Review: Good but not great
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 20, 2013
The overall story has a good basis to it and is quite creative.  However, the scifi is super soft, the author really glosses over almost every bit of technology which forces you to accept it and go along for the ride.  Sometimes the story doesn't flow or there are significant issues that make you scratch your head or just call BS. Characters and character development are okay, but not great. He also uses every scifi cliche in the book, down to the Luke Skywalker - Darth Vader sword fight, which comes off pretty campy.  Good guys are human, bad guys are giant cogent insects. I also got the impression that the author was really pushing female characters - with the exception of a very few characters, all significant male roles are either dead, evil, incompetent or subservient.  The one good thing is that the author is offering the entire series in one book, which isn't all that long, so I have no idea how the author could have chopped it up into 12 little pieces to begin with.