Pros:
– It’s reminiscent of 50’s / 60’s pulp science fiction where it’s set in the future but everything inexplicably mimics the culture and sensibilities of the current day. If you want Sci-Fi that won’t challenge you or present any new ideas then you’ll probably enjoy this.
Cons:
– The author is devoid of any imagination. The aliens are dogs (but not dogs, aliens that look like dogs), cats (but not cats, aliens that look like cats), and chimpanzees (but not chimpanzees, aliens that look like chimpanzees). A character takes chemicals to enhance her physical stamina and strength but the author regularly refers to them as simply “science drugs”. There are also wizards and magic, but they don’t do anything unique apart from being a Deus Ex Machina whenever the author can’t think of a way to tie two plot points together. Magic both exists within this Sci-Fi universe but also doesn’t really exist since it has no useful place within the world the author built. Further on that same idea, there’s essentially zero world building; the characters go on episodic adventures where, like a TV sitcom, things more or less return to their prior baseline after each adventure so that the characters remain unchallenged and unchanged (except someone occasionally gaining blue hair or replacement teeth).
– The author simply cannot write meaningful characters, worst of all for the women. Female characters are either frigid and cruel or they are born-yesterday sexpots. The first new crew they add is a 24 year old with a skinny waist, huge tits, and literally built like a Barbie doll, plastic features and all. The main character has all the markings of an undersexed author at work, where he’s both a committed patriarch and also a horny man-child.
– The writing style itself is bland when good and cringe beyond belief when bad. There’s a scene where the sexual tension begins between a man and woman arguing and the author literally writes, “it was a sticky situation, and it was about to get a whole lot stickier”. Why would anyone subject their audience to this level of trash? Do they hate their audience? I want to meet the author some day just to get answers to my questions, like “How dare you?”