Earthrise - Super Box Set (Book 1-6): An Epic Sci-Fi Adventure
Daniel Arenson
Genre: SciFi
Mean Rating: 2.5
Review: The first three novels are pretty good. Yah you slog through the YA hormones, but the aliens/world building are really good. The only downer in the first series is the constant back story which carries through to the final series. A big distraction. How many times do we have to hear about Lailani's past or Marco's parents dying? Ten, twenty?
Rating: 3.5/5
The last series drags its feet with lengthy back story of the crews shared past in battle or their UNDYING LOVE FOR EACHOTHER. I get it, YAssholes sell books but there is a major hurdle called suspension of belief, especially where fight scenes are drawn. So you can ride a motorcycle while shooting, loading, steering and accelerating at the same time? You can burn rubber on the forest floor? And then this series really goes off script into fantasy land with giant space whales and yup, fuking weeping anthropomorphic Unicorns. Not to mention the all powerful aliens that can morph an entire world but get their asses handed to them. Fukity fuk this shjt.
We can forgive certain story line hiccups with countered character development, yet when scifi is diminished by the fantasical, enough is enough. Throughout this series there is a lot of borrowing from other works. Starship Troopers by Heinlien, Star Wars wookies/nandakis etc. This may be intentional in tribute as there are direct references to other works. There is a painted sexual array of straight and lesbianism back and forthing. It is constant and really tiring. It added nothing to the story line plus who gives a shjt?
Rating: 1.5/5
Mean Rating: 2.5
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