Review: Very well done hard-science deep-space epic...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 8, 2013
A definite page-turner, this one was hard to put down, and did leave me wanting more and quickly.  The people are pretty believable, the action is intense and well thought out, and I think this was about two fingernails worth of tightly packed and well-written adventure.(Yeah, there's a lot of 'oh-crap, oh-crap... oh no!' moments in it.)The only problem I had (and this isn't really a problem so much as it's just kind of an irregularity) is that relative velocities and distances didn't make a whole lot of sense at times.  But my brain's kinda picky like that.  Plus - in space a chemical explosive won't pack much kick unless you're right >< next to the item you're wanting to blow up.  And I mean RIGHT next to - I think a gap of fifty feet or more between the boom-stuff and the target will (unless you've got a shaped charge going, which is kind of harder to focus) just kind of expand into the void.  A vacuum is very bad for transmitting shock waves.  But that's a minor quibble, as far as I'm concerned.Overall?  Well worth the money, and I look forward to the next in the series.