Another space opera, and unfortunately it fails in the typical areas of science and logic. The story might have been a lot better with a little more work on the technical aspects.
Here are more of my usual gripes with much of the SF Space Opera and Military SF out there:
Too easy!
1. Too Easy. Everything goes too easy. The heroes rarely face a problem they can't easily fix. Completely new spaceships pose no challenge to the crew. New space fighters only take a couple of hours to learn, etc.
2. A space marine that lets one of its captains just sit around and do whatever he likes. Yeah, as if that is going to happen.
3. The aliens are shape shifters... a good alien prince is on humanity's side, and -- lo and behold! -- there's another race capable of shape changing who are the real antagonists.
4. The weaponry doesn't always make sense. Missiles or torpedoes or something else? (Hey, when we get down to it, what is the difference?
5. Forcefields and armor and... I dunno. I forgot. And that's the curse that applies to this series: it ain't worth remembering.
The Verdict
Extremely forgettable.
Too easy! Again!
And please, please, please, please, please please double please dear SF authors... stop making things easy. There's a reason why the military train so hard, and it isn't because they're all dumb. We don't need the literary equivalent of the 'movie montage', or a sixty three page recount of yet another Scifi bootcamp, but please think things through.
Dapper / TellTales! #119
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