Review: A potentially good series
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 3, 2013
I am a fan of SCI-FI and have a budget so I stroll among the lower cost books quite a bit.  After reading the reviews, it seemed for the most part that the complaints were formatting/ editing related, not so much a poor story, so I slapped down my 99 cents and started reading.This is NOT a politically correct book.  It is definitely conservative in nature.  But given the protagonists, it makes sense for the book / series.This is a space opera with a slightly different twist in the beginning.  You don't have aliens ravishing the Earth all starting at page 3.  Turns out we can do that all by ourselves...maybe...  :)The premise of the book is that a Seeker has roamed thousands of dimensions looking for the human race.  It finds that for one reason or another in various dimensions, humans don't exist anymore and for the most part, the parallel Earths are all trashed as well.Then the Seeker makes it to our dimension and finds the Human Race.  Establishes contact and the story rolls from there.PROS:Interesting storyline, one that has not been overdone in recent years in popular SCI-FI reading.Likable characters.Not as much military speak as some of the novels that seem to focus on a given branch of the military(Navy in this case) but some of what there is can get a bit deep.Middle Range:The writing is a bit simplistic.  I thought the characters were too willing to accept the Seeker initially at face value.  They should have been more suspiciously inclined.The format is a bit odd as well.  The author sets the stage many times through the book almost like it is a screen play instead of a novel.  Those segments should be written in as part of they story as the setting is part of the story.  Not enough to detract from the overall story, just enough oddity to be noticable.The story moves along fairly well in the short term but seems a bit slow in what I would see as the overall plot.  But then this will be a series so that's probably intentional.  It was still a good read from that perspective.In my opinion, the interaction between the military characters is 'out of character' in a true military environment.  It's too friendly between some enlisted and officer ranks.  A quibble I know but a lot of folks that read this type of book are ex-military.CON:Knowing that there were some editing issues, I am still surprised at the amount of editing this 2nd copy needs to have done.  While the grammar seems to be good, the over usage of CAPITALIZATION really hurts the eyes.  I hope in a future revision of this book, that will be corrected or at least reduced in intensity.Summary:  I liked it a lot and as soon as I finished book one, I bought the 2nd book.  Hopefully the editing is a bit better.  I'll let you know.