Valiant (The Lost Fleet, Book 4 of 6)
Ace - Ace
Release date: 2008-06-24
Mass Market Paperback
Author: Jack Campbell
American Science Fiction And Fantasy, Fiction, Fiction - Science Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction - General, Fiction / Science Fiction / General
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Valiant (The Lost Fleet, Book 4 of 6)
Date undefinedGood story still but less and less pages each book plus he keeps wasting pages on explaining everything everybook i mean if your reading book 4 and dont know how the meeting room works just give up reading
Valiant (The Lost Fleet, Book 4 of 6)
Date undefinedIf you haven't read the first three books in this series, go back and start at the beginning. If you have read them and enjoyed them, you will like this installment as well. Like most military SF it suffers from stuffiness -- since everyone is SO sincere, and SO self-sacrificing (except for the baddies of course, who are SO self-serving, and SO sincere in their maliciousness). However, this series doesn't seem to be quite as over the top in this regard as, say, the works of David Weber. Nevertheless it lacks the saving and ingratiating humor of Lois Bujold's Vorkosigan series.
Once past that (and the ridiculous cover art -- I mean, our hero is a fleet commander, not a marine grunt; come on!) this volume, like the others, is well plotted, with an interesting protagonist, who is presented with some interesting problems. And the space battles seem "realistic" (given the assumed technology of this future), fought with very clever tactics and stratagems.
In short, it was good enough that I will buy the next volume in the series to see how things -- if not "work out" -- progress.
Valiant (The Lost Fleet, Book 4 of 6)
Date undefinedThis is the fourth book I have purchased in the series Lost Fleet. The story is put together with large epic pieces looming forming the back drop of an intricate dance of small details that unfold for Captain Black Jack Geary. Jack's injection of fleet combat over a up and down series of subplots is done in true story teller style. This book is polite to it's readers, keeping tradition with "The just shall prevail" and dishing up a nice serving of inter-character drama.
While I found myself looking forward to finding out "who did what" rushing me to the next chapter, there is a upsetting side effect of finishing the book. I would like to read more .... alas, I will need patience.
While reading this series, see if you can piece together some joking jabs at what is possibly Jack's own passion, writing. I say possibly because I do not know him. However his imagination is organized and fun to unpack after a hard days work.
