Star Carrier Series

[Hunter]

I finished Star Carrier Earth Strike a few weeks back and had my library find me a copy of Star Carrier Center of Gravity.

Earth Strike has got to be one of the most technical books I've ever read in Si Fi.
Pros: The amount of time he put into thinking up the tech in this book and coming up with good uses for it staggers me. I love the space ships he uses and the alien species that he introduces. The combat and tactics of the space battles are pretty average but still fun to read. The ending I didn't see coming AT ALL so I love it when something like that happens.
Cons: His characters (if you can call them that) in this book are almost as flat and cardboard cut out as they come. I still don't know what the Read Admiral looks like. I got no insight in any of their feelings or struggles(except Grey who is considered the "Main" main character out of the 3). The description of the surroundings are great...if you enjoy reading three pages of it without any dialogue. I found myself skipping over description parts from time to time cause it just got so annoying to read the same thing over and over in different ways.
Overall: Good book with wonderfulling thought out universe. Tech and space battles are what this book is made of with slight hits of emotion from the main character. But if you are wanting character development from sub main characters or minor characters then not the book for you.
Rating: 3.5/5

[Kev]

Thanks! I was wondering if I should pick this up.