Customer Reviews
Certainly NOT Honour Harrington - By: Andy Watkins, 25 Oct 2008 
Sounded a bit like Honour Harrington from David Weber.
It isn't. It isin fact a very pporly written & dull space epic that is a complete rip off of Xenophon's Anabasis & the March of the 10,000 from 401BC.
Love Honour Harrington? Then save your money, this is not impressive...
You can hear the tattered sails flapping in the wind - By: Cubeist, 04 Jul 2008 
This book bears no resemblance to the review that tempted me to buying it. About half way through the book I went back & checked if it was really marketed as an 'adult' book or a 'young-adult' book, it's so poorly written & seems aimed at a much younger audience. The characters are two dimensional & the whole story reads like a rehashed version of a Horatio Hornblower type book, the physics is a band-aid to the lack of story or ideas, thrown over the top to make it seem valid as 'sci-fi'. If the book was slightly rewritten you could easily imagine it as a lost fleet story of ancient sailing vessels, with all the accompanying saturday morning tv appeal. I'm amazed Black Jack didn't have a parrot on his shoulder.
As others have said, the characterisations really do follow some limp cliches, with the villains being stupid & the good guys all loving Black. Shallow, boring & so predictable.
I see the series has been extended, i won't be buying them.
Fantastic for a good simple read - By: Dr. J. A. Hiscox, 11 Dec 2007 
This book is setin the future when humanity has colonised the stars & diverged into different groups depending on political outlook. The hero of the story so speak is a member of the Alliance, a group who are fighting the protagonistsin the story - the Syndicates. The story focuses around the main character who has been rescued from a survival pod after one hundred years of suspended animation/hibernation after fighting the open shotsin the war & becoming a part of history. It is his job to rescue the Alliance fleet after total disaster & snatch victory from the jaws of despair & defeat.
The book was a very easy read & a page turner. From the science fiction point of view it was a good blend of `science'in terms of sub-light travel & relativistic effects to the `fiction' of the story & some of the more esoteric technology. I found the book a good mix of Battlestar Galactica (the new one) & Buck Rogers rolled into a thinking mans space opera. Well worth buying & I have immediately ordered the next instalment.
Enjoyable Read - By: Dave O, 17 Nov 2007 
I have read better books & I have read worse books. Basically, this makes for an interesting read & whilst the character development is weak & the plot is weak, it is actually a hard book to put down. If you try to analyse the plausibility of the storyline, you can see that there is some logic & substance present.
Anyway, a good read & I will be buying the next 2 books.
Empty. - By: A. Prokic, 23 Oct 2007 This book is really really bad. The story is unbelievably predictable. Even the space battles are unimaginative. Dialog is simple, boring, unreal &in some points ridiculous. Characters have no depth. I felt while reading the book that it was writen by a 14 year old with no deep life experiences.
