A review by arkobla
Dauntless by Jack Campbell

4.0

I stumbled upon a later book in this series that caught my interest. As usually, I don't like to start a series in the middle, so I looked up book 1. All too often, book 1 doesn't grab me as much as the new book and I pass. Not so this time. I picked up the book and read the first chapter and was immediately impressed. I like naval fiction and have classified this sci-fi book in a similiar way. It has a feel of historical naval fiction because of the style of combat, (time lag in maneuvers) and other nuances. Ultimately, for me, I had to like the main Character - Jack Geary to like the novel and I did. He feels right for his circumstances. He speaks his inner voice in one that holds true.

this novel takes place a hundred years into the war with the syndics, after a battle that has crippled the alliance fleet. You get a sense of the polictics and effort that got the alliance to this point, but it's all clouded from Jack as he wakes up from a hundred year sleepover in an escape pod. You see, he is a legend now, from actions done during the first years of the war and all thought he was lost in that last engagement. Turns out he wasn't...and he brings his reputatio and his old school way of doing things into the future to help the alliance get out of the predicament it's in.

Overall, I very much enjoyed this installment and have already purchased book 2 to read...