Review: could have been great
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 18, 2012
I just finished readying the first three books in this series.  This third installment has some of the most incredible, awesome, and exciting special forces action sequences so far.  If that was it, I would have given it 5 stars.  However, the space battle action is really really poorly done.  Unlike the first book, where the author is conscientious about listing rates of acceleration and velocities and having the various maneuvers and gambits make sense in that context, in this book he can't seem to be bothered to do that work and we get just a lot of adjectives that amount to, "they were going really fast."  Some of the space action just doesn't make sense.  The author even fails to give us an account of how many ships each sides looses after a major battle and you are left wondering who actually won. It's as if the author just wrote the last half of the book stream of consciousness and didn't both to go back and re-read any of it to see if it made sense.  When stuff doesn't make sense it destroys my suspension of disbelief, and that is the very definition of bad science fiction.  I sincerely hope the author spends more time on the fourth book and adds the kind of detail and conscientious work to the space battles that made them so compelling in the first book.This book does a good job of avoiding smutty sex and anti-christian themes.