Ivan

No Rc Bray but still quite solid entry

Évalué le: 2024-07-19

Not having Rc Bray is just a drawback, but not a substantial one. The story was solid, had some cool flashbacks of the old gang, and slowly introduced some new characters for this new chapter. Overall it was quite good, once you get past the first our and your brain switches narrators.

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Mildly entertaining but lots of lots of squandered potential.

Évalué le: 2024-03-12

Started off great, really enjoyed the first few parts but then this dull monotony crept in. Every opportunity for tension and epic action was glossed over. The battles were short and not very detailed, the protagonist hardly struggled at any points cause she is just so OP. She half stumbles into destroying a whole fleet and a planetary system while making jokes. Coukd have been great if some of those battles were more fleshed out and the solutions were inventive not just instantly available. The whole series wraps up in less than 15 minutes, there is build up to a final fight against a meched out evil emperor that just ends in 15 seconds with no fight at all. Really dissappinting way to end the whole series. Overall a fun listen, but nothing to write home about.

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A very poorly write attempt at science fiction.

Évalué le: 2024-01-15

Started off well enough but after a while you realize that the the entire book essentially boils down to. And then... This happened, and then... That happened. Why are zorlons and humans allies? Unclear, why are all star nations kingdoms? Unclear. What are the motivations of every single bad guy? Greed. A princess commits genocide and everyone forgives her instantly because reasons! Why is democracy dead in the whole galaxy? Because this writer should have stuck to fantasy. Two prince's that grow up together as cousins, one turns out to be the most noble and competent, and the other is a douchebag, despite growing up together like brothers, the douche hates his cousin, why? Unclear, never brought up. Things just happen, why are they happening? Who cares, what are the characters motivations or logic? Who needs that. One second the most noble general and friend of the family will do anything to protect the royals, the next he is ready to kill the competent one, why? Because he liked the douchebag mom more. Why would it matter if he would be a terrible king. Just things happening for no rhyme or reason. Zero foreshadowing, zero backstories on anyone who isn't a main character, and worst of all, boring uninteresting space battles. These ships fired, whose ships blew up, thsoe ships maneuver and fired again. It all feels incoherent and underdeveloped on a grand scale. Super dissapointed in this book. 2 ouf of 5 * only because I managed to actually finish it, mostly out of frustration.

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Pretty good, for a start.

Évalué le: 2023-08-17

Story was pretty generic as a marine going through basic but the book is well write the characters feel real and interesting and even though the plot was lacking the action was great and it felt like a good start to a series.

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Great start, but quite dissappinting in the end.

Évalué le: 2023-08-16

The first book was pretty good, but the writing just got worse and worse in book two and three. Shallow, no depth, the plot was simplistic, too much exposition dumps, too repetitive, zero cool factor. Had a really hard time finishing it.

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Good performance but story was a big meh.

Évalué le: 2022-11-23

The plot beats were few and far between, pretty predictable and utterly simplistic. Technology and unimaginative, one chapter they have medical nano bots the next they are out of bandages. All the ships have artificial gravity but when it comes to anti gravity particles they say gravity is a mystery and they don't understand it. Battles were written as, "they are attacking we are defending, we took out the main objective now we won" zero twists or surprises in this one. Had a hard time getting through it. The ending was really abrupt and unfulfilling. Overall story is a 4/10 for me. Would not recommend.

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Pretty good listen but the plot is a miss for me.

Évalué le: 2022-07-18

The performance is great, each character feels unique and alive, great execution on emotion and humour as well.
The story as a whole is pretty interesting, the universe is enthralling with different factions and alien species, but it loses me when it comes to characters and plot. My main gripe is with the protagonist, he seems wholly impotent. As the plot move along the protagonist is like a leaf in the wind, all the supporting characters are there to pull him along, save him from every bind, figure out every problem and solve every mystery. Ultimately it feels like he lacks the will and strength to act, he exerts very little authority and half the book is about exactly whose slave will end up being. Other than that the book was pretty enjoayable.

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Underwhelming ending

Évalué le: 2022-01-07

For the fifth book of an action series, and the seeming conclusion to the protagonists' stint in dark ops, it was rather underwhelming. It didn't really deliver the tension it was going for and it wrapped up rather too cleanly. Just a meh from me.

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Destroys the first book and the character of Wade

Évalué le: 2020-12-08

Painful to get through. Lazy writing, pacing issues, plot holes, and zero character development.

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