Review: I read it almost to the end and gave up
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 02 3, 2012
I like Firefly and Star Wars and I see the comparison.  This book and author have potential but at this point I do not plan to read anything else in the series. I expect low cost/free books to have spelling errors, grammatical errors and just plain using the wrong words.  While jarring there was no more than normal for a first time unedited book.  As usual proofreading would have helped.  The story and plot lines are acceptably derivative.  Unfortunately the writer needs to find a good group of friends or a local writers group to help him learn how to smooth the pace out.  It reads as a series of shouted and disjointed distinct utterances instead of flowing smoothly.  Think of grade school when the teacher had everyone in class take turns reading a sentence out of a textbook.  Now compare that to a professional audio book.  The jerky, halting and stumbling narrative is just more than I can handle.  All this negative stuff being said, there are good bones here.  If the author took a "How to write a book" class at the local junior college and based it on this manuscript then the results would be about equal to standard journeyman mass produced series book.  It could be cleaned up to be the equivalent of a basic Star Wars, War Hammer 40k, or Battle Tech novel.  But in it's current form I just could not read the last 20-30 pages.  I quit in the very last couple of chapters.