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Mar 07, 2017
BigJohn
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it was amazing
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This is the one that started it all. The Rookie is book one in the Galactic Football League series, the first in a series that to-date encompasses 5 novels and 4 novellas, with at least two more novels and 2 more novellas to come.
The setting is expansive - 700 years in the future, the Milky Way galaxy has been conquered by the Creterakians, who save us from ourselves by taking control over the 7 or so warring races found in the galaxy. To better facilitate interspecies cooperation, they bring th ...more
The setting is expansive - 700 years in the future, the Milky Way galaxy has been conquered by the Creterakians, who save us from ourselves by taking control over the 7 or so warring races found in the galaxy. To better facilitate interspecies cooperation, they bring th ...more
This is a shocking 4 stars for me. I read it mainly because it is a Sigler story even though I am not a football fan in the slightest. I was pleasantly surprised when I sat at my ebook reader entranced and breathless with what would happen next and praying for the Krakens to get that win that would lead them to championships. Who knew you could create a football fan...all it takes is some aliens and people dying.
First book in the GFL series and I have to say that it was really great. I have not heard the pod casts that SS does but would say that it would be interesting to hear one so that you understand the lingo of the story.
I think my favorite part of the book is that he gives stats of each week that is played in the league and there is a bit where two play by play callers are doing a radio show that takes call ins (ESPNish) and they discuss what is coming up for the week and what players are set to ...more
I think my favorite part of the book is that he gives stats of each week that is played in the league and there is a bit where two play by play callers are doing a radio show that takes call ins (ESPNish) and they discuss what is coming up for the week and what players are set to ...more
The Rookie is the story of Quentin Barnes how he went from being a nobody boy mining since the age of 5 years old to where he became a human Tier 3 quarterback raised in the Purist Nation. Barnes was traded from the Micovi Raiders to the Ionath Krakens, a Teir 2 team. He struggled with all the changes. The speed of the game, all the new species of aliens that being from the Purist Nation put him in disgust. Under the wing of his idol Donald Pine, he learned how to play the game, both on and off
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Apr 06, 2011
Scott E.
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it was amazing
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science-fiction,
young-adult
Jan 16, 2012
Edgar
marked it as to-read
