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madags's review
5.0
- I leave with all my people or none at all! She's nuts, but she did it! And to have your daughter come back from the dead, after having (grrrr!) watched her execution on screen... /Headshake. If the Graysons adored their iconic Captain before, it's screaming worship after she returns from the dead at the head of the biggest breakout in mankinds history.
betsychadwell's review
3.0
[30 August 2019]
This is my fourth read, I think. While I enjoyed it overall, again, it was very frustrating too. This is the first book of the series that was essentially overtaken by exposition. Starting with this book, Weber spends an excruciating amount of verbiage in political explanations, history, naval theory, and tech porn. Pages and pages and pages. Part of that is almost required to support the complexity of his world building, but Weber is notorious for going overboard. I was so angry with it this time -- even though I was able to skim a lot of it -- that I changed my rating from 5 stars to 3.
This is my fourth read, I think. While I enjoyed it overall, again, it was very frustrating too. This is the first book of the series that was essentially overtaken by exposition. Starting with this book, Weber spends an excruciating amount of verbiage in political explanations, history, naval theory, and tech porn. Pages and pages and pages. Part of that is almost required to support the complexity of his world building, but Weber is notorious for going overboard. I was so angry with it this time -- even though I was able to skim a lot of it -- that I changed my rating from 5 stars to 3.
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