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I'm used to self-published books having lots of copy editing errors and, honestly, less than tight plots. I'm glad to say the Starship Eternal is as good as many traditionally published novels. The plot mostly holds together. I was able to suspend disbelief and enjoy the book. There was a battle in which the hero used an asteroid field as cover, which may follow TV and movie conventions but not a real solar system, which is much less dense than the one in the book. Otherwise, I liked it.


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Starship Eternal War Eternal Book 1 eBook MR Forbes Reviews

There's some good things about this book, and some bad things. Given the number of 4 and 5 star reviews, which I strongly disagree with, I thought I'd mention some of the bad. The science here is really bad. Things like a ship lifting off the ground and within three minutes reaching the atmosphere (yeah he actually wrote that) or that the galaxy was millions of light-years around. The central premise, that although the universe is infinite and repeating in time, a particular past can be prevented from ever happening again (in an infinite future) is completely illogical. Then he adds the mystical. Turns out -because the exact "same" atoms (I know, it makes no sense) will eventually reconstitute you exactly, (each atom in the "same" position it was last time through this time loop (each loop apparently lasting hundreds of billions or hundreds of trillions or more years) that each of us possess a memory of earlier loops - memories of past futures. That is, you can recall from the last loop what you will be doing a year or a decade (etc.) from now. Real deja vu. The next problem, although the nature of the government isn't made completely clear, is the cartoonish nature of the action scenes. For instance, the police and military are, I kid you not, using military weapons shooting at one character (trying to avoid spoilers) in the middle of a major city! Riiiiiiight. I'm guessing that Mr Forbes is modeling his writing on action movies, and avoiding realism. There are other implausible critical plot points (for instance, the wife of the Prime minister of the entire galactic quadrant (which has billions and billions of inhabitants - and strangely only humans) is left, without any security protection, to wander around on her own. The writing is ok. I'm glad there is little (none that I recall) of the too typical Captain "Launch Torpedos!" Weapons Officer "Huh? Captain, are you sure..." nonsense. OTOH, one of the characters back-story involves being raped as a young college student and her implants hacked, and yet, a few years later, no one is aware that such hacks are possible. Makes no sense. Definitely wouldn't give this book more than 3 stars, nor less than 2. Although military scifi doesn't have to be written at the high school level, I'd say this one is. Unless you think it reasonable that a cadet just graduating from the Academy and after committing serious crimes would be promoted to Admiral. Not a step too far; a league too far, imho. You really have to suspend disbelief. But after just finishing it, will I buy the 2nd in the series? I can't say for sure I won't, but there's not likely to be much continuity between the first and the 2nd book, the main character's universe (or galaxy, the author seems to confuse the two concepts) has changed drastically by the end of the book. Think I'll read the reviews of the 2nd before I decide.
I needed to write this review because the current average of 4.5 stars is simply not accurate in my strong honest opinion. This is a light read and a fun read, but it is by no means an excellent or particularly thought-provoking book.
You've seen the story discussed in other reviews. Here's my perspective the primary plot mechanic "they are coming and they are going to wipe out humanity" is hackneyed, the cyclical universes is a time-travel cliche that fails to enable the suspension of disbelief, and the "science" component of science fiction isn't really there. The story progresses as a blur and the universe is very poorly developed. We don't really understand the scope of the universe, the war with the federation, the military assets, the prevailing technologies (esp. as they relate to starships & mechs), or much of anything. The science component of science fiction, where we use some creativity and semi-viable physics to add to the credibility of the story, doesn't really enter into it. The cyclical universes is weird enough, but I can stomach that; it's the undefined enemy with the single defined goal of killing the protagonist (and by extension, all of humanity) which leaves me feeling let down. Of course, our protagonist is the key to defeating these forces and so they must preemptively kill him. His own disbelief at his situation does little to improve the the low palatability of this story. At the end, the enemy is defined just enough to chalk up another Terminator parallel or two.
"Military" sci fi doesn't describe this one bit. Combat is pretty much limited to Mitchell wiping out everything with his starfighter, which somehow also got transmitted from a parallel universe and is blessed with stupid-powerful tech which allows him to repeatedly beat the odds.
Let me be honest this story is enjoyable to some extent, hence the 3 stars. It's a lot of action at a quick pace and so it's a fun read. However, the development of characters, the universe, the technology, is all lacking. And to best describe this book, I really thing it should belong in the Teen/young adult section. I would have loved this book a lot more if I were about 14, and been way interested in Mitchell's gratuitous oversexing throughout the book. But as an adult looking for a universe that'll grab me in for 5+ books, this wasn't enough to keep me going.
I'm used to self-published books having lots of copy editing errors and, honestly, less than tight plots. I'm glad to say the Starship Eternal is as good as many traditionally published novels. The plot mostly holds together. I was able to suspend disbelief and enjoy the book. There was a battle in which the hero used an asteroid field as cover, which may follow TV and movie conventions but not a real solar system, which is much less dense than the one in the book. Otherwise, I liked it.