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A review by faltiska
Homeworld by Evan Currie
4.0
Somebody noted in one of the reviews that all his characters "grimace" or "nod" or "scowl" or "snort" all the time. Even is repeating this so much that you can't ignore that. It's annoying.
I guess this is one of the problems of publishing your books yourself, you don't get an editor to go over the text and suggest improvements, force you to delete entire paragraphs and rewrite others.
The Gaia stuff at the end also lowers the target audience age group a little bit. I was going to read the 4th book, but I am not looking forward to find a captain planet episode disguised as a military scifi book.
Apart from those problems the book is great. The size of the battle is so much surpassing the first 2 books that I'd say it has a certain greatness, it's majestic. And of course, just like the other books, the action does not stop for a second.
It again makes sense in the context of the setup and story laid out by the first books. Evan is planning his story very well. He is even introducing some elements well ahead of time and builds upon them later to create a very credible narrative. I usually hate it when the SciFi authors can't even stay coherent inside their own "reality" elements. Evan does. I have no idea if an of the physics described in the book is to any degree scientifically correct. But if you accept the key concepts, then the rest of the book makes total sense in this context created by those physics laws.
Not that being scientific was one of his goals. The goal is to create a fast paced continuous action novel. The 3rd one in a row, and amazingly not one bit worse that the first two. On the contrary, some people seem to say in the reviews that it's better than those.
You cannot stay unimpressed by this. He is self published, selling his books on Amazon and here you have 3000 people most of them commenting they loved the book. 84% of them rated it 4 or 5 stars. 3% rated it 1 or 2 stars. That's something, isn't it?
Well, I liked it too. And I'll go read the 4th one. There are hundreds of drone ships in Earth's orbit, I have to know what happens...
I guess this is one of the problems of publishing your books yourself, you don't get an editor to go over the text and suggest improvements, force you to delete entire paragraphs and rewrite others.
The Gaia stuff at the end also lowers the target audience age group a little bit. I was going to read the 4th book, but I am not looking forward to find a captain planet episode disguised as a military scifi book.
Apart from those problems the book is great. The size of the battle is so much surpassing the first 2 books that I'd say it has a certain greatness, it's majestic. And of course, just like the other books, the action does not stop for a second.
It again makes sense in the context of the setup and story laid out by the first books. Evan is planning his story very well. He is even introducing some elements well ahead of time and builds upon them later to create a very credible narrative. I usually hate it when the SciFi authors can't even stay coherent inside their own "reality" elements. Evan does. I have no idea if an of the physics described in the book is to any degree scientifically correct. But if you accept the key concepts, then the rest of the book makes total sense in this context created by those physics laws.
Not that being scientific was one of his goals. The goal is to create a fast paced continuous action novel. The 3rd one in a row, and amazingly not one bit worse that the first two. On the contrary, some people seem to say in the reviews that it's better than those.
You cannot stay unimpressed by this. He is self published, selling his books on Amazon and here you have 3000 people most of them commenting they loved the book. 84% of them rated it 4 or 5 stars. 3% rated it 1 or 2 stars. That's something, isn't it?
Well, I liked it too. And I'll go read the 4th one. There are hundreds of drone ships in Earth's orbit, I have to know what happens...