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Nate Johnson

Auteur van Drake's Rift (Taurian Empire)

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Werken van Nate Johnson

Drake's Rift (Taurian Empire) (2017) 24 exemplaren
Intrepid (2016) 15 exemplaren
Blackthorn (Taurian Empire) (2017) 7 exemplaren
Discovery (Taurian Empire) (2017) 4 exemplaren
Dauntless: Taurian Empire (2018) 3 exemplaren
The End of Everything 3 exemplaren
A Demon's Nightmare (2014) 2 exemplaren
Worth Saving (2014) 1 exemplaar
Nolan Reed (2016) 1 exemplaar

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Another stand-alone story in the Taurian 'verse ...

The world building is pretty stock; so don't expect anything special here. The characters are pretty two dimensional as well; they have an almost 60's charicature feel to them. Start with the simple, honest man (a navy petty office) who is loyal to a fault and meets a girl way out of his league. Throw them into a situation where the boy can show howmuch of a unsung hero he is and the predictable girl meets boy drama can commence. In this case, ship wreck them on a planet with a primative alien civilization where they must survive until the Empire can come rescue them. Make sure you emphasize that the expected forbidden romance could never happen ... then do it any way. That is not really a bad thing (unless you are looking for something other than pure entertainment); sometimes I want a story where the good guys are good, the bad guys are bad and the boy gets the girl in the end.

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
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Kris.Larson | Sep 13, 2021 |
Narration was pretty awesome ... 4*

The story was a short and fairly stock ... with the expected happy ending. 3*

The opening scene starts with a distress call in space and with a navy "beacon" tender coming to the rescue (a fairly obvious overlay of a USCG bouy tender crew). The details on how the naval vessel and crew operate are completely authentic ... in fact, that is part of the problem. There are some things that just don't translate well from a sea going organization to a space organization ... because they just don't make sense (and because of that just make the story awkward).

After that setup, we get the standard chase scenes ... the hero and the girl running through the streets trying to survive the guantlet of bad guys trying to prevent them from exposing evil. For the most part, this is a tried and true story arc ... and should have been better than it was if the author didn't keep tossing in comments like ladies going first so that guy can enjoy the view. I'll give you the first one free ... but I don't care to see it come up again ... and again. It gets in the way of a good girl meets boy story when the boy acts like an idiot.

The author dedicated his story "to the Twenty-Three men who lost their lives aboard the USCGC Blackthorn 1/23/81." --Semper Par

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
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Kris.Larson | Sep 13, 2021 |
The book had an interesting premise but was totally ruined by errors, poor plotting, and the lack of an editor.
 
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hillaritron | 2 andere besprekingen | Aug 16, 2021 |
Not bad...

Just not very good. There’s no heart in it. Stock characters making predictable statements. Budding romances that are so obvious it hurts.

Halfway through the book and I don’t really care who wins.

A few odd grammar moments - “twenty-our-pound”? I don’t know what that means. Also, playing fast and loose with physics.

There are better SF books out there.
 
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wildwily | 2 andere besprekingen | May 28, 2020 |

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11
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62
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#271,094
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½ 2.6
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5
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7

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