The books are entertaining as a survival / science fiction story, but it doesn’t do well when it tries to transition to a space opera / epic. Book 1 stays on focus and tells a coherent story. Book 2 stays within the same scenario, but is told from a different perspective. Book 3 goes off the rails when the story moves off-planet. The plot progession is constantly being second-guessed by main characters that can see the future and it seperates you from the story. You listen to what is happening, while being distracted wondering why this occurs when they can see the future. I really feel that it would have been a much better story if the characters didn’t have that ability. I didn’t finish it when I quit caring because it became so muddled.
The dialog also sounded forced and out of place. For example, that far in the future on other planets with hyperdrive technology, do people still call each other ‘ass-wipe’ as a term of friendship?
There were also some gratiutous sex and rape/sadism that didn’t add to the story. I didn’t need to hear it to realize the bad guys were really bad.