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moux's review
4.0
I really enjoyed this book. At times it was a bit tough to follow, especially with all the different alien races; trying to keep track of who was what and what they looked like was a bit of a challenge, but overall I really enjoyed reading this book and am keen to start the next book.
haunted_by_humans's review
1.0
The premise sounded great and I enjoyed the beginning but it just kinda fizzled out for me and just felt kinda muddled. I’ve heard so many glowing reviews for this book though, so hopefully I’ll try to pick this up again in the future!
mrella's review
1.0
I am a mean and vicious human and I am about to stab somebody's baby in the guts with an alien machete. If you have a problem with it, move along, if not - feel free to proceed.
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1.
There are more alien species in these 150 pages than in all five Star Treks combined.
Too much info is cramped into too short of a book. The author is overly descriptive and repetitive where it comes to tiniest details.
There are too many words that leave no room for emotional side of the story. The book is a list of events, without a chance for us to connect with what is happening and/or the characters. The only emotion came with an overused "male" ("the other male", "big male", "his male" and so on) and that emotion was frustration.
A grocery list is more emotional than this book.
2.
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MINOR spoilers below.
The overwhelming majority of aliens despise mean and treacherous humans.... oh, no, no, wait!!! There isn't a single human in this book. However, there is a lot of talk about vicious corporations. But no real, flesh and blood, humans, no :/
It only takes about 10% of the book to figure out that Zeus is not really human. Yet no one in the book notices that for a very very long time.
And so Zeus is hated for being "human", especially by Captain Wasshispants, whose ding-dong nevertheless popped up and proclaimed itself mated to Zeus after he had sniffed the man once.
The good Captain is on important mission - he is smuggling to safety a royal family rescued from the evil humans, who experimented on them.
The crew knows about the royal family, the crew interacts with them every day, the crew supports them and helps them, the crew hangs out with them, the crew is being kind and gentle to them. And yet every single one of those space idiots under the good Captain's command fail to see that Zues, who they also know pretty well, is re-lat-ed to the fa-mi-ly, as in bro-ther-slash-sis-ter car-bon co-py, same D.N.A kind of re-la-ted. And so they continue hating him.
3.
To get you an idea what the writing is like with all descriptions (no always word for word, but pretty close):
... purple [creature] with blue antennae on her ridged forehead ran half a meter,
... "a massive guy, a half meter below three meters tall" (kid you not! - Mrella),
... her body covered in black and white silky fur, her tail, curled up above her head, twitching.
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Not sure I will try any more books by this author :/
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1.
There are more alien species in these 150 pages than in all five Star Treks combined.
Too much info is cramped into too short of a book. The author is overly descriptive and repetitive where it comes to tiniest details.
There are too many words that leave no room for emotional side of the story. The book is a list of events, without a chance for us to connect with what is happening and/or the characters. The only emotion came with an overused "male" ("the other male", "big male", "his male" and so on) and that emotion was frustration.
A grocery list is more emotional than this book.
2.
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MINOR spoilers below.
The overwhelming majority of aliens despise mean and treacherous humans.... oh, no, no, wait!!! There isn't a single human in this book. However, there is a lot of talk about vicious corporations. But no real, flesh and blood, humans, no :/
It only takes about 10% of the book to figure out that Zeus is not really human. Yet no one in the book notices that for a very very long time.
And so Zeus is hated for being "human", especially by Captain Wasshispants, whose ding-dong nevertheless popped up and proclaimed itself mated to Zeus after he had sniffed the man once.
The good Captain is on important mission - he is smuggling to safety a royal family rescued from the evil humans, who experimented on them.
The crew knows about the royal family, the crew interacts with them every day, the crew supports them and helps them, the crew hangs out with them, the crew is being kind and gentle to them. And yet every single one of those space idiots under the good Captain's command fail to see that Zues, who they also know pretty well, is re-lat-ed to the fa-mi-ly, as in bro-ther-slash-sis-ter car-bon co-py, same D.N.A kind of re-la-ted. And so they continue hating him.
3.
To get you an idea what the writing is like with all descriptions (no always word for word, but pretty close):
... purple [creature] with blue antennae on her ridged forehead ran half a meter,
... "a massive guy, a half meter below three meters tall" (kid you not! - Mrella),
... her body covered in black and white silky fur, her tail, curled up above her head, twitching.
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Not sure I will try any more books by this author :/
samanatha's review
4.0
3.5/5
This was enjoyable. I’m a little concerned the series won’t be finished. It looks like book 2 of 3 came out in 2014 with no date assigned to book 3. That makes me like this less.
It was fairly enjoyable. I had hoped to see more of the violent captain from Dargon but he rolled over like a puppy fairly quickly. I like the dream sequences and the questions of the missing brother (s?). It seems like it could be a good space drama if it were finished.
This was enjoyable. I’m a little concerned the series won’t be finished. It looks like book 2 of 3 came out in 2014 with no date assigned to book 3. That makes me like this less.
It was fairly enjoyable. I had hoped to see more of the violent captain from Dargon but he rolled over like a puppy fairly quickly. I like the dream sequences and the questions of the missing brother (s?). It seems like it could be a good space drama if it were finished.
ld2's review
3.0
The story was fun and the character concept was interesting. I think this story is the first in a series. There's definitely a lot of loose ends that need to be tied up.
pauliree's review
4.0
A complex science fiction action adventure that also happens to be an mmm? romance. I must admit the addition of Alpha in the relationship confused me a little, but I didn't let that detract from the wonderful cornucopia of alien species each with their own special abilities. The plot is simple but the setting is very complex so mostly this is for lovers of sf
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