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Customer Review
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 August 2020
I downloaded this as it was on offer for a limited time and after long years without reading much science-fiction I've started to look out for anything interesting or new. The book reminds me very much of something Tom Clancy might write if he wrote science-fiction, and indeed some of the scene could have come straight from Hunt for Red October. Into the Black is as much a military shoot-em-up as it is science-fiction. In line with this tradition there are many acronyms, tech-talk and descriptions of far-fetched technology.
The blurb does say this is a revised edition, and I can see why, but can also see that it could do with perhaps another pass. Normally I would never finish a book with so many changes in point of view or rolling of eyes or smirking. And there is a lot of smirking going on, even when the smirkers are hidden behind darkened masks.
So, despite its flaws I couldn't put this book down. I read the entirety of it in two sittings. If the standard of writing had been a bit higher I would have been tempted to give it five stars, but from me four is pretty good. I reserve that five for something spectacular - and only the fight scenes here are that.
Worth reading... Now, on to the rest of the series.
The blurb does say this is a revised edition, and I can see why, but can also see that it could do with perhaps another pass. Normally I would never finish a book with so many changes in point of view or rolling of eyes or smirking. And there is a lot of smirking going on, even when the smirkers are hidden behind darkened masks.
So, despite its flaws I couldn't put this book down. I read the entirety of it in two sittings. If the standard of writing had been a bit higher I would have been tempted to give it five stars, but from me four is pretty good. I reserve that five for something spectacular - and only the fight scenes here are that.
Worth reading... Now, on to the rest of the series.
