Review: Is this book a secret?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 19, 2013
I see I'm only the 6th person to review this book, and its been out for awhile... Doesn't the author's family and friends like him enough to post fake 5-star reviews? Fortunately I stumbled into this little gem by following the reviews of Sixiron and Volpot...best way to find books is when I read something, I find a reviewer that agrees with my opinion and then go through their reviews.Firestar is really a good book and I found myself of two minds on it for a bit. On the one hand, its tightly scripted action and the author's ability to advance plot through solid dialog made for a well paced space adventure. On the other hand, the author obviously loves Honor Harrington and isn't shy about borrowing...for some of the book this kinda bothered me a little, pulling me out of the story.But at some point it occurred to me how many times I've sat reading space adventure and thought to myself "well that's just stupid...why can't these authors read Weber and see how a space battle is supposed to work?". And to be honest, I enjoyed this book more than some of Weber's recent works. But the "cat" thing was a bit much  ;PI also agree with another reviewer that the topic of sex really needed to be addressed...the idea seems to be that since there's only 2% male population, that the women not only have zero sex drive, but don't even know what it is.Overall though, I'm looking forward to picking up the next book just as soon as I finish typing this...while Firestar had a very solid ending (I really enjoyed dragging out the bad guys (gals) comeuppance), there is are much bigger things afoot. I would say that for most of the book I would give it 4 stars...it bumped up to 4.5 once the s*** hit the fan towards the end...and is a nobrainer 5 -star for the price of $1.99.