This one was too "hard" sci-fi for my taste. I don't care for space novels where we all have to wait 30 minutes for light to catch up to us to see what occurred 30 minutes ago. Plus, there seemed to be a lot of political elements included- not interested in that. I also don't like names with apostrophes. It makes it hard to pronounce. The same characters had multiple names or appeared that way. The writing skill was competent. I did not enjoy this book, and I doubt anyone but a hard science SF fan would. It's definitely got some gems in it - the strong point was definitely the book's xenobiology and description of a fascinating new alien species - but all in all, there were so many negatives that the experience was spoiled. Here are a few big ones:-The main character sucked. His name was Grey, and he was about as exciting as his name suggested. You could tell the author didn't care about him, so neither did I. He shares very little emotion with the reader, developed 0 meaningful relationships with other characters, and comes off as a passion-less robot. Sort of dislikable, even. The Admiral Koenig character was better, but similarly underdeveloped.-The hardcore science took all the joy out of fleet combat. I have never in my life read a book with more redundant writing about the positioning and timing of objects in space. For every sentence of actual battle description - you know, ships blowing up, pilots facing life-or-death situations, exciting stuff - there was about a page describing in meticulous detail how many hours, minutes, and seconds a ship was away from another ship, but then taking into account trajectory and angle and velocity and gravitational pull and... you get the point. I applaud hard science in SF, but this was overkill. It was a textbook in paperback form.-Some of the combat-specific details of fleet combat were questionable. In the first major battle, a squadron of 12 fighters lasts multiple hours in a dogfight against 60 enemy capital ships and hundreds of fighters. The 'good guy' fighters still take out around 15 capital ships. Seems legit... Not. It takes the fun out of the story when you don't believe it could be real.
Do You like book Earth Strike (2010)?
Amazingly close to factual.You can almost see the future happening.
—saba31
Enjoyable with what seems to be very plausible future science....
—angie
