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Galactic Vigilante by T. Jackson King

pjonsson's review

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4.0

This book follows straight from the previous one in the Vigilante Series. Matt gets command of the 500+ T’Chak Dreadnought which means that it is clobbertime. With this book the story has now expanded from the original lone vigilante to a regular war where fleets of 100+ capital ships clash.

The action is as done in the rather special hyper accelerated time of the AI’s which Matt, being a cyborg, can enter for short periods of time. This makes the action in this book a bit different from most science fiction novels which, to me, is a good thing. It makes the book more interesting to read. Matt and the other “organics” interaction with the T’Chak AI’s is another thing that makes this book stick out a bit from the crowd and makes it a fun read.

The book advances the story nicely and during the course of the book we also follow the Anarchate in their attempts to stop Matt. We do not only get to follow his direct adversaries but also get a few glimpses of the bigger scope of the Anarchate and the huge machinery that Matt have just pushed into motion by his actions.

In general this is a well read-worthy book with plenty of action, enjoyable characters (including the AI’s) and a bit of a special touch from the AI and Cyborg elements that, in my limited experience at least, makes the series stick out a bit from the average crowd of science fiction novels.
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