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Bounty Hunter Academy #1
Bounty Hunter Academy #1
Survival is just the first lesson.
When Tega's brother is abducted, she vows to get him back the only way she knows how.
By becoming a bounty hunter.
Her first pass the notoriously dangerous entrance exam at the Bounty Hunter Academy. But standing between Tega and acceptance into the academy are scores of other candidates who want the same thing she does.
And they're willing to kill to get it.
Experience Tega's thrilling journey to become a bounty hunter in Bounty Hunter Academy, the first book in a brand new series from bestselling author Hadwin Fuller.
When Tega's brother is abducted, she vows to get him back the only way she knows how.
By becoming a bounty hunter.
Her first pass the notoriously dangerous entrance exam at the Bounty Hunter Academy. But standing between Tega and acceptance into the academy are scores of other candidates who want the same thing she does.
And they're willing to kill to get it.
Experience Tega's thrilling journey to become a bounty hunter in Bounty Hunter Academy, the first book in a brand new series from bestselling author Hadwin Fuller.
- GenresScience FictionFantasy
120 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 2, 2023
About the author
Hadwin Fuller
19 books8 followersHadwin Fuller is the author of the space opera series Star Inferno. He writes sci-fi novels packed to the air seals with blaster brawls, space dogfights and misfit crews of loveable weirdos who are forced to band together to save the universe.
Like most sci-fi writers, Hadwin is the victim of a misspent youth (he blames his parents) in which his head was buried far too often in sci-fi novels and far too rarely in schoolbooks. It is from this vast expanse of wasted time that he channels his inner sci-fi writer.
Hadwin lives in Vietnam with his wife, newborn baby and robot vacuum cleaner. When he’s not pressing his eyeballs up against the display of his e-reader, Hadwin can be found blasting around town on his motorbike, loafing around in coffee shops and eating his way through every Vietnamese food they have a name for.
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Like most sci-fi writers, Hadwin is the victim of a misspent youth (he blames his parents) in which his head was buried far too often in sci-fi novels and far too rarely in schoolbooks. It is from this vast expanse of wasted time that he channels his inner sci-fi writer.
Hadwin lives in Vietnam with his wife, newborn baby and robot vacuum cleaner. When he’s not pressing his eyeballs up against the display of his e-reader, Hadwin can be found blasting around town on his motorbike, loafing around in coffee shops and eating his way through every Vietnamese food they have a name for.
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April 11, 2024
I will rate this book based on multiple different factors and rate them on a 1-10 scale. For those that don’t want to read the entire review, overall I’d give this book a 2/10, or 1 star. The premise is good, but that’s about all that is good in this short story. Potential spoilers below!
Main Character: 1/10
Tega
The main character flip flops between pretending to be a tough girl, and then switching to being completely useless, weak, and whiny. She vomits over the thought of failing the second stage. She does absolutely nothing during that entire stage. She knows almost nothing about being a bounty hunter despite it being what she’s wanted to do since her brother was kidnapped. She has no agency. The plot pushes her forward, and the multiple plot conveniences that saves her proves how useless she is to the story.
The absolute worst thing she did that drove me insane, was telling us what was happening, immediately after we saw it happen. It happened so often, that once I noticed how bad it was, the story became a slog as I didn’t want to continue any further. How is it possible that this book could be even shorter?
Some examples include Tega seeing someone swivel their head, and immediately thinks “She must have been worrying about someone else on the viewing platform overhearing our conversation.” Yes…we know what swiveling your head means when you’re having a private conversation. Or someone almost getting zapped by a laser, and another character says “Gold Two, are you ok?” Zozo responds. So what does Tega say? “I realize now it must have been Zozo that dodged the blast.” We know!
Grammar: 6/10
Overall the grammar was fine. A couple misspelled or misused words here and there. “He said” instead of “he asked” at the end of questions.
Punctuation: 1/10
Run-on sentences and missing commas abound in this story. There are paragraphs that take up entire pages. There are lists with zero commas separating them apart. I stopped counting after 50.
There were many uses of “he/she said” in the middle of the sentence. Which normally is fine, but they seemed to be inserted randomly at times, not during any sort of natural pause. Very jarring.
The author uses parenthesis when the MC talks to herself, and every single time that happened, it was completely unnecessary. Most of the time it was her sharing information we already know. Or sharing information that means nothing…to anything, or anyone. Every time that happened it was jarring, and unfortunately for me I was unable to skim them. But if I did, my sanity would’ve been better for it.
Plot: 1/10
Spoiler Alert: As others have said, for a book called the Bounty Hunter Academy, we never get to see it. The entire story involves a sort of placement test, to see who would actually make it in. It’s portrayed as dangerous, but we never see anyone actually get killed, and an Examiner even steps in to stop Stage 2.
How many stages are there, do you ask? We don’t know, because by some miracle(plot convenience) Tega is just accepted in by the Bounty Hunter Supreme. She did nothing during Stage 2, and it was canceled when they seemed to be losing(another plot convenience).
Here’s how the ending goes, another spoiler alert. The colony gets attacked, and the Bounty Hunter Supreme gets taken. She drops her gravity ring–ok, that’s smart. Despite Tega never being able to use her faulty one properly, she manages to use the BH Supreme’s with ease. The aliens conveniently left their apertures open, and they closed JUST after she entered. Despite the ship being described as massive, Tega finds her almost immediately, and it turns out she’s invincible, which is explained later. Because Tega saved her life, she lets her into the academy without any further testing.
