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A review by csroc
Deep Space by Ian Douglas
3.0
It's... ok.
This book starts to make good on the strife building at home on Earth but it's a bit clumsy. Overall it's repeating a lot of the same themes the books have already gone through and doesn't feel like it expands any long term plots enough to add as much as it could or should to the series.
Some of the actions going on around Earth come across as rather annoying to the reader. You can see some coming and have to just ask yourself "really?"
The excessive repetition of certain essential background elements that have been explained in every book in the series is really old. Who picks up a series of books at some point other than book one? Since I also reviewed the first book and mentioned the Lost Fleet family of books I'll mention that again here. They repeat a lot and it might be my failing memory, but it doesn't feel as dragged out most of the time.
Most of the background Lost Fleet repeats is done much more efficiently than in this series. It's still a process I don't agree with, but it can be done better.
This book starts to make good on the strife building at home on Earth but it's a bit clumsy. Overall it's repeating a lot of the same themes the books have already gone through and doesn't feel like it expands any long term plots enough to add as much as it could or should to the series.
Some of the actions going on around Earth come across as rather annoying to the reader. You can see some coming and have to just ask yourself "really?"
The excessive repetition of certain essential background elements that have been explained in every book in the series is really old. Who picks up a series of books at some point other than book one? Since I also reviewed the first book and mentioned the Lost Fleet family of books I'll mention that again here. They repeat a lot and it might be my failing memory, but it doesn't feel as dragged out most of the time.
Most of the background Lost Fleet repeats is done much more efficiently than in this series. It's still a process I don't agree with, but it can be done better.