To The Stars

I am a book editor & also a published author. Most self-publishers of ebooks need editors. This one is no different. I run into this problem all the time. The concept & story are very good, and as a girl, I kept reading. The book has a lot of things that could be edited in order to make the book easier to read. At times it's too much information, and not enough substance. It takes too long to get to the obvious ending which I guessed about a 3rd of the way through it. However, the story is excellent, and fun to read. As I said...it needs an editor to edit out some of the things that add nothing to the story. Other than that, I enjoyed it. LK Kelley

So...this was an enjoyable read. I had some trouble with it because the writer was, perhaps a little too good at depicting what seems like the general outlook and character of the "corporate mind". It's a vapid, superficial, manipulative, and opportunistic sort of character, displayed by a couple of the principal characters. Much like actual corporate denizens in real life, I regard them as utterly detestable. But...the writing was good. These characters, although dislikable, were credible. So it seems like a good start to a series. My reservations have more to do with preference than with the overall quality of the writing. The idea that people so generally loathesome would still be running things in the future is disheartening. They've ruined so much already. To meet them in the future and in distant space is too disappointing. I probably won't buy anymore, but this could be an enjoyable read for someone else. More a case of the wrong reader than the wrong book.

This trilogy is overall a very pleasant read. The characters are developed enough to be engaging and most exaggerations on their archetypes are not so overblown as to be stereotypical enough to make them shallow or unbelievable. The story itself is engaging, and unless you are a scifi-natic to the n'th degree the lack of depth in descriptions of much of the technology won't be noticed. You could definitely make worse choices when choosing your reading material.