Reviews for First Light Chronicles Omnibus

The average rating for First Light Chronicles Omnibus based on 2 reviews is 1.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-02-18 00:00:00 Katherine Rossiter Most good authors perform meticulous research when undertaking a new work of fiction. Authors such as Tom Clancy and Connie Willis spend many hours in libraries and museums gathering information about the subjects of their books. They also conduct interviews with knowledgeable people. That research allows the reader to imagine that the work of fiction might, at a minimum, be possible in the real world. It is obvious that the author of this book performed very little more research than, perhaps, viewing a couple of "Star Wars" and "Star trek" movies. The book is rife with errors and inconsistencies. Editing is either very poor, or is non-existent. Spelling, punctuation and grammar errors are common. Sentence structure is often so stilted that sentences must be read repeatedly in order to determine the author's meaning. Captain Wheeler of the Triton suddenly becomes referred to as "Captain Walker" on page 1030 of the e-Book (in two places on that page), and then transforms back into "Captain Wheeler" again. What kind of author can't remember the names of his/her characters? This is unforgivable. The author's knowledge of military ranks, practices, customs and courtesies is sadly lacking. He mixes naval and land-based military ranks randomly and chaotically, and he makes no discernment between commissioned and enlisted personnel, referring to all as enlisted. He has a low-ranking sergeant act as ship's captain in the absence of the actual ship's commander (who apparently holds the relatively high rank of naval captain, although this is never really clear). Since the book refers to the ships' departures as "sailing," it would be appropriate to consistently use naval ranks, especially for the commissioned officers, but apparently the author has no military experience and failed to do his homework on this subject. The book is filled with meaningless descriptions that add nothing at all to the advancement of the story lines, or to the crispness of the dialog, which can best be described as drivel. In addition, the author appears to be confused as to whether this book should be an adventurous space opera, or some sort of fantasy ship-board romance that many juveniles (but few adults) might find appealing. Loose ends abound. The story is very choppy. The situations and actions of the characters are not even remotely believable. Even at a price of "free," this book is not worth the time and effort it takes to read it. If you like genuine Science Fiction, pay the price for a good book published by a known publishing house, and get some value for your money.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-06-22 00:00:00 Michitaka Hanibuchi I really tried to like this book, but… I found it on Amazon as a free ebook for my Kindle. It is the first story of a series. As someone else said, I would give it 2 ½ stars if we could give half stars in Goodreads. The premise of story is that a group of amateurs hack a simulator that is used by the local military academy for training. The group then proceeds to defeat and humiliate the academies best. After being exposed, the group is then not sent to prison, but given a starship and sent out on a top secret mission and the leader of the group is selected to command this ship. The story line seems to be a mix of Star Trek, Star Wars, and an RPG science fiction/fantasy game. There are too many contrived settings to move the story forward. The hero and his crew have no flaws and are always on the right. Most of the situations are very black and white in figuring out who is right and who is wrong. Right now I have too many books in my too read pile to consider going any further with this series.