The Void War

About as Dumb an eBook As it Gets"The Void War, Empire Rising Book 1," is a badly conceived, poor constructed, and ineptly written wannabe space opera homage to the "olde and goodie" Pax Britannica.The author is apparently enamored with Victorian, Edwardian, and all of British aristocracy. It's as if "Colonel Blimp," wrote the eBook, without any of the satire or comedy. The inane storyline concept has Earth's major countries, four (4) centuries in the future, engaged in a mad "land grab," of int

I'd have given it 4 stars but the writing kept knocking me out of the story. Whenever a ship exited slip space, it "excited slip space."The officer on the ship was not a purser, but a "pursuer.""throughout known space there was five shift passages."Don't misunderstand, I'm not angry about reading this book. I recognize that authors have styles and sometimes what might be a cultured English writer strikes me as an Ozark redneck bashing a keyboard. It happens. The frequency of mangled English led

The overarching story is fine, if very tired, been done a million times before. There are a few attempts to inject some originality, but unfortunately a series of errors due to lack of research and lack of thought in how the various threads have been brought together (or not) means chunks of the story are jarring and often ridiculous. Clearly not much though has been given over to integrating the various ideas.The characters are unconvincing. In military sci-fi I expect the military aspects to b