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pjonsson's review against another edition
3.0
This book really spent too much time on the politics and political machinations between the three main nations in the main plot. It’s a shame really for the first three books where quite good. This one was not so much my cup of tea though.
The book spends a huge amount of time on the politics and intrigues of Sector nine and their plans to bring about general chaos and, in particular, kill Captain Tyler Barron. The intrigues are worthy of the old Roman Empire palace intrigues. This is not what I hoped for. The previous books have been more focused on the military campaign, the action and the fleet combat.
There are some of this in this book as well and what is there is quite good but I wanted more of this and less of the despicable, cowardly political crap. Also, they shoot up the Dauntless…again. For crying out load, why does it seem to be a standard formula, among book and script writers alike, to make a ship famous and then shoot it to pieces every so often. It’s annoying as well as stupid from a realism point of view. You can only repair heavy damage to a ship so many times and sometimes not at all.
Overall the book, the writing, the characters and the world building is good. Quite good actually. The content of the story however is not what I wanted.
Hopefully the next book is more about the military campaign and less about the political bullshit.
The book spends a huge amount of time on the politics and intrigues of Sector nine and their plans to bring about general chaos and, in particular, kill Captain Tyler Barron. The intrigues are worthy of the old Roman Empire palace intrigues. This is not what I hoped for. The previous books have been more focused on the military campaign, the action and the fleet combat.
There are some of this in this book as well and what is there is quite good but I wanted more of this and less of the despicable, cowardly political crap. Also, they shoot up the Dauntless…again. For crying out load, why does it seem to be a standard formula, among book and script writers alike, to make a ship famous and then shoot it to pieces every so often. It’s annoying as well as stupid from a realism point of view. You can only repair heavy damage to a ship so many times and sometimes not at all.
Overall the book, the writing, the characters and the world building is good. Quite good actually. The content of the story however is not what I wanted.
Hopefully the next book is more about the military campaign and less about the political bullshit.
orphan_of_you's review against another edition
5.0
Dauntless rocks
I've never been a space epic sci-fi guy but I'm hopelessly addicted to the series. Tyler and crew are so cool and I need to know how it ends.
I've never been a space epic sci-fi guy but I'm hopelessly addicted to the series. Tyler and crew are so cool and I need to know how it ends.
justaguy's review against another edition
3.0
This one is missed
The story is fairly interesting. Yet, I couldn’t get past the repetitiveness on certain topics. Where readers should already know by now with the fourth book in the series. And Stockton thing is so terrible. The author should either say nothing or remove him out completely. Back to the story, the coup plot and temporary alliance are cool but seem like the story is already set. That’s how I feeling about it. There’s no twist or negative consequence...it just a weird white knight syndrome thing.
The story is fairly interesting. Yet, I couldn’t get past the repetitiveness on certain topics. Where readers should already know by now with the fourth book in the series. And Stockton thing is so terrible. The author should either say nothing or remove him out completely. Back to the story, the coup plot and temporary alliance are cool but seem like the story is already set. That’s how I feeling about it. There’s no twist or negative consequence...it just a weird white knight syndrome thing.
justaguy's review against another edition
3.0
This one is missed
The story is fairly interesting. Yet, I couldn’t get past the repetitiveness on certain topics. Where readers should already know by now with the fourth book in the series. And Stockton thing is so terrible. The author should either say nothing or remove him out completely. Back to the story, the coup plot and temporary alliance are cool but seem like the story is already set. That’s how I feeling about it. There’s no twist or negative consequence...it just a weird white knight syndrome thing.
The story is fairly interesting. Yet, I couldn’t get past the repetitiveness on certain topics. Where readers should already know by now with the fourth book in the series. And Stockton thing is so terrible. The author should either say nothing or remove him out completely. Back to the story, the coup plot and temporary alliance are cool but seem like the story is already set. That’s how I feeling about it. There’s no twist or negative consequence...it just a weird white knight syndrome thing.
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