pjonsson's review against another edition
3.0
ry. However, I found it rather poorly implemented.
The first couple of books where quite alright. Keller was introduced, there was quite a bit of nice space combat and overall it looked promising. They never managed to reach above the 3 out of 5 stars mark though. Later in the series, quite a few books never managed to reach above 2 out of 5 stars for me.
There were quite a bit of political asshattery in these first books as well but luckily during the course of the series the asshats where given the ass whooping they deserved.
However, in book 4 the author started to cater for certain segments of readers and the political bullshit and poorly hidden preaching took a turn for the worse.
From then on the series became very uneven, to me at least. Strange politics where intermixed with the good parts for the story and the good parts where not really that good to begin with. The military action, world building and strategy is very far indeed from the upper echelon of authors like David Weber, Doug Dandridge or Christopher G. Nuttall just to mention a few.
When the “real” enemy was introduced later in the series some of the actions, like “diplomatic” missions to enemy worlds and the reaction of the people on these worlds just became nonsensical. Doug Dandridge made a much better job of introducing and fighting this particular kind of enemy for instance.
So unfortunately this series was a bit of a downer for me.
The first couple of books where quite alright. Keller was introduced, there was quite a bit of nice space combat and overall it looked promising. They never managed to reach above the 3 out of 5 stars mark though. Later in the series, quite a few books never managed to reach above 2 out of 5 stars for me.
There were quite a bit of political asshattery in these first books as well but luckily during the course of the series the asshats where given the ass whooping they deserved.
However, in book 4 the author started to cater for certain segments of readers and the political bullshit and poorly hidden preaching took a turn for the worse.
From then on the series became very uneven, to me at least. Strange politics where intermixed with the good parts for the story and the good parts where not really that good to begin with. The military action, world building and strategy is very far indeed from the upper echelon of authors like David Weber, Doug Dandridge or Christopher G. Nuttall just to mention a few.
When the “real” enemy was introduced later in the series some of the actions, like “diplomatic” missions to enemy worlds and the reaction of the people on these worlds just became nonsensical. Doug Dandridge made a much better job of introducing and fighting this particular kind of enemy for instance.
So unfortunately this series was a bit of a downer for me.
sblackone's review against another edition
2.0
Not bad, but paint by numbers. It's told competently enough, but the story and characters are very clichéd. If you've read some other military sci-fi books you've seen it all before.
betsychadwell's review
3.0
I was a little skeptical of this book at first. It seemed it was just going to be a pale imitation of [b:On Basilisk Station|35921|On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington, #1)|David Weber|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1390456253s/35921.jpg|965345]. But I kept with it and enjoyed it quite a bit. Sure it echoes Honor Harrington, but I suspect that many authors borrow inspiration from others. Auberon doesn't quite measure up to David Weber, but it was a very enjoyable, and gripping, adventure. The characters and the world building still lack a little flesh, and history, but that may be rectified in future volumes of the series. The plot was pretty good. I was engaged enough to read it in two days.
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