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Title: Exodus: Empires at War, Part
II
Series: Exodus: Empires at War #2
Author:
Doug Dandridge
Rating: 2.5 of 5 Stars
Genre:
SF
Pages: 283
Words: 107.5K
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Synopsis: |
The Royal Family are assassinated, leaving Prince Number 3 as the new Emperor. Only he's out on a military ship about to go into battle against the aliens who beat the snot out of humanity 1000 years ago. With no way to use faster than light messaging, this story revolves around El Princeo escaping while lots of people die to ensure his survival.
And the scum sucking traitor who set up the Royal Family dies too.
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My Thoughts: |
Unfortunately, this book could have been at least 25% shorter, if not more, if the author hadn't felt the need to walk us through every excruciating step of the various space battles. For example, when Enemy Fleet #1 fires 100 missiles at Good Guy Fleet #2, we follow all 100 missiles to the bitter end. 50 get wiped out by 40 Good Guy Fleet anti-missiles. 20 are fooled by countermeasures and speed off into deep space. 10 are destroyed by close point defenses and then the final 10 blow up ships. (So kids, when a daddy missile and a mommy ship get together that's how you get Space Debris. If you have any questions, go talk to your parents, ok?) And then there was simply over-explanation of every maneuver, every change in speed or gravity, blah, blah blah. I started skipping whole PAGES.
Then there was the sex scene. Any book that has a sex scene(s) I'm going to ding at least half a star for. But for the love of writing, if you're going to do something, do it well! This scene felt like the thoughts of a 16 year old imagining what sex must be like. If you can't write scenes like this (because you're not a pornographer or filthy smut writer) then don't include it at all. How hard is it to understand that? Gaaaaahhhh!
I called the first book “decent”. This one descended into low mediocre territory. I'll be reading the third book but if it doesn't sharply improve I'll be abandong the series. I've got close to 100 books on my kindle and 250 (those do include the 70+ One Piece manga, but still) in my TBR pile in calibre, so I'm not hurting for books. I am working on dnf'ing series much sooner than I have in the past.
★★✬☆☆
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