A review by righteousridel
Center of Gravity: Star Carrier: Book Two by Ian Douglas

3.0

Star Carrier continues to be entertaining and delivers quality world building. I love the aliens - they are all very different from human life and the author seems to take great pains to make sure we consider and expand our minds. The military spaceship combat is superb, with plenty of light speed limitations tossed in with softer science fiction elements.

That said… I’m still not bought into any of the characters for some reason. There is a lot of loss but they feel like just names in the history books. Not feeling emotional when characters die should indicate a weak author.

Still it’s an easy read and entertaining. An easy three stars.

SpoilerI am a bit put off by the strange insistence on exploring monogamy vs polygamy. It doesn’t add much to the story and given the few short centuries from today, seems absurd that everyone would treat monogamy with such disdain.