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I'm about to dive into episode 10, which should tell you that it's a great series. The characters are personable, and their personal experiences and struggles draw you in. There is excitement, life - and - death struggles, and a good deal of humor. What are you waiting for? Open the book and fall in, you'll be hooked.


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Ep#1 "Aurora CV01" The Frontiers Saga eBook Ryk Brown Reviews

Bought 1st book on suggestion from someone who knows I enjoy Sci-Fi and also believed it was on par with Foundations.

After reading this book and author's own description, friend made it out to be way more then what it is. Other reviewers have used Star Trek Voyager meets Star Wars and I agree. Its starts out with potential political issues, ongoing family strife and such and then it literally takes off. As all the "bad luck" starts to occur you let the first few events go by but after a while I just started asking Why? way to many times? That's when you realize it's more space opera then SciFi. I also found myself guessing at what the Next "Bad" Thing was going to happen and putting in my own dialog for certain characters using Star Trek people. When I finished, I waited to write this review because I didn't want my initial disappointment to cloud this review. It's been a few days now and I don't plan to continue.

p.s. And yes the title is from Pigs in Space.
It uses many themes most of us are familiar with, starting out following a brand new Ensign straight out of the academy on his first tour of duty. Earth, still recovering from its last nuclear war which devastated the planet and required humans to start over from scratch, is now threatened by a hostile alien force. While on routine patrol, something goes horribly wrong and our young protagonist is forced to take up the reigns of command to try and lead the survivors home. Reminded me a lot of Wolfhound by Kindal Debenham.

I liked the secondary characters that provide a wide array of personalities and each bring a little something to the story. The crazy russian engineer, the analytical, by-the-book navigator, and the fiery spec ops daredevil really flush out the crew. The space battles were fairly decent. Lots of action in space battles and repelling boarders, though not much concerning tactics or the capabilities of their tech.

The ending was a bit unsatisfying to me as nothing really gets resolved, the story simply ends, awaiting a sequel. I think the one thing that really bugged me about the book and made it difficult for me to finish was the protagonist. His whole claim, as a senator's son trying to flee his father's shadow, is that he is supposed to be proving everyone who thinks of him as a spoiled, privileged kid who never takes anything seriously, wrong. Instead, while he has flashes of inspiration and a few instances where he takes responsibility, most of the time he's hot-headed, naive, moody... He keeps making obvious mistakes and acts like an excited child- I couldn't stand him. The fact that his crew is so calm and capable makes the contrast even more apparent.
I read up through 15 so far, mostly due to lack of better options. This review is more for the series as a whole, some of the books are better than others during the trip through the "episodes".

The decade or so I spent in the military and the combat experienced sets what may be a higher bar than most have when it comes to military science fiction.

That being said, this series is fairly reasonable in its portrayal of warfare and technologies involved therein. The resultant technology and methods fit with the story, areas where it doesn't feel like a reasonable future tech wise fits well with the dark ages / recovery back story. I mean, seriously, we likely won't have human pilots in atmospheric flight for more than a decade or two, let alone in some far future where we have travel outside of the solar system.

I also question the physics when presented with battles spanning light minutes and unguided kinetic weapons or point targeted energy weapon systems. It just seems highly unlikely to be as effective as the author posits.

On the plus side, the conveyance of reality when discussing light in relation to the idea of "jumping" is entertaining and well presented.

But the real downside of the books isn't the plot, world building, or technological explanations. It's the fairly underdeveloped characters and the fact that over half the prose describes space combat in a fairly repetitive fashion. A more character driven story with some of the generic battles rolled up and presented post-fact may have made for a more engaging read.

But in the end, I did read them all. And I only skipped through some of the chapters.
I'm about to dive into episode 10, which should tell you that it's a great series. The characters are personable, and their personal experiences and struggles draw you in. There is excitement, life - and - death struggles, and a good deal of humor. What are you waiting for? Open the book and fall in, you'll be hooked.