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Needs editing

The first chapter revealed some flaws in the structure. An info dump hidden within an action sequence. Worse, the characters doing all this dumping die at the end of the chapter. So most of it is largely irrelevant. I don't like books where you can skip the first chapter and still read the book. Why put all of that there? You just wasted my time.

When the first chapter is poorly written I have no interest in investing more time.
 
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wildwily | 1 andere bespreking | May 28, 2020 |
Needs editing

The first chapter revealed some flaws in the structure. An info dump hidden within an action sequence. Worse, the characters doing all this dumping die at the end of the chapter. So most of it is largely irrelevant. I don't like books where you can skip the first chapter and still read the book. Why put all of that there? You just wasted my time.

When the first chapter is poorly written I have no interest in investing more time.
 
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wildwily | 1 andere bespreking | May 28, 2020 |
Comparing it to the book I was reading before this it was a breath of fresh air! Plot pretty straight forward a little predictable, but overall a decent book.
 
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Mindslayer | 1 andere bespreking | Nov 18, 2015 |
The Atlantis Ship
Author: A. C. Hadfield
Date: 2015
Pgs: 402

REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS

Summary:
Freelancer. Former War Hero. He hunts a ghost ship, a legend, a Dutchman, the Atlantis Ship.

Then, the object of his quest sails out of a wormhole and starts destroying everything in its path. Carson Mach finds himself against overwhelming odds on a mission across the galaxy. If he fails, all of humanity may pay the price. The mystery of the Atlantis Ship has to be solved.

Genre:
Adventure
Fiction
Military
Science fiction
Space
Space opera
War

Why this book:
Came to me on a read for review program.
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Favorite Character:
Carson Mach, ne’er-do-well, bounty hunter, troublemaker, washout, busted out of the service. He’s very Han Solo-ish, from the attitude that comes off of him to the bar fight with one of his bounty targets in his introduction.

Tululu, the vestan engineer. Love the line where Mach wonders if she is excited about her escape or if she is just insane as she pilots her small podship around the Black Swan Orbital.

Squid, the droid. One of Babcock’s many worker droids from his lone exile planet. This one was more companion and friend during his long lonely exile.

Least Favorite Character:
Admiral Morgan comes across as a bit of a cardboard cutout and cliche. And compared to Mach and his crew’s personalities, he seems to not be fully drawn in. The parts of the book where he features feel a bit like we are being lead by the nose rather than being told a story.

Character I Most Identified With:
Carson Mach. He’s a swashbucker. He’s what I’d want to be in that world. An excellent bit of escapism imagining yourself in his shoes.

The Feel:
This is a great mix of Trek, Wars, and Firefly.

Favorite Scene:
Love the open with the poor bastard out doing exterior maintenance on Orbital Forty as the Atlantis Ship wormholes in and destroys the station underneath him.

The Shawshank from the Commonwealth prison as a way to fill out the crew was great.

Tululua’s escape from the Black Swan Orbital.

Pacing:
The pacing is good, provided you aren’t drawn offsides by the occasional editorial lapse. The back-at-command with Admiral Morgan scenes drag on the pace of the story.

Plot Holes/Out of Character:
The Captain sent to investigate the destruction of Orbital Forty being snippy with Admiral Morgan over subspace because she feels that she was sent on a wild goose chase that could have been taken care of by the natives of the local planetary system and, then, intimates to the Admiral that he isn’t in her chain of command and that she is really there to challenge the horan movements in the area. If that were the case, then, she would need to be in the area anyway and her one sentence earlier reticence about the mission to the Orbital Forty debris field doesn’t wash.

Mack and Adira’s interactions are repetitious.

Hmm Moments:
A coup in the fleet, Morgan going over his boss’s head due to his being frozen out of the command chain and put on the Atlantis Ship chase without any resources to carry out the mission. How this plays in relation to Mack’s hunt for the Dutchman isn’t clear yet. And then, the coup in wider circles playing out as well. The scenes that take place outside of Carson Mach’s presence drag.

The best scene featuring Morgan is the last scene in the denouement where he is trying to talk Mach into becoming Sky Marshal.

Why isn’t there a screenplay?
This could go big screen. Heck, it could be a series.

Casting call:
You’d have to reach outside of the obvious choices for Mach due to his similarities to Kirk, Solo, and Reynolds. Maybe Idris Elba.

Dwayne Johnson or Vin Diesel as Sanchez.

Clancy Brown as Babcock.

Jim Parsons as the voice of Squid.
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Last Page Sound:
Very nice.

Author Assessment:
The story is strong enough to overcome the editorial shorcomings.

Editorial Assessment:
The story needed a few more passes under the editor’s blade and a re-read or two from the author. The repetitiousness between Mack and Adira should have been caught by an editor.

The dialogue is very rough in places. The novel desperately needed to be edited another time.

Knee Jerk Reaction:
really good book

Disposition of Book:
e-Book

Would recommend to:
genre fans
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texascheeseman | 1 andere bespreking | May 18, 2015 |

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