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pjonsson's review
4.0
Make no mistake about it, this a fairly light reading. The entire story of this series is really somewhat on the weird side. It is not exactly hard science fiction. The main character is the ship itself, or rather the AI that runs the ship. Actually, I should probably write characters in plural since he has split himself off in multiple personalities. As I wrote, weird.
It is a fairly fun light read though. Whether it is an AI or a actual person the characters have a lot of the kick-ass qualities that we are used to see on a character in Michael Anderle’s Kurtherian universe.
The story is not bad with plenty of both entertaining dialogue, adventure and kick-ass action. One thing that I am getting a bit tired of though is that Reynolds, the super-dreadnought, gets hammered to pieces…again. I do not understand why so many authors seems to go down this route. It is both unrealistic and not very funny to see the same ship getting shot to pieces in every episode or book. I liked it much more when Bethany Anne’s super-dreadnoughts were just that, super-dreadnoughts kicking ass and if anything was going to be shot to pieces, it was them doing the shooting.
I really liked the twist about halfway into the book though. I am obviously not going to spoil it so you just have to trust me on that. However, together with the new aliens that Reynolds & Co encounters there could indeed be some cool stuff coming up in the next book or books.
I’m probably going to be picking up the fifth installment a little earlier than I thought now.
It is a fairly fun light read though. Whether it is an AI or a actual person the characters have a lot of the kick-ass qualities that we are used to see on a character in Michael Anderle’s Kurtherian universe.
The story is not bad with plenty of both entertaining dialogue, adventure and kick-ass action. One thing that I am getting a bit tired of though is that Reynolds, the super-dreadnought, gets hammered to pieces…again. I do not understand why so many authors seems to go down this route. It is both unrealistic and not very funny to see the same ship getting shot to pieces in every episode or book. I liked it much more when Bethany Anne’s super-dreadnoughts were just that, super-dreadnoughts kicking ass and if anything was going to be shot to pieces, it was them doing the shooting.
I really liked the twist about halfway into the book though. I am obviously not going to spoil it so you just have to trust me on that. However, together with the new aliens that Reynolds & Co encounters there could indeed be some cool stuff coming up in the next book or books.
I’m probably going to be picking up the fifth installment a little earlier than I thought now.
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