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Jacob Hull Series #1
Wolfhound
Ensign Jacob Hull never intended to be a hero. As a newly commissioned officer in the Celostian Navy, his goal was to serve well until the day he could retire. Then disaster strikes on his first cruise aboard the CNS Wolfhound, and he will have to display all the courage, skill and determination he has in order to keep the remaining crew members out of danger. Because if he does not, the only ones to tell the tale will be prisoners of war—if there are any left at all.
335 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 7, 2011
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September 3, 2018
5 stars.
April 28, 2019
DNF at end of sample due to being unengaged.
November 21, 2021
Nice mil sci-fi. Somewhat light on the military ranking and FTL tech, but nice overall. One of the few series where heat management is important in space. Highly recommended.
May 10, 2012
Well done space opera in the old style. Jacob is an ensign freshly billeted on the destroyer Wolfhound, and he's not too keen on being shunted into engineering and abused by other crew members. But then something happens in which the only thing between the ship's safety and destruction is him, and it keeps getting worse and worse. Will he rise to the occasion?
It's just an all-around excellent book. The characters are well done, the plot is always moving with genuinely surprising twists and turns, and there's plenty of ship-to-ship action. The problems I had with it are very minor and honestly don't detract from the book at all. It's a great genre book, but it's not going to reinvent the space opera. It's not transgressive or widely diverging from the typical "rise to meet peril" format of space opera, but it really doesn't need to be. Many times just an enjoyable, classic read is what people need, and Wolfhound is very much that.
The only other issue I had was minor. I think Jacob just needed a little more time before things went crazy to show he had the right stuff. A little more time in training, or a little more background on his spacer days. He really does rise to the occasion, and considering what he does it's a little unrealistic. But not too much to spoil the book and it's a case of wanting more, not trying to fill a hole.
If you like classic space opera, by all means pick this up. It was a lot of fun to read and makes me want to check out the rest of his works. It's a really well-crafted book.
It's just an all-around excellent book. The characters are well done, the plot is always moving with genuinely surprising twists and turns, and there's plenty of ship-to-ship action. The problems I had with it are very minor and honestly don't detract from the book at all. It's a great genre book, but it's not going to reinvent the space opera. It's not transgressive or widely diverging from the typical "rise to meet peril" format of space opera, but it really doesn't need to be. Many times just an enjoyable, classic read is what people need, and Wolfhound is very much that.
The only other issue I had was minor. I think Jacob just needed a little more time before things went crazy to show he had the right stuff. A little more time in training, or a little more background on his spacer days. He really does rise to the occasion, and considering what he does it's a little unrealistic. But not too much to spoil the book and it's a case of wanting more, not trying to fill a hole.
If you like classic space opera, by all means pick this up. It was a lot of fun to read and makes me want to check out the rest of his works. It's a really well-crafted book.
November 12, 2012
Nice easy SF, would say in the pulp genre as its not extremently deep, but a pleasant read nonetheless. Not a huge person gallery so an easy read to keep track of. I could have wished a bit more character development, whereas the action parts are perfect. So would probably just had added a couple of chapters more to the development of the persons and interactions between them.
Spoiler altert:
The one thing that did frustrate me was the "romance" part of the book, the main characater is simply too daft there. And its not really resolved in a to me likely way in book two.
Also wonder about the whole no fraternization on ships part. Not really sure I believe in this for the far future, I probably more lean towards Dan Abnett's take on this in Gaunts Ghosts series.
That said I am looking forward to book 3 (wrote this after having read book 2).
Spoiler altert:
The one thing that did frustrate me was the "romance" part of the book, the main characater is simply too daft there. And its not really resolved in a to me likely way in book two.
Also wonder about the whole no fraternization on ships part. Not really sure I believe in this for the far future, I probably more lean towards Dan Abnett's take on this in Gaunts Ghosts series.
That said I am looking forward to book 3 (wrote this after having read book 2).
May 29, 2014
Classic space opera. Young fairly brilliant ensign takes over space vessel and tries to get everybody home alive. Nothing you haven't read before, but it's okay if you're in the mood for shallow pulp space opera. The only problem I had was the editing of grammatical errors, and the predictability. I would have loved this 20 years and 100 space operas ago!
January 18, 2012
Much better than I expected. Very good Military Sci-Fi/Space Opera.
Most similar to Elizabeth Moon or the Kris Longknife series with a little Feintuch
Kept me up reading late at night which is very rare for indie books of this type
Most similar to Elizabeth Moon or the Kris Longknife series with a little Feintuch
Kept me up reading late at night which is very rare for indie books of this type
November 24, 2012
It was OK. Honor Harrington and RCN were better but it was pretty good.
February 25, 2016
Very meh, unfortunately. I wanted to really like this book; but it really fell flat for me - especially the characters :(
September 1, 2016
Ensign Jacob Hull is thrust into command of the Wolfhound and must fight the Pirates to survive. Interesting characters. Wonder what will happen next.
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