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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.6 EAN: 9780441016198 ISBN: 0441016197 Label: Ace Manufacturer: Ace Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: June 24, 2008 Publisher: Ace Studio: Ace Editorial Review: Product Description: Black Jack Geary has ordered his fleet back to the Lakota Star System where the Syndics nearly destroyed them, a desperate gamble that may give them a fighting chance of survivalor tear them apart. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Starting to DragI agree with everyone else who said this book was a step back from the previous three. The battles felt flat, I'm starting to get tired of the stock "isn't it funny how the Navy still does ____ but no one remembers why?" type scenes, and there was absolutely ZERO character or plot development in this chapter of the overall saga Basically, other than having two people admit they're attracted to each other, nothing special happens for 300 pages. Valiant felt, to me, like ... Read More Rating:  - Great SCI FI bookThis is book 4. You should read the book in order. This is the best group of books I have read in a long time. If you like non-stop action these books are for you. Well worth your money. Rating: - Another solid sequelIf you enjoyed the previous volumes of the series you won't be disappointed. Four star rating reflects no so much the quality of the story but the remarkable consistency starting with volume one. Don't mean the book's not good. It is. Not the best SF novel I've ever read but most certainly an entertaining read. There are a few weak points like excessive soul searching and self disparaging discourses on the main protagonists part that sometimes were rather tiresome overall pretty solid job I'd ... Read More Rating: - RedundentGood 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 Rating: - Good military SFIf 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 ... Read More |
