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A review by tuftymctavish
Deep Space by Ian Douglas
3.0
Where book #3, Singularity, completed the first part of the story, Deep Space picks things up a little further on. This much I liked. I liked the new characters, the new encounters, the new alien races, the new problems, the gradual reveals. There's a nice level of background detail that fleshes out the story rather well.
But oh my, so much repeated text! Perhaps the author is assuming that somebody is going to pick up Book #4 as their starting off point, or that it's been a while and the reader needs a refresher and I'm thus not ideally placed to comment on this having powered through all four books in short order. However, it struck me that even within the same single book there are repetitions describing the main star-ships that give the series its name, along with events from previous books that get re-described over and over.
Other than that I fair enjoyed this episode, which feels like the start of another sequence of stories.
But oh my, so much repeated text! Perhaps the author is assuming that somebody is going to pick up Book #4 as their starting off point, or that it's been a while and the reader needs a refresher and I'm thus not ideally placed to comment on this having powered through all four books in short order. However, it struck me that even within the same single book there are repetitions describing the main star-ships that give the series its name, along with events from previous books that get re-described over and over.
Other than that I fair enjoyed this episode, which feels like the start of another sequence of stories.