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A review by kellswitch
Space Captain Smith by Toby Frost
2.0
A very awkward start, and over all a fairly awkward book it did improve as it went on. Overall not horrible book but not great book either.
The conceit of the book, Victorian era British colonialism played out in the future and with star systems vs. the continents on Earth could end up being an enjoyable one, but at least in this first book it was handled so clumsily and one dimensionally at times that it took me right out of the story, the characters and situations were just to unbelievable to get very involved in and care about.
This is the first book in the series as well as the authors first book in general and I can see potential in it the concept, I'm just not sure I'm interested enough to try the next book.
The conceit of the book, Victorian era British colonialism played out in the future and with star systems vs. the continents on Earth could end up being an enjoyable one, but at least in this first book it was handled so clumsily and one dimensionally at times that it took me right out of the story, the characters and situations were just to unbelievable to get very involved in and care about.
This is the first book in the series as well as the authors first book in general and I can see potential in it the concept, I'm just not sure I'm interested enough to try the next book.