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Dark Space: The Complete Series (Books 1-6) (Jasper Scott Box Sets)

Dark Space: The Complete Series (Books 1-6) (Jasper Scott Box Sets)

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5.0 out of 5 starsEntertaining space listening 🎶🔰
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 9, 2023
Six will written space opera fantasy world 🌎 Sci-Fi adventures thrillers by Jasper T. Scott (Dark Space the complete Series books 1-6). I listened 🎶to each of these individually. Each story line is complicated different with interesting characters with lots of twist, turns, action, and violence leading to the unexpected conclusions. I would highly recommend this series and author to 👍 readers of paranormal space opera adventure novels 👍🔰. Enjoy the adventure of reading or listening to books 📚. 2023 😮👒😡

Jasper T. Scott is one of my favorite space opera authors. Happy reading in 2023 😀
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A. Rutter
3.0 out of 5 starsHumanity is composed of only the most deplorable
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 3, 2022
The writing in this series ranges from absolutely superior, through dull and boring, to made entirely of ancient clichés. (When was the last time you read 'her alabaster white skin…?) Different books in the series seem to contain differing amounts of each style.

To the above, you have to add the absolutely worst and most despicable aspects of humanity. This debauchery and total lack of morals seems to run throughout all of mankind. Even the 7-year-old uses xenophobic, alt-future racial slurs as part of her normal speech. Of course, profanity is sanitized by using future-sounding fake-words, all far too obvious for what they are.

After the third book, a couple major characters go away, new characters appear, characters change personalities, and the story morphs to a much different set of circumstances. It could have been done as a similar series rather than a continuation. It also become quite difficult to follow the multiple story lines, morphing characters, and contradictory time line. For example, not counting flash-backs, at one point, the main story is specifically described as flowing over a single year. However, that year includes more than a few 6-month travel-times; changes in the age of younger characters of at least a year; multiple jumps of '#-months later'; and at least one reference to 'over the course of the years', for a character-pair. Later, we jump about 8 years forward. As for redeeming qualities, the characters don't seem to have many (if any).

When the writing is at its high-points, reading is very fluid. The conclusion of the story is far more complete than just about any other SciFi I've read recently. About 70% of the time, the series has a really impressive writing style and is a good read. It's the other 30%, plus the depravity of all characters, that's troubling.

One thing I can say, for 99 cents, I did get a lot of reading-time. I'm just not particularly fond of the way characters, and to some extent the story line itself, are handled.

Afterthought: I found it interesting that Mr. Scott used the same name for the computer/God that Brian Herbert & Kevin Anderson used in the Dune prequels. (According to the copyright dates, the Dune books came well before this series.) I'm not sure if the reference was deliberate, but it seems appropriate.

If you like apocalyptic stories, or the dregs of humanity, this is a very well written example. I just can't really get into the approach.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining space listening 🎶🔰
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 9, 2023
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Six will written space opera fantasy world 🌎 Sci-Fi adventures thrillers by Jasper T. Scott (Dark Space the complete Series books 1-6). I listened 🎶to each of these individually. Each story line is complicated different with interesting characters with lots of twist, turns, action, and violence leading to the unexpected conclusions. I would highly recommend this series and author to 👍 readers of paranormal space opera adventure novels 👍🔰. Enjoy the adventure of reading or listening to books 📚. 2023 😮👒😡

Jasper T. Scott is one of my favorite space opera authors. Happy reading in 2023 😀
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Tom
5.0 out of 5 stars A great read!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 25, 2023
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While long and at times seeming a little confusing, the author has done a great job making it all come together in a great way.
Has a lot of unexpected twists making you want to keep reading. Very thought-provoking.

A very good series!
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NomadU
4.0 out of 5 stars Fluffy but cohesive science fiction series
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 6, 2021
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I originally picked up Dark Space book 1 as part of an Amazon giveaway. Within the first one hundred pages, the story and writing style caused me to seek out and purchase the remainder of the series.

Foremost, the Dark Space series is an easy read. This isn't to say that the books are basic by any stretch, but that the writing style allowed me to flow through the story, never feeling tired by exhaustive description of settings or ideas that take pages upon pages to unfold. Think of the series more as a good TV series or movie where the action just keeps flowing. You get to know the characters by their actions and their interests, not by lengthy inner monologues that stretch on. Additionally, character introduction is kept reasonable through the series. This isn't Song of Fire and Ice with ten new characters coming and going in each book, changing names along the way. Instead, you really get to know the main characters throughout the series and the ensemble increases only as the "world" of the main characters increase. The reading was always managable throughout my time with the series and it allowed me to really just enjoy the story.

