Victorious (Lost Fleet Series #6) Book

Finally, it is over. This series should have been half the size it ended up being. Why, because it repeated. Then the next failing of the author, it repeated. So all these extra pages, were just rehashes of scenes that had already taken place with a new noun to show that it was a different place, but the same thing happening, or all the characters talking about how that thing that happened before was just like this, or do you remember the thing that happened, let me refresh your memory by describing it for pages.

So many pages that the author stretched out his mercenary hand for three extra books.

Where do we succeed and fail with this tale though. We reach a conclusion, finally. The war is over. Our angst ridden hero can retire. Accept that the entire book has a subtheme where he won't retire and will be back fighting the new threat instantly.

Prepare yourself for another six book arc that can be told in three. So much time is spent on high school he said she said that you hope either the hero or his untouchable love interest die so it is over. This series was never a romance, and certainly in high school so much desire for another never took up so much of ones life.

So what makes a science fiction naval epic any good, action. In this case, since the hero commands a giant fleet, naval combat. Which is over so quickly you could have blinked. Pages in the front serve as a guide to tell you how many ships the hero commands and where some were lost. But who cares. The author will tell you in one half sentence how a certain ship, of which you have never heard, has gone down. Then he will track it through the entire series. But you are not invested in those characters. Not even many aboard the flagship. The secondary characters have no personalities for he has invested all of that into the hero.

You thus don't really care about anyone else in the series. Several loose ends are let loose, and the inability of anyone but the hero to think has to leave you wondering how in the 100 years the hero was asleep, the gene pool could have been reduced to recreating the idiots amongst us.

If you read any book in the series, get it from the library. Skim it and forget it. There are much better combat and fleet arc books out there. Certainly many that one can believe in the hero, the other characters, and the situation.