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manlymangilly's review against another edition
4.0
This is a fantastic series.
I love fantasy and scifi and was in a slump looking for a decent series and struggling with the excessive romance and/or outrageous misogyny in so many scifi/fantasy novels. I wanted a good adventure with likable and relatable characters without melodramatic love triangles or excessive objectification of women.
And I found one!
This series is a gem of scifi that manages to ride the line of technical without being boring. It has a clever combination of characters and keeps you interested the whole way through. I laughed out loud countless times reading these books.
Is it perfect? No, but it's a bloody fun time.
My only complaints can be boiled down to 2 things (mild spoiler alert point 2).
1. It gets repetitive. Some of the phrases are repeated continuously throughout the books, and some of the middle books feel a bit "rinse and repeat". But when it's repeating fun stuff you can give it a bit of grace.
2. The strong female love interest becomes a bit lame once in a relationship. It's not too bad, but was a bit disappointing to see a badass marine turn into a petty manipulative girlfriend suddenly. Fortunately, she seems to snap out of it!
Overall, it's a series that doesn't take itself too seriously, and brings you characters that feel alive.
Definitely recommend.
I love fantasy and scifi and was in a slump looking for a decent series and struggling with the excessive romance and/or outrageous misogyny in so many scifi/fantasy novels. I wanted a good adventure with likable and relatable characters without melodramatic love triangles or excessive objectification of women.
And I found one!
This series is a gem of scifi that manages to ride the line of technical without being boring. It has a clever combination of characters and keeps you interested the whole way through. I laughed out loud countless times reading these books.
Is it perfect? No, but it's a bloody fun time.
My only complaints can be boiled down to 2 things (mild spoiler alert point 2).
1. It gets repetitive. Some of the phrases are repeated continuously throughout the books, and some of the middle books feel a bit "rinse and repeat". But when it's repeating fun stuff you can give it a bit of grace.
2. The strong female love interest becomes a bit lame once in a relationship. It's not too bad, but was a bit disappointing to see a badass marine turn into a petty manipulative girlfriend suddenly. Fortunately, she seems to snap out of it!
Overall, it's a series that doesn't take itself too seriously, and brings you characters that feel alive.
Definitely recommend.
barbtrek's review against another edition
3.0
I started this as an audiobook a few years ago and couldn’t get into it. I saw it was available on Kindle unlimited so thought it wouldn’t hurt to give it another try. This is usually the type of story I love but I struggled through a lot of this. I feel like this is a perfect example of an author telling instead of showing. There were so many pages of the history of the conflict blah blah blah with no dialogue just not stop info dump & I didn’t care enough not to skim through it. When there was dialogue it was great. And I liked Skippy a lot. I just don’t think I liked this enough to continue the series.
ajengg's review
5.0
Awesome. Love how technical affordances are used when talking about aliens and their morphology.
scottwcoleman's review
adventurous
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
kwerle's review against another edition
3.0
On the low end of 3 stars. May be a better audio book? Probably only read the series in small doses.
rsjpeckham's review against another edition
3.0
Was close to DNF until Skippy made the book fun. He was easily the best part of the story.
misterjay's review against another edition
4.0
Multiple warring alien races at different levels of technology, all of whom care not one whit about us puny humans save for our outstanding ability to be used as cannon-fodder and our only hope a snarky deus ex-machina that looks like a beer can? If ever there was a book tailor made for me, this is it.
The plot comes fast and furious in Columbus Day, delivered by a likable soldier in a matter-of-fact tone, which more than makes up for some awkwardly stiff secondary characters and one-note alien menaces. The writing is fun, the story engaging, and the series long. I'm here for it.
The plot comes fast and furious in Columbus Day, delivered by a likable soldier in a matter-of-fact tone, which more than makes up for some awkwardly stiff secondary characters and one-note alien menaces. The writing is fun, the story engaging, and the series long. I'm here for it.
slinkypaladin's review
5.0
A whole book finished but the journey has just begun. "Columbus day" has everything: captivating action, great character building and a lot of humor. I expect nothing less from other books in this series.
Even though the book starts with an action scene, an apocalypse you could say, I still found it a bit slow. It took almost half of the book to pick up the pace, but it never got boring.
Even though the book starts with an action scene, an apocalypse you could say, I still found it a bit slow. It took almost half of the book to pick up the pace, but it never got boring.
brian_lassiter's review against another edition
3.0
A tale of two stories. Midway through the book the tone of the story changes dramatically. I enjoyed both, but it was a little disconcerting at first.