I really loved Mihalik’s Polaris Rising so I had no hesitation in starting this Rogue Queen series. These shorter books began as a free online serial on the author’s website. The feel is similar to Polaris Rising. It is set in space with various factions, political and action battles between planets and various coalitions. Samara […]
What happens after the war has ended and everyone has hashed out the reporations and divided the booty? In Aftershocks, Marko Kloos explores this scenario as the consequences of being the losing faction in the war become clear and new little rebellions begin popping up in various areas. This was a completely easy read. Sometimes […]
I really loved Mihalik’s Polaris Rising so I had no hesitation in requesting The Queen’s Gambit. It is shorter but has the same feel I enjoyed in Polaris Rising. The action is set in space and on planets involved in various disputes. This novella was an online free serial on the author’s site. Samara leads […]
If you have enjoyed Jack Campbell’s other series, Lost Fleet and Beyond the Frontier, and Lost Stars, Genesis Fleet series will feel familiar. The writing style, space opera and military strategy are all here. It is a prequel series. Ascendant is the second book, following Vanguard by three years, and now Triumphant. The series could be read […]
Finder may not be the first book in a series but I had sort of first book syndrome. The first half had me struggling to put it all together and then it was off like a bullet to the end! I did really enjoy it then. There are many things to like. The world is […]
You really need to read the Deathstalker series in order or you would be pretty much lost. Even reading in order, each group of chapters will just drop into a scene and if you don’t know what was going on in the previous book, then you have no hope of following the story, particularly with the […]
You really need to read the Deathstalker series in order or you would be pretty much lost. Even reading in order, there are scenes which are completely disjointed from the scene before and after. There will be a few chapters say, about Owen and Hazel, and their adventure. Next the story will jump into a […]
I liked Deathstalker War the best of the three in the Deathstalker series so far. This is possibly because the story had Owen Deathstalker at the beginning, the middle, and the end, which is more what I expect from the title character in an urban fantasy series. The war has arrived. It only began in […]
I was excited, since I’d be over the first book issues of figuring out the world and knowing the characters. But Deathstalker Rebellion was still a long, long, long, book with an overwhelming amount of details. Thankfully, there is humor, and I care about some characters or I’d give up. The beginning has Lionstone meeting […]
Somehow I got the idea in my head the Deathstalker series was urban fantasy and it’s science fiction / space opera. It is even more bizarre because I thought the Alex Verus series by Benedict Jacka was science fiction and it turned out to be urban fantasy. They are both narrated by Gildart Jackson very […]