Scimitar's Glory

Fun read! I really enjoyed this story. Came in with some new ideas. Good character development without too much background that some authors tend to over due.

I like the initial gravity well constraint on hyperspace travel. It impacts strategy and tactics in interesting ways. The storyline, main characters, and alien races introduced in this novel are pretty solid, too. I can get past the typos and grammar errors, and even the lack of planetary defenses and stealth mines and such. But the weak hyperspace math was killing me. No military is going to risk a ship on 3% to 4% odds of becoming lost in hyperspace on every jump. And the crew would have to be suicidal idiots to sign up, especially when completing a trip might take many short jumps. Even when each jump has a 97% chance of success, a trip requiring 10 jumps means that the overall chance of safely reaching your destination is only about 74%. If you are making a round trip then, when you depart, you will only about a 52% of making it back - essentially a coin flip. And that is just one round trip… The odds of losing a ship and crew rapidly approaches certainty. Always consult with scientists, engineers, and mathematicians when crafting a sci-fi story.

Unimaginative, plodding and boring. One of the few books in my life that I quit reading before the end.