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Made it through, barely
First the good parts. A few characters, even shallow, that you can get behind and root for. A series of increasingly implausible tasks and battles to overcome by a growing alliance of species, typical for space opera. Nothing unexpected and better than many. Now for the rest of the story. Besides the usual so so editing the misuse of terms made reading many sections almost unbearable. Weapons have magazines not clips, there is no aft side on a ship aft is a direction facing the stern, the nadir of a planet is the closest point of the planet viewed from above, telling someone to go there is telling them to land not hide which is how it is used. You travel to a distant alien planet where you have no presence much less a satellite array and yet your gps works perfectly. Really? No it doesn't. A military that allows lower ranks to refer to their officers by their last name, no rank, and speak to them as if they were equal. A ship's captain ordered around by a major. Really? A character referred to as a private, then corporal, then sergeant in about two paragraphs. Oh lest we forget the creatures that are 2000 meters tall which under normal gravity couldn't exist much less move and fight. I could go on but I'm sure by now you get the point.
June 2019 · Kindle Store · verified purchase
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