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A review by pjonsson
Exodus: Empires at War #1 by Doug Dandridge
3.0
When I read the description of the story I thought: “this sounds promising”. Indeed it is a promising start but it was a somewhat difficult book to read. A lot of the book is, not surprisingly, spent on the initial world building. However this felt somewhat disorganized. It felt like it was jumping all over the place with different stories and characters and some of them did not really feel like they were going anywhere others felt like they were just skimping over major past events.
In general the book is quite good reading though. The different parts are well written individually. The starship action, how ships manoeuvre in space and how they fight is believable as is the technology, the way their FTL technology worked, and their weaponry.
In this first book I did not really get that much attachment to any of the characters. I think this was due to the world building and somewhat “jumping around” style the book was written in. I hope it will get better with the next book. I assume that we will be following the young prince somewhat closer in that one for instance.
The book is building up to a certain amount of stupid politics which gives me cause for some concern. I hope the next book doesn’t go overboard in that area. That would really ruin the otherwise promising start.
In general this book makes me want to read the next one though.
In general the book is quite good reading though. The different parts are well written individually. The starship action, how ships manoeuvre in space and how they fight is believable as is the technology, the way their FTL technology worked, and their weaponry.
In this first book I did not really get that much attachment to any of the characters. I think this was due to the world building and somewhat “jumping around” style the book was written in. I hope it will get better with the next book. I assume that we will be following the young prince somewhat closer in that one for instance.
The book is building up to a certain amount of stupid politics which gives me cause for some concern. I hope the next book doesn’t go overboard in that area. That would really ruin the otherwise promising start.
In general this book makes me want to read the next one though.