Review: Steadily Downhill After Book 1 - Save Your Money
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 25, 2011
I read the first book in the series after picking it up for free during Read an eBook week, then bought the compilation of Books 1-3 while wanting to continue the journey of John and Charlie.Book 1 was great - a believable plot and technology, good character interaction, and storyline sequencing from the author.Book 2 had a few rough spots as there appeared to be a lot of assumptions about what was going on, with subsequent backtracking by the author to get you up to speed, with the dramatic conclusion being kind of "iffy" from a believability standpoint.  In other words, the last 25% of the book began to get a little weird.Book 3 has the characters off on a new rescue / mission of indeterminate need - if there was a purpose, I'll never know it as I put the book down, never to be picked up again: that's saying a lot as I rarely just stop reading a book where I have invested this much time.  The writing style seems much different comparing book 1 to book 3, which makes you wonder if it was the same author or has the author changed his own style significantly in the time between the writing of the books.  From really foul language, a totally unnecessary human-on-alien sex scene, to just a very hard to follow / jerky writing style book 3 is just another in the long line of science fiction garbage.If you've read book 1, I'd recommend stopping right then as it was a great story.  The slope downhill with Book 2 and Book 3 will just make you mad and be disappointed so save your money and don't buy this compilation.