Oh boy, the story. Well, I'll say it really goes places. The very beginning of the first book introduces the new state of humanity, hiding away from an alien threat that destroyed the majority of civilization in what is obviously a distant future of vast human space expansion. It's a struggle for survival and an effort to regain what was lost for the characters. But that's not all. More is introduced to the story as the series goes on, taking this small scope of what's left of humanity and expanding it to almost the full scope of their reality. The characters and the reader are taken on a ride, but not a bumpy one. I will commend Scott for seemingly having a vision for the entirety of the series. Sure, there are some pacing changes here and there, most notibly at the very end of the series, but up until that point I felt like there had to have been a large push-pin board with posted notes of the entirety of the story even before the first book was written. You won't find random characters thrown in for no reason or unexplained motivation changes. Instead, the series just flows through.

With the above being said about the writing and the story, don't expect to put the book down at the end of each read questioning life. It's fluffy, and that's not a bad thing. There are some twists and turns and "Wow, didn't see that coming", but as I said before the reading never feels bogged down.

About the only negative I can say about the book series is that there are some editing errors here and there. They are minimal, but there are times when the errors change the meaning of a sentence, leaving me wondering what exactly what intended. Again, these are minimal and in no way ruin the overall experience.

If you're looking for a sci-fi adventure series that spans galaxies, has good characters, and a story that keeps you wondering what's going to happen next, then pick up the Dark Space series.
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Greg
4.0 out of 5 stars Lots of twists and turns
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 28, 2022
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At times it seems to be too many characters to track. Lots of action. Just when you think the author has last track of his characters…. It comes together for a surprise conclusion and set up for continuing adventures.
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D. Curtis
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 18, 2022
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Long, drawn out but never dull. An excellent read front to back. Amazing imagination and vivid descriptions of imaginary places and times. If you like believable but outlandish plots, this set is for you!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Kind of a whirlwind odyssey. An intriguing space opera .
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 29, 2022
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Many twists and turns, ups and downs, possibilities and impossiblities, and questions, questions, questions.
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gillian green
4.0 out of 5 stars intriguing concept
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 15, 2022
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This series kept my interest from chapter one to the very end. Remarkable ideas, well presented and beautifully written. Thank you, Jasper, for a mind twisting tale.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Humanity is composed of only the most deplorable
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 3, 2022
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The writing in this series ranges from absolutely superior, through dull and boring, to made entirely of ancient clichés. (When was the last time you read 'her alabaster white skin…?) Different books in the series seem to contain differing amounts of each style.

To the above, you have to add the absolutely worst and most despicable aspects of humanity. This debauchery and total lack of morals seems to run throughout all of mankind. Even the 7-year-old uses xenophobic, alt-future racial slurs as part of her normal speech. Of course, profanity is sanitized by using future-sounding fake-words, all far too obvious for what they are.

After the third book, a couple major characters go away, new characters appear, characters change personalities, and the story morphs to a much different set of circumstances. It could have been done as a similar series rather than a continuation. It also become quite difficult to follow the multiple story lines, morphing characters, and contradictory time line. For example, not counting flash-backs, at one point, the main story is specifically described as flowing over a single year. However, that year includes more than a few 6-month travel-times; changes in the age of younger characters of at least a year; multiple jumps of '#-months later'; and at least one reference to 'over the course of the years', for a character-pair. Later, we jump about 8 years forward. As for redeeming qualities, the characters don't seem to have many (if any).

When the writing is at its high-points, reading is very fluid. The conclusion of the story is far more complete than just about any other SciFi I've read recently. About 70% of the time, the series has a really impressive writing style and is a good read. It's the other 30%, plus the depravity of all characters, that's troubling.

One thing I can say, for 99 cents, I did get a lot of reading-time. I'm just not particularly fond of the way characters, and to some extent the story line itself, are handled.

Afterthought: I found it interesting that Mr. Scott used the same name for the computer/God that Brian Herbert & Kevin Anderson used in the Dune prequels. (According to the copyright dates, the Dune books came well before this series.) I'm not sure if the reference was deliberate, but it seems appropriate.

If you like apocalyptic stories, or the dregs of humanity, this is a very well written example. I just can't really get into the approach.
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Danielle T.
4.0 out of 5 stars 2000 pages and I did not figure it out until the last 20-30 pages
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 31, 2022
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No spoilers here.
I thought I had figured out what would happen several times while reading the book(s). However, there were several twists and turns that kept changing how I "figured it out". Due to that it maintained my interest as I was trying to determine what would happen next. I read the first book and I had to purchase the remaining series because I was intrigued and had to know the end. I enjoyed reading the story.
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God's Crissie
5.0 out of 5 stars a wow! read
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 24, 2022
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Constant action, imaginative foreign worlds and a surprising, satisfying conclusion.
A rebel hero, a galaxy-wide fight between species, a power-hungry AI, death and cloning, old tech vs new tech… this book has it all! About book 5, I got lost with all the characters—who was a good guy, who was being controlled by evil, who was alive and who had died or been reborn…but I stayed with it, and it all came clear in amazing ways.
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