Review: Excellent First-of-of-New-Series Book
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 1, 2014
I found Yorktown to be an excellent first novel for a series.  The captain an crew are believable and competent, if not very three-dimensional yet.  The action sequences are well paced and fun to read.  There is quite a bit of subtle humor and references to other books and movies that provide a moment for a quick smile. The writing style is sparse -- a particularly attractive style from my perspective.  A lot of the between-action-interludes are quite terse -- they fulfill the task of establishing the current political climate, provide time and space for the ship to get refit and resupplied, and then the crew is off to the next phase of the task at hand.  The whole book is a basically a collection of set-piece actions -- but it all works quite nicely.  Setback and disasters are dealt with and don't often have second- and third-order implications that you you have to watch out for. Instead, the crew just professionally moves along fixing things and getting ready for the next battle.  The aliens are sufficiently strang to make them interesting, and you just now that humans politician are being hoodwinked by alien declarations towards the end of the first book.  We can expect to see a lot more Capt. Krieger and her team the book.  I'm quite looking forward to the second installment.