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kennesaw59 's review for:
Dauntless
by Jack Campbell
This is the first book of a six part series, the series starts very strong and seems to run out of ideas about book 4.
Overall I liked it, the author (John G. Hemry, writing under the pseudonym Jack Campbell) really knows how to make a space battle interesting. He has a very strict set of physics he follows, which does not allow FTL during battles. He does allow FTL as a mechanism to quickly move between star systems, but once in a star system .2 C is about as fast a ship can travel. This is fast enough to require relativistic effects to play a large part in battles. Hemry's experience with navel battles gives these books a much higher degree of realism than most other stories of space battles.
Unfortunately Hemry's ability to develop believable characters is nowhere near as good as his ability to vividly describe a space battle. His dialog is very redundant and predictable. This would make the books unreadable if there were not so many action sequences. I think that is why the final two books in the series are so bad. He simply ran out of combat and had to tie up the lose ends with his characters which was very difficult to get through.
Overall I liked it, the author (John G. Hemry, writing under the pseudonym Jack Campbell) really knows how to make a space battle interesting. He has a very strict set of physics he follows, which does not allow FTL during battles. He does allow FTL as a mechanism to quickly move between star systems, but once in a star system .2 C is about as fast a ship can travel. This is fast enough to require relativistic effects to play a large part in battles. Hemry's experience with navel battles gives these books a much higher degree of realism than most other stories of space battles.
Unfortunately Hemry's ability to develop believable characters is nowhere near as good as his ability to vividly describe a space battle. His dialog is very redundant and predictable. This would make the books unreadable if there were not so many action sequences. I think that is why the final two books in the series are so bad. He simply ran out of combat and had to tie up the lose ends with his characters which was very difficult to get through.