I picked up the first volume because the series has been getting press as a fun, accessible space opera. Unfortunately readers' complaints about the weak science turned out to be much worse than readers said. Spaceships list and roll like sailing vessels, belch smoke and flames in hard vacuum, and crash into asteroids that are packed so closely they might as well be in a traffic jam. The sheer volume of basic physics violations made it impossible to stay immersed.
The story itself is also relatively weak. The antagonists are cartoonishly one-dimensional — evil simply because they are evil — while the protagonists are much better drawn: heroic, self-doubting, and colorful. The core space-opera premise could have been enjoyable if the science had not been so distractingly awful, but the writing never rises above serviceable.
2/5 stars. Disrecommend
The story itself is also relatively weak. The antagonists are cartoonishly one-dimensional — evil simply because they are evil — while the protagonists are much better drawn: heroic, self-doubting, and colorful. The core space-opera premise could have been enjoyable if the science had not been so distractingly awful, but the writing never rises above serviceable.
2/5 stars. Disrecommend
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