Review: Mindless space opera slides to four stars with inexpensive pricing
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 26, 2014
This is sequel to Ark Royal which was slightly better.  But still good fun at a very reasonable price.Like all of Christopher Nuttall's books this is a good military science fiction where the good guys win and are able to overcome extreme odds because they are just plain better than the bad guys. In first book Ark Royal Aliens invade for unknown reasons and suddenly the Earth space fleets have to unite to fend off this attack on the race.  This book continues with a deep space mission to attack the aliens in their home space.  Not everything is explained.  Like why did the aliens attack?  The author is unclear if he admires or hates royalty and the royal prince's role is just a distraction.  But the author uses royalty in many of his books and perhaps he has a future meatier role envisioned.The fleet fighting against overwhelming odds, cut off from it's return home fighting it's way though enemy territory has been done better by Jack Campbell in his Lost stars series or even better by David Weber and Steve White in "in Death Ground", "Crusade", "the Shiva Option"...This book is slightly better than "The Frontiers Saga" by Ryk Brown.But the story moves along nicely. The sex is not so explicit ot make this inappropriate for young readers and the good guys win only to return to an earth which has been attacked.