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Good Second book. Looking forward to book three. Note: Chapter 19 is missing… it’s a repeat of chapter 18. It throws off the pacing a little but doesn’t feel like it overly effects the story.

Wonderful redirection in this series. Back to its roots with a more small scale storyline. Character development top notch as usual.

This book was well written and narrated, and contained lots of useful ideas to think about for living a good life. I plan to come back to this one for a re-read in the future.

Makes you want to cry or scream when a good author makes the MC a freaking moron just to generate a story plot or generate ? excitement. 1 catastrophic mistake is acceptable. one after another is lazy and intolerable. Where’s the editor flinging this tripe back in the face of this author? Lazy money grab…

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I really disagree with the reviewers who said that the MC was a “whiny simpleton”, I actually found him refreshingly capable. To those who are expecting an “Asimov/Reynolds/Liu Cixin/Clarke” hard sci-fi, you will be disappointed. This book is more akin to JN Chaney/Glynn Stewart/MR Forbes (I.e. light on science, heavy on fiction). The book’s plot..

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It was ok, sounds like the next book will get back to the good stuff they used to do

The narrator is excellent! Loved his phrasing, intonation and enthusiasm. His delivery kept me extremely focused.

I’m six chapters in and I kicking myself for buying this. I will not be following any more recommendations I get from the ads on Facebook. where is the action

The story was so juvenile, with definitely no more substance than a bad YA novel. The characters were beyond silly. A marine biologist who immediately volunteers to fly a spaceship (whose pilot was killed in a crash into the sea) on a mission? To return an alien “animal” to its home world? To help out..

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Good story and characters. A different military space opera, it was a nice unexpected find