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"A planet-stomping space opera that bursts off the page like a tactical nuke."
–John Birmingham, author of Weapons of Choice
The Hammer Worlds–the most brutal and oppressive interstellar government in the universe–have hijacked the Federated Worlds cruise ship Mumtaz, seizing its valuable terraforming cargo and damning its passengers to mining the moons of the prison planet known as Hell.
For Junior Lieutenant Michael Helfort and the crew aboard deep space scout vessel 387, the mission is clear: infiltrate enemy territory, locate the Mumtaz, and rescue the prisoners.
The odds are appalling, and the damage will probably be fatal, but victory is nonnegotiable–especially for Helfort, whose mother and sister were on the Mumtaz.
And Michael Helfort will be damned if he'll let his family rot on the moons of Hell.
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Michael Donohue
reviewed The Battle at the Moons of Hell (Helfort's War Series #1), Vol. 1 on October 26, 2011
The Battle at the Moons of Hell (Helfort's War Series #1), Vol. 1
Slow pacing, no character arc and very dry.
While this book shows promise for a new author, it still needs work. The pacing is very, very slow. Nothing happens until the final 40 pages of the book. If the author was trying to make a point that soldering is 99% boredom and 1% of sheer terror, then he makes his point very well. It just doesn't make a very good read. I'm not against slowly paced books, if there are other interesting aspects to focus on, such as character development. But there is no character arc either.
In addition, while there were a few bright spots in the depiction of epic space battle at the end, overall it was sheer drudgery. It couldn't be any dryer. Once again, while this is probably closer to the mark of what a real space battle would be like -- lots of vector calculations, tactical management, and offensive coordination -- it does not make a good read. Even the descriptions of the damage done by rail gun slugs as they ripped through ships was so repetitive and dry I finally started skipping over them.
*** WARNING *** SOME MIGHT CONSIDER SOME THE FOLLOWING A SPOILER ***
What was particularly annoying is that toward the end of the book, once I realized that nothing much was going to happen, I thought the author might be trying for a good setup for the next book. Alas, no. As the sole surviving senior officer after a brutal battle, the protagonist becomes a well-known hero--despite the fact that he had little to do with the battle. He just happened to survive it. But in any case, you would expect that as a result he would be given a promotion and a more interesting deployment on a well-known ship. A good setup for the next book to really get the series rolling. Instead, he's the same seemingly mediocre junior lieutenant that we started off with at the beginning of the book and he is given an even worse position on a ship with a captain that isn't well liked. Oh, and the captain is friends with the family of the antagonist from the beginning of the book.
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I might give the second book a try to see if the writing improves, but I'm not very optimistic that it will.
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