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birdloveranne's review
5.0
Wow, really good science fiction story! Will definitely be continuing the series.
ammbooks's review
3.0
pleasant story line... easy to follow. Would check out sequels from the library.
socorrobaptista's review
4.0
Sei que é uma narrativa de ficção científica, mas me fez lembrar bastante da atual situação de Gaza, ou de várias outras situações de conflitos entre exércitos bem organizados e grupos guerrilheiros que lutam pelo poder e pela posse territorial. A protagonista não hesita em sua lealdade, mas percebe-se sua angústia diante de situações de desigualdade. Muito bom.
eric_conrad's review
2.0
Something was missing for me in this book. It all felt very generic to me. The protagonist was likeable enough, but the story never really grabbed me. The ending was fun, but I doubt that I will read any more of the series.
crystal_bookworm's review
1.0
Didn't like
I have to say while I liked the idea of the plot. I didn't like the writing of most of the characters
I have to say while I liked the idea of the plot. I didn't like the writing of most of the characters
capellan's review
2.0
Trigger warnings: rape.
Meh. The TW above gets the book off in a bad space for me, and while it recovers in the middle arc, it loses its way again in the final act. The list of suspects for main bad guy is ... well, basically one person long ... and the whole climax feels very rushed. When your resolution depends on the villainous super spy revealing his entire plan, and not one by two separate instances of "suddenly, allies surrounded the bad guys", you need to do some more work on your plot.
Meh. The TW above gets the book off in a bad space for me, and while it recovers in the middle arc, it loses its way again in the final act. The list of suspects for main bad guy is ... well, basically one person long ... and the whole climax feels very rushed. When your resolution depends on the villainous super spy revealing his entire plan, and not one by two separate instances of "suddenly, allies surrounded the bad guys", you need to do some more work on your plot.
nytephoenyx's review
3.0
This book was disappointing. The main character, Nova Whiteside, is an interesting sort of person starting immediately, but the plot is all shambles and the writing style is probably 80% dialogue. This book needs desperately to be fleshed out and expanded upon, providing more descriptions between verbal confrontations at least.
In addition to that, this would have been much more interestingly written as two separate books: one about a rebellion and one about drug trafficking. In the last few pages the authors ties them together, but it is a very loose tie and unconvincing. Nova herself says that she discovered everything accidentally. Fact is, we go from sexual assault to a battle to a kidnapping to a rescue to blackmailing to a battle to love angst to a battle to an investigation to a battle to bomb defusing to uncovering a drug trafficking ring to her commander finally signing off on her transfer papers before there's another battle.... The world built here is interesting enough to hold its own... there is no rise and fall of action at all in the book. It's just a machine gun of high intense action to the face. All the time. And that was what I didn't like about the book.
But I did like Nova. I liked her kick-ass-I'm-doing-the-thing attitude and her strong, confident belief in herself.
This book had so much potential, and it grieves me to see that there are four more, probably all as solidly three-starred as this one. Potential to flesh them out and be so much more, but the author had his own vision and didn't flesh it out to it's full realm of possibilities.
Oh well. Such is the world of self-publishing.
In addition to that, this would have been much more interestingly written as two separate books: one about a rebellion and one about drug trafficking. In the last few pages the authors ties them together, but it is a very loose tie and unconvincing. Nova herself says that she discovered everything accidentally. Fact is, we go from sexual assault to a battle to a kidnapping to a rescue to blackmailing to a battle to love angst to a battle to an investigation to a battle to bomb defusing to uncovering a drug trafficking ring to her commander finally signing off on her transfer papers before there's another battle.... The world built here is interesting enough to hold its own... there is no rise and fall of action at all in the book. It's just a machine gun of high intense action to the face. All the time. And that was what I didn't like about the book.
But I did like Nova. I liked her kick-ass-I'm-doing-the-thing attitude and her strong, confident belief in herself.
This book had so much potential, and it grieves me to see that there are four more, probably all as solidly three-starred as this one. Potential to flesh them out and be so much more, but the author had his own vision and didn't flesh it out to it's full realm of possibilities.
Oh well. Such is the world of self-publishing.
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