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Title: The Human Factor
Title: The Human Factor
Series:
Omega Force #8
Author: Joshua Dalzelle
Rating:
3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: SF
Pages:
250
Format: Digital Edition
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Synopsis:
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Jason and Omega Force are back and on track. Only to get pushed off a cliff when they find out that human bounty hunters are looking for Jason.
Humanity has allied itself with a
little known species and has been given the slipdrive and a new
planet. All the aliens want in return is the old drive from the ship
that Burke destroyed in Savage Homecoming. This
is all being done in secret with only a select few knowing about the
wheeling and dealing. One of those select few cuts her own deal with
the aliens, takes over the colony planet and strongarms Earth into
making her its ruler.
Now it
is up to Jason, with no help, to save Earth again. Of course, one of
the girls saves his bacon. But is it the former military captain who
is now an Admiral, or the Pretty Pretty Princess? The mystery, the
enchantment, the romance of it all!
By the
end of the book Earth and everyone on it now knows they are a 1bit
player on a very large stage.
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My
Thoughts:
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The Galactic
Princess girl from the previous book is pretty much dismissed. Kellea
saves Earth but only because Lucky writes her a note telling her that
Jason still loves her. Come on, a fracking battle robot has better
relationship skills than these 2 humanoids? I don't like relational
drama in my books. Jason is still acting like an 18 year old boy
instead of the man he is. For all that the Princess was the focus of
the previous book, I also didn't like how she was just shelved when
it wasn't convenient for her to be around. It felt VERY heavy handed
by the author especially after how she was so played up before.
Other than that, I
really enjoyed the rest of the book. Probably one of the best Omega
Force books so far. There is so much potential here and it's
really only limited by the author's imagination. I hope he's up to
the task of thinking of new, cool storylines and doesn't fumble and
turn this into one of those “it's obvious the author has no idea
what to write so he just threw some stuff onto the wall to see what
sticks” kind of things.
Writing
relationships is definitely not Dalzelle's strongpoint and I hope
that he either does a lot of practice and gets better or just leaves
it alone in future books. If he can avoid making “relationships”
a prop in his stories, he'll probably be ok.
★★★☆☆
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