What a great readAnother great start to what I am sure will be a interesting series of books. Recommend if you are looking for a interesting series.

This is a good and entertaining story. I wasn't expecting less from Glynn. However, problems are often solved by favorable miraculous circumstances and not by the efforts of the protagonist and crew. While this lets the story progress more smoothly, it somewhat diminishes their efforts and makes you roll your eyes. Furthermore, when neutral parties are confronted with the right thing to do, they just magically side with our heroes. These patterns could be found in the Starship's Mage series too,...

I have to say that I was a bit hesitant about this book. I’ve had it on my reading list for a while but I am always a bit hesitant about books that start with Earth being conquered, overrun or downright destroyed. However, after having read the Vigilante series by the same author, although co-authored by Terry Mixon, I decided to have a go at it.Well, I was pleasantly surprised. Not that I really expected the book to be bad or anything but, as it turned out, I ended up liking it…a lot.Yes there

With this book and many others like it, the only thing that makes in science fiction is that instead of seas and oceans there is space, instead of ships there are space ships, instead of nation states, some large some small, there are planetary systems and instead of different nationalities, there are aliens. Wars are still fought the same way as on 20th century Earth and the same socioeconomic conditions that give rise to the wars, exist not only on 20th century Earth but throughout the galaxy....

The myth of the noble colonizer is like the myth of the noble slaveowner before it, a lie that people who consider themselves "good people" tell themselves in order to justify the atrocities that at best they know they are passively benefiting from and are at worst actively committing. It is an inherently evil idea and no amount of skin deep progressivist setdressing, nor context of any kind can salvage it.

I would have given it another star, but I didn't care for the profanity. Story line is very interesting! A sort of combo of Firefly and Star Trek, it is unique and very much it's own thing. Awesome space opera!

LGBTQ Space Pirates SciFi Without Any Parrots or Peglegs"The Terran Privateer," is a hamfisted, pedestrian, banal, preachy eBook, that gratuitously makes many one dimensional characters gay or sexually deviant, in order to promote a PC agenda.Storyline: Earth in the near future has explored the solar system and nearby star systems. A benevolent, though condescending alien race, conquers Earth. A prototype warship, captained by a determined mistress (she prefers bondage), manned by a heavily gay

Good space opera. It kept me turning the pages. Good characters, a good plot, and a satisfying ending. The pacing is good. One thing that helps the story move along: the drives for the spaceships are inertialess, so they accelerate, decelerate, and maneuver on a dime. Typos, however, especially missing words and some added words, diminish the total enjoyment a little. Between the typos and some pronoun-fuzzy sentences, I had to read more than one sentence several times to make sure I had grokke...

A swashbuckler of a tale--Earth has taken its first steps off planet when the Imperium shows up on our doorstep with overwhelming firepower and demands unconditional surrender. Of course we fight, and most of us die, but one ship, commanded by Bloody Annie, escapes with a letter of the marque to become a privateer tasked with finding and taking the technology capable of driving the Imperium from Earth and regaining our freedom.Except...there are other forces out there than the Imperium, and some...

So, I've got such mixed feelings about this whole thing. I'd like to know more about the aliens. We only really learn about two. One the squid guys we learn tons about. The bug doods we learn somethings. But the marine lizard doods. We don't learn that much bout which is sad because they seem cool. The author has a habit of building character by focusing on the "love interest" of the officers instead of just building the total story about the officers. For example, do some have a poker habit, do...

This is an unabashedly fun read of the Hornblower-in-Space sub-sub-genre of the space-opera sub-genre.I can probably stop here; if you're into this sort of thing, you know it, and this one's a fun read of this sort. But for those of you still reading...Yes, it's easy to compare this to Weber's work, and no, it's not as gripping. The ship-to-ship action's not nearly as solid; the humans have superior defensive tech to nearly every ship they meet, and they largely just bull their way through every...

I'm just enjoying the heck out of this new series by an author I already like. Addictive. Aliens! Empires in conflict! SPACE PIRACY! Liberating slaves! Women in milSF! What's not to like here?Edited to add: I would describe the quality of the writing here as action-adventure, there's a lot of action and a little more concentration on military hardware and mass deaths than I really like but it's really exciting. Another reviewer mentions that there are gay characters and rape in the book -- this

For some reason, this book dragged for me. I had to re-start it a bunch of times, and it just didn't hold my interest. I think it's the pacing, which is geared to set up the series. I've definitely enjoyed other books by Stewart in the past; the Changeling series is a favorite re-read for me. (Start with Changeling's Fealty.) I do have to comment on other reviews that complain about the gay characters--Stewart is just describing a gay relationship in the same terms as any other romantic relation...

Read This Series!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.!..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!If you Love Good Space Opera, then this is a MUST Read. I'm Hooked, I've been reading Sci-fi, Fantasy and Sword and Sorcery for over Forty Years, yes I'm an Old Man lol. But Few Authors made me want to continue reading more of their work, as those I've found on Amazon for my Kindle. It's Great to have something Capture and Keep my Attention for more than a half hour. I'm a Multiple Stroke survivor and also have PTSD which makes it very hard for...

I'm not much of a reader. Came across this book in audible and truly enjoyed it. Did get annoying with all the clicking noises and repeatedly saying the same things to get their point across. But would definitely recommend. I'm not much of a reader. Came across this book in audible and truly enjoyed it. Did get annoying with all the clicking noises and repeatedly saying the same things to get their point across. But would definitely recommend.

Great novel. Good characters. Good plot. Read it and enjoy.Great novel. Good characters. Good plot. Read it and enjoy. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and found it engrossing as well as entertaining.