Mike

Slow, pointless, robotic, really REALLY disliked..

Revisado: 10-22-23

The plot plods along, the reader is robotic and monotone... author spends forever getting anywhere and spends way too much time on the mundane and uninteresting details rather than core plot. Three books on training and more training without any real action or progression of the plot. I really hated this book.... will avoid this author in the future like the plague.

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Can't put myself through another book of series...

Revisado: 03-01-16

I've read the entire series, but the author seems to have lost his interest and his focus... dives into the minutiae where it doesn't need to and looses focus on the main plot lines when he does. Every once in awhile there is something of interest, but it's few and far between. I simply can't put myself through another of these books. Lost interest....

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Don't get the wooden ships in space thing...

Revisado: 10-28-14

I review only the books that I have a strong opinion of and this is definitely one of them. This book has a serious cybil complex... at first, it's a credible hard core sci-fi book during the mars pieces of the story, then splits personality to describe seemingly wooden ships flying around the solar system in the 1700's utilizing magic and having ancient cannon battles.

I kept trying to figure the wooden ship pieces and though at first it was a flashback in time, but then it introduced a date in the 1700's with ships flying in space with outer space with "lode stones". I wish the author skipped the fantasy pieces as they simply were not credible in my opinion and I simply could not get past it. The author should have picked a genera and stayed with it...

I returned the book after the first few chapters as I found it simply too confusing. I would not recommend this book for either hard copy sci-fi'ers or fantasy lovers as the author attempts to make both camps happy and fails miserably at both.

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Could not put this one down...keeper.

Revisado: 10-15-11

I purchased the previous book in this new series and was pleased to see this one come along... the plot and narrator are excellent - drew me in from the first few pages. Author tends to be a bit over descriptive at times, but makes up for it with an outstanding plot. Really draws you in to the story. I'm now hooked on the series and wait patiently for the next book in this new series.

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Dud in an otherwise excellent series...

Revisado: 10-15-11

Steven King has obviously becomes bored with this series... at one point he sums up the who storyline of the series in a single chapter, more information concerning the plot then in all the other books combined. Then... we write HIMSELF into the story line as a character in the book. I put this one away for awhile and may or may not have interest to pick it up again... not the way I wanted to remember this, up to now, simply outstanding series of books by Steven King.

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Long winded and boring...

Revisado: 10-15-11

It took me several hours of overly detailed descriptions and background information before anything happened of interest and by then it was too late. I was extremely happy to quite this one and move on to other more interesting titles. Not for fans of action oriented works, found it long winded and boring...

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