Customer Reviews: Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Should be a trilogy - not a 6 book series:
A series starter which makes you want to keep going: I've never been a huge reader of the type of scifi story this book represents - meaning military oriented - though I have long enjoyed those with a more social focus (Dune, Childe Cycle). I enjoyed reading Dauntless, though. It's a definite "reluctant hero" story, and it at times gets a little bit too heavy with the internal dialog in that regard, but overall I found the pace good. The inclusion of time lag in terms of communications and data gathering (like ship locations in combat situations) and other... Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, Book 1): How best to put this, I wonder. When I purchased Dauntless, I was basically (as I do from time to time) sampling another POTENTIAL author, with the interest of perhaps picking up another interesting series to follow. After reading it, I immediately ordered the other 3 titles available, and upon receiving my order, I read them all, cover to cover, back to back. A couple of late nights and bleary eyes at work the next day were all deemed *completely* worth it. I can't put it better than that, but allow me to... Not recommended for anybody over the age of 16: To be fair the rating I gave for the book does not consider that as an adult I consider this pure drivel. My rating is for the teens or under that this book is more suited for. If you are an adult looking for military Sci-Fi I would skip this. I like a little challenge, intriguing ideas and concepts and this book has none of that.
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