Starship Sakira

This book started out alright and has an interesting premise, but it was rather difficult to get through. The dialogue is wooden, the characters pretty bland, a bunch of scenes simply could have, and should have been left out. There's a few instances of things being more or less repeated unnecessary. Catie, the teenager is a mary sue of a character and over all the story has little to do with the starship or the premise established in the first chapter. There's little world building, and events just fall in place for the protagonists.

I finished it more because I don't like to leave a book unfinished and had hoped it would get better, it did not. Also at one point 3D printers were mentioned and spelt as three-D.

Wow! Nice to find something new to enjoy

I've been an unlimited customer on Kindle for a long while,many have.come to accept the high volume, lesser quality, model which characterises this market. That is not to say that ‘free' books are not good books, but high volume output has its downside.

I spotted this book yesterday, and enjoyed devouring it. I really enjoy the characterisation and details interspersed here. The author clearly knows something of what he speaks and this tends to show in strange ways.

One jarring detail, for example, which highlights this skill was in the description of the veterans being recruited. There was a mention of ‘raised tables' in a bar which was interesting. Such things are rarely found in the real world (as I know myself as a 6'3” powered wheelchair user) . Few authors would use such a detail to build our a characterisation, especially in such an indirect manner.

There are many other similar details along the.same trend.

I have great hopes for the series, and fingers crossed the same level of detail will follow.