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Title: Odysseus Awakening
Series: Odyssey One #6
Author: Evan Currie
Rating: 4 of 5 Stars
Genre: SF
Pages: 318
Format: Digital Edition
Series: Odyssey One #6
Author: Evan Currie
Rating: 4 of 5 Stars
Genre: SF
Pages: 318
Format: Digital Edition
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Synopsis:
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The Empire sends
out another expeditionary force and they head out to a small Priminae
system to gather information. A small Priminae fleet with the new
hybrid human'priminae technology attempt to stall the fleet in hopes
that more reinforcements will arrive.
Commodore Weston
and the (very) small Earth fleet make a rescue run and eventually
drive off the bigger Imperial fleet, but not before the Imperial
Fleet gets a data core dump from a captured Priminae ship.
And at the very end
of the book, Odysseus manifests.
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My
Thoughts:
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My goodness, such pulpy spaceship and space marine fun! Obviously,
from having read about the Priminae world consciousness and Weston
learning about Earth's world consciousness, I was not at all
surprised when a ship consciousness happened. I just don't know how
it will impact the storyline in later books.
Earlier in the month I complained about Croma Venture and the
whole Spiral
Wars series by Joel Shepherd being a never ending series. As
I was reading this book I had to stop and question myself as to why I
didn't feel the same about this Odyssey
One series. One part is that each book in the Odyssey One
series is at least 25-35% shorter than in the Spiral Wars. I don't
feel like I'm “investing” my time in these, I'm just having a
short fun read. Secondly, each book here is an almost self-contained
story. While we learn little bits about the Empire or the Priminae,
etc, Currie is NOT trying to setup galaxy spanning Empires and boring
me to death with politics between them all. Thirdly, the focus of
each book is on itself instead of feeling like nothing but super long
setup for the NEXT book, which then repeats. I feel satisfied with
each of the Odyssey One books where I really didn't with the later
Spiral Wars books.
If you want romance, look elsewhere. If you want deep
characterization where every thought and possible permutation is
hashed out inside a character's mind, look elsewhere. If you want a
grand space opera with a good balance of ship to ship fighting and
ground pounder action, then look here.
I dont' ever plan on re-reading this series and usually that means
only a 3.5 rating. However, after realizing just how stingy I am with
my ratings, (3.31 average in 2018 for goodness sake) I've decided
that if I enjoyed the heck out of a book, then it deserves 4 stars.
So 4 stars with the caveat that this is not great literature. It also
isn't a waste of time. So decide which is more important to you and
choose.
★★★★☆
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