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Wanting more

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2022

More exciting adventures and familiar characters making more of themselves through their actions. An exciting storyline and characters exploring and gathering forces.

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Good but needs some editing.

Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2022

Some typos and grammar mistakes or sometimes just a word completely missing from a sentence. Not often but maybe once a chapter. Otherwise this would be 4 stars.

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Wanting more

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2022

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More exciting adventures and familiar characters making more of themselves through their actions. An exciting storyline and characters exploring and gathering forces.

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Great book.

Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2022

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This was a great book. Along with all the others in the series. I really enjoyed the series completely. And I can't wait for the next book. I love the mystery in this book in the series Every time I think I have figured something out It's not exactly what I thought. And I love it Can't wait for the next 1 thank you

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Good but needs some editing.

Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2022

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Some typos and grammar mistakes or sometimes just a word completely missing from a sentence. Not often but maybe once a chapter. Otherwise this would be 4 stars.

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Guardsix

Lots and Lots of Fighting!

Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2022

Whew! This book tired me out! All that fighting and trying to not get killed. Seems like humans just gotta' kill each other no matter what! We're over planet Gaia, the sanctuary planet that the remnants of the humans from the Solar System fled to in order to escape the Chian. While the governments of Earth knew the Chian were coming for a long while, they bumbled along getting an exodus organized to the point that at the last minute it was a panic rush to get the ships through the "Passage" before they were destroyed by the Chian. Not everyone that made it through and to Gaia where best of the best which humanity needs to survive. It looks very much like Earth's humans might not make it once they start fighting amongst themselves.

It seems that one particular starship Captain has been pretty obstinate and disagreeable from the moment his ship arrived through the Passage. There were about five of these super starships each with hundreds of crew members commanded by a ship's Captain who not ranked at the very top of the very small human military chain. With Admiral Warwick not making the trip due to an unfortunate accident, small Naval military contingent was in disarray without a sole leader. Oh, the civilian side had their leadership and even one person was named as the overall leader, but the space Navy needed their Admiral so it appeared that one of the five starship Captain's would get promoted. Yet, that wasn't going to happen because the only one that wanted the job, was a ruthless egomaniac that ran his ship with an iron fist. He was also all about posturing and not really doing anything. If the five had to agree on something, you would be assured that Captain Donald Carlton would disagree. So, an old retired Admiral was brought out of retirement and was doing the job quite well to the chagrin of Captain Carlton. He still believed he was the right man to take over that Admiralty and in fact, he should have been in charge of the whole thing! From the day these remnant humans arrived at their new solar system, he started plotting to overthrown the current leadership. And he didn't care who got hurt when he executed his plan.

Meanwhile, Captain Warwick (the lost Admiral's Son) commanding the starship Daedalus and the Starship Horus were attempting to return to the Hub which was the orbiting command center over Gaia. They had just fought a horrendous battle against the Ghrell, but hadn't destroyed them completely. Still, they needed to get back to Gaia and make some much needed repairs and to make sure that idiot Captain Carlton did something stupid. He hoped they made it in time, but he really didn't know what was going on.

Well, Captain Carlton did something stupid. Events started taking place which he hadn't really intended, but a young Lieutenant, now Major who seemed to have her own visions of grandeur, killed Admiral Bachman and was going to blame it on her former boss, Captain Garland Quinn. Only he managed to flee the starship Cyngus and down to the planet Gaia. There he intended to turn over all the evidence of Captain Carlton's plot to takeover to Colonel Beth Warwick. But, the Cyngus sent a whole bunch of their Marines to make sure Quinn never gets to meet up with Col. Warwick. While this was going on, 1st Sergeant Dina Curran also had some dirt on the whole plot of Captain Carlton's and she also fled to the planet. Now the 1st SGT and Captain Quinn were both fighting against starship Cyngus' Marines although they were in separate actions not really knowing the others were there.

There's a lot to this story, but it seems to flow pretty easily. The action is fast-paced and there's a lot of it. You're not sure which side is going to win out and don't think it's the good guys because that's not necessarily the way it'll happen, maybe. I really liked all the action and seemed to be speed-reading through the book quite easily (I don't speed-read).

What I did find that some of the editing on this book could have been just a little better. There seemed to be a lot of small missing words just when the action got the hottest. It kind of made me have to stop and re-read a sentence or two just to make sure I understood what was supposed to be going on. Not overly distracting, but it was noticeable, something unusual for a John Walker book.

I'll continue to read this series because it's really, really good. It's going to be very interesting to see what happens now and that will be presented in book 9, "Swarm". I think something is coming...

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Steve Shearer

Sure Hope There's a #9 or more

Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2022

John Walker's series is a good one. The problems we have as a species has followed us into the far reaches of space. Probably no big surprise.

But, I love the charter development and find each character to be a unique individual. Good Stuff.

Hope John plans more to this series

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jonathan alsup

Minor grammar issues, awesome enough series to not care!

Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2022

I find myself waiting impatiently for the next book. If you need a good sci-fi read this series is awesome

having read this series after completing the destroyermen, And then aurora rising, i needed something new to read a few months ago but didnt have a lot of money, but i did have kindle unlimited so i gave it a try. i have downloaded all the series i could find of his. Like others i too have noticed the slight grammar mishaps, but considering they have an average release of somewhere around 5 weeks i can forgive it since they are good good books

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Trudi

Enjoying

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2022

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It apparently lost my review again, still enjoying the series. Seems like even hundreds of years later in space with the end of humanity threatened we still can't all just get along.

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Paul Head

A page turner but…

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 27, 2022

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It says something that I continued to read this series despite the serious lack of proofreading and lack of typo correction. It’s fast paced but your momentum is thrown when you have to read over several times because there’s a word missing or substituted wrongly. I got tired of reporting it .

It’s such a pity because I otherwise enjoyed it.

Robert A. Chalmers

really great story.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 16, 2022

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Fast paced action on a number of fronts, characters you’d recognise and situations common to humans. Fun for all. But beware, what set this story going 8 books back isn’t done yet. Can’t wait for book 9

Jon

Good story - too many typos and missing words

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 5, 2022

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Enjoyed this, but was annoyed by all the little mistakes - typos, missing words etc.
Detracts from the enjoyment for me.

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