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I thought the author missed a great chance to play the drunk-sex scene for laughs that would have deepened the characters immeasurably. Yes Victoria Rione can be annoying. But I still enjoyed Courageous (The Lost Fleet, Book 3). In fact the charcterizations are still far too shallow in general. Her relationship with Geary needs to move up to the next level for it to keep from descending into parody. It's not a very realistic relationship; fight-question-sex-pray to ancestors, etc. But I find myself continuing to turn the pages waiting for the next encounter. The end was great (even if I did spot a typo or two) and I'm dying to know what happens in book 4 back in Lakota.db
I had thoroughly enjoyed reading the previous two books but this one got lost in the tiresome and irritating Senator Rione. I grew irritated with her behavior at about 1/3 and simply disgusted with the space devoted to her and her foibles.Unfortunately, she won't get lost or improve with time, so this is the last of the series I read. I'm reading for an action/adventure story, not touchy-feely relationship logbooks.
The books entice enough to keep reading to the end but if you pause at any time it is often too hard to pick up again. Never mind the Co-President Rione, she has become irrelevant in book 3 already so I see no use for her or the continual repeats of the history that only belongs in book 1, only space filler making the value of these books each less then $ 2.00 each, AMAZON is absolutely charging TOO MUCH for these books.Time to start sharing files.
But ENOUGH already with the repeated explanations, the same pieces over and over again from Book 1 all the way to the last one is simply BOORING. Okay, the battles are great, a lot of detail and of course enough win's to make it fun to keep reading.
Come on, please lets see the action and thoughts and views of some of the other characters too. Please also the continual "listening" to Capain Geary's thought is getting on the nerves, try another tack please.
Okay, so it does seem to keep beeing a reasonable read but ALL the information is from ONE view - who else but Captain Geary - only. Page fillers at high prices is just too much.
Go-ahead and print this.
It's a decent space fighting series. Never get's too heavy and always moves along at a brisk pace. While I enjoy the long epic stories, sometimes it is nice to pick up something a little different.My only problem is that the books were so short, that I caught up to the current published books very quickly.
She seriously has two lines in the whole novel, "I'm not going to let you turn into Black Jack," and "I'm an important politician, you need to respect me while I butt in on your area of expertise." Seriously, it portrayed women very badly like frivolous, entitled, and air-headed banshees. (All you would have to do is take out Rione griping, seriously). I swear I've already read this." The same is true with the long-winded conferences. For real. The idea behind the story is brilliant, but the pace is awful and I want to strangle some of the characters.
First, can I seriously just open a ship door and shove Rione out into space. I am very ignorant about that type of stuff, and I understand the movements very well. I feel like it is going nowhere at a painfully slow pace. (We are only banshees on Fridays, dang it).
I think you could seriously just read the first 20 pages, 10 pages in the middle, and 20 at the end and know what went down and be less frustrated.Next, I swear nothing happened. The author is unrivaled in his ability to write understandable combat scenes. She is the most redundant, narrow-minded, anal, annoying, and impossible female character I think that I have ever come across. I swear that 75% of the novel was just her nagging and griping at poor John Geary. There is a slight underlying tension to the story that keeps propelling that story.
This series is starting to seriously frustrate me. Okay, a few things happened, but this book should have probably been combined with another one. It could easily be told in 35 pages. There were still some specks of the things that made me fall into obsession with this series in the first place. I counted John saying the same lines (verbatim) more than 3 times. It was just covered in tons and tons of repetitive blah in this particular book.All that being said, I am going to continue with this series because I believe it will go back to being an awesome space opera. The first two books were great, so what happened.I have a gigantic list of gripes.
(And I've already purchased the next one, heh). Next, there were a lot of a repetitive scenes and lines. I almost had deja vu when I read then like, "did my bookmark move. The characters (some of them) are great and very human. I love this series, but this book, to put it in bluntly, sucked, sucked, and then sucked some more at times.
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