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Title: Redemption
Title: Redemption
Series:
Omega Force #7
Author:
Joshua Dalzelle
Rating:
3 of 5 Stars
Genre:
SF
Pages:
304
Format:
Digital Edition
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Synopsis: |
Taking place 3 years after the previous book, Omega Force has fallen apart due to Cristoff abandoning one of the Omega Force members when they can't fulfill one of his missions. Jason tries to keep the team together but when he can't, he gives up, moves to a beach front world, becomes a delivery boy with Lucky the robot and pretty much lets himself go. He also completely burns his bridges with Kallea when rescuing Crusher.
When the princess for another galaxy spanning Empire, rivaling that of the ConFed, is kidnapped, it appears that war is going to happen and billions could die. The princess's handmaid escapes, on Jason's old delivery ship, he's involved whether he wants to be or not. The only way to rescue the princess and prevent interstellar war is to get the gang back together. But when one Super Power wants you dead and a clique within the other is plotting to take over, things might be harder than expected.
But Omega Force always gets the job done. And with this job, they have the thanks of the King of an Empire, with “mysterious” problems along its other borders. And a princess that has the hots for Cap'n Jason. * wolf whistle *
Almost like Dalzelle is setting up future story installments.
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My Thoughts: |
This starts off
with a barely functioning Jason, drunk as a skunk getting helped
along by Lucky. It was rather disconcerting, as we don't get WHY
Omega Force fell apart until some time later.
In many ways, this
felt like Dalzelle ran out of ideas for within the ConFed and so kind
of rebooted the whole Omega Force thingamajig. I didn't feel that it
was handled real well, especially with how things with Kallea went
down. Relationships, even fake ones in books, shouldn't get treated
like a drama prop.
Other
than that, this was exactly the same in tone as all the previous
Omega Force books. If I was in a cranky mood like I was when I read
Dark
Matter I'd probably rip into
this more. But I don't expect much from these, so I don't have to
give much in a review. These are like Forgotten Realms for
Science Fiction.
★★★☆☆
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