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Holistic Guidance - Valiant (The Lost Fleet, Book 4 of 6)
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List Price: $7.99
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Manufacturer: Ace
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780441016198
ISBN: 0441016197
Label: Ace
Manufacturer: Ace
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2008-06-24
Publisher: Ace
Studio: Ace
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Editorial Reviews:
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“Black Jack” Geary has ordered his fleet back to the Lakota Star System where the Syndics nearly destroyed them, a desperate gamble that may give them a fighting chance of survival—or tear them apart.
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Summary: Starting to Drag
Comment: I agree with everyone else who said this book was a step back from the previous three. The battles felt flat, I'm starting to get tired of the stock "isn't it funny how the Navy still does ____ but no one remembers why?" type scenes, and there was absolutely ZERO character or plot development in this chapter of the overall saga
Basically, other than having two people admit they're attracted to each other, nothing special happens for 300 pages.
Valiant felt, to me, like it was rushed out to satisfy a schedule. I had alot of trouble visualizing the things that the book was describing, a first in this series, and when I got to the end of the book I felt like I'd just read the first chapter of a story
Loved the first three, hope the next two are WAY better than this. If book 5 isn't a big step up I won't bother with book 6
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Summary: Great SCI FI book
Comment: This is book 4. You should read the book in order. This is the best group of books I have read in a long time. If you like non-stop action these books are for you. Well worth your money.
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Summary: Another solid sequel
Comment: If you enjoyed the previous volumes of the series you won't be disappointed.
Four star rating reflects no so much the quality of the story but the remarkable consistency starting with volume one. Don't mean the book's not good. It is. Not the best SF novel I've ever read but most certainly an entertaining read. There are a few weak points like excessive soul searching and self disparaging discourses on the main protagonists part that sometimes were rather tiresome overall pretty solid job I'd say. Start with volume one and you'll know soon enough whether you'll like the rest.
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Summary: Redundent
Comment: Good story still but less and less pages each book plus he keeps wasting pages on explaining everything everybook i mean if your reading book 4 and dont know how the meeting room works just give up reading
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Summary: Good military SF
Comment: If you haven't read the first three books in this series, go back and start at the beginning. If you have read them and enjoyed them, you will like this installment as well. Like most military SF it suffers from stuffiness -- since everyone is SO sincere, and SO self-sacrificing (except for the baddies of course, who are SO self-serving, and SO sincere in their maliciousness). However, this series doesn't seem to be quite as over the top in this regard as, say, the works of David Weber. Nevertheless it lacks the saving and ingratiating humor of Lois Bujold's Vorkosigan series.
Once past that (and the ridiculous cover art -- I mean, our hero is a fleet commander, not a marine grunt; come on!) this volume, like the others, is well plotted, with an interesting protagonist, who is presented with some interesting problems. And the space battles seem "realistic" (given the assumed technology of this future), fought with very clever tactics and stratagems.
In short, it was good enough that I will buy the next volume in the series to see how things -- if not "work out" -- progress.
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