developed and believable, hero, ex-Marine Major Vince Lombard as a professional gambler in "Fey" just didn't resonate with me as much as Vince Lombard the Marine Officer in "StarFire" did.I like military SF a lot more than Fantasy, so perhaps this is just a matter of taste.