Besides the many plot conveniences listed, the major issue I have is making the MC invincible. Now I really don’t care what happens anymore. The stakes have been lowered so drastically, that anything that happens in the future doesn’t matter anymore. Nothing will happen to our MC, because she literally cannot die.
There are lots of other plot holes in the story, but this review will be too long as it is.
Setting/Worldbuilding: 1/10
The setting takes place on Comet Breaker Colony, and that’s about all we know about it. So much is thrown at you so fast in regards to other places that it means nothing to the reader when it is never mentioned again.
Are we on Earth? Are we in our solar system? How far in the future are we? There are references to Earth later in the story, and that’s about all we got.
The worst part about the worldbuilding in this story is the jargon. Tega speaks like she lives in this world, ok good, but talks in such a way that it doesn’t make sense to the reader whatsoever. Objects, animals, and aliens are mentioned in a flash and then never spoken of again. There is no reference to what any of these things mean. If it was shown naturally, instead of as throwaway lines, then maybe it’d help. With Earth being a real place in this universe, the author could’ve easily made the connection through that avenue, but chooses to force the readers to learn a new language.
“A laser disc can cut right through a stone rhinoceros.” Ok, what does that mean!? I have no idea how strong either of those two things are!
There’s a sport where the athletes kick a two-TON ball. Tega early on gets kicked by one of the shoes that’s used in that sport, and apparently pretty hard. She’d be dead, but thanks to her invincibility she’s fine, I guess.
Still don’t know how much a single zenthar is. BH’s make 5k zenthars a year. Ok cool, is that a lot? We’ll never know.
Dialogue: 1/10
Unfortunately this score got hit by the Tega effect, over explaining things that we are seeing right in front of our eyes.
Besides the dialogue from the MC, the rest isn’t any better. It’s all cheesy and childish. The worst insult you’ll see in the book is “idiot”, and it’s said from an Examiner to a child, what a great guy. There are other insults but again, with the jargon, it means nothing.
In some cases the over explaining is so bad it’s like a bad soap opera. For example, the above mentioned Examiner asks someone that’s bullying Tega if they know what an Examiner is. Instead of saying “Yes”, he goes on a super long-winded explanation that is so unnatural it’s clearly meant to be toward the readers. Now, THAT would’ve been the perfect time for Tega to step in and explain it to us, instead of the bully explaining it to the person that clearly knows what it is.
Side Characters: 2/10
Zozo
Comes off as unlikeable right away, but grows on you, slightly. She likes drugging her brothers to read a book of theirs, and gets snippy with the MC almost immediately. Another convenient character as all six of her brothers were bounty hunters, and happens to stay partnered up with Tega.
Pygott
Classic bully with rich parents. Shallow personality. Him and Harkum are the same person; lazy character writing.
BH Examiner
I forgot his name, and will not bother to re-download the book to look it up. He’s old, he’s strong, and he likes to call kids idiots.
BH Supreme
The only reason I raised this score up by 1. She was interesting, and felt like she had a deeper story going on behind the scenes. I was way more interested in her life than anything else going on in the story, and there wasn’t even that much shared.
Overall: 13/70 or 19/100
Bounty Hunter Academy is a rough draft full of shallow characters, terrible dialogue, and riddled with plot holes. I didn’t even mention the parents, her failure of a plan, or the many other things that don’t make sense when you look just past the surface, all in under 200 pages.
The fact that book 2 is also under 200 pages, leads me to believe this is a blatant cash grab by spreading a 600 page book into 3. Unfortunately the first one was so terrible, I will never know how it ends, and I don’t care to. If I happen to run into this author again, it will be with tremendous hesitation. But more likely, I will skip anything they write, and save my zenthars, whatever that means.
Main Character: 1/10
Tega
The main character flip flops between pretending to be a tough girl, and then switching to being completely useless, weak, and whiny. She vomits over the thought of failing the second stage. She does absolutely nothing during that entire stage. She knows almost nothing about being a bounty hunter despite it being what she’s wanted to do since her brother was kidnapped. She has no agency. The plot pushes her forward, and the multiple plot conveniences that saves her proves how useless she is to the story.
The absolute worst thing she did that drove me insane, was telling us what was happening, immediately after we saw it happen. It happened so often, that once I noticed how bad it was, the story became a slog as I didn’t want to continue any further. How is it possible that this book could be even shorter?
Some examples include Tega seeing someone swivel their head, and immediately thinks “She must have been worrying about someone else on the viewing platform overhearing our conversation.” Yes…we know what swiveling your head means when you’re having a private conversation. Or someone almost getting zapped by a laser, and another character says “Gold Two, are you ok?” Zozo responds. So what does Tega say? “I realize now it must have been Zozo that dodged the blast.” We know!
Grammar: 6/10
Overall the grammar was fine. A couple misspelled or misused words here and there. “He said” instead of “he asked” at the end of questions.
Punctuation: 1/10
Run-on sentences and missing commas abound in this story. There are paragraphs that take up entire pages. There are lists with zero commas separating them apart. I stopped counting after 50.
There were many uses of “he/she said” in the middle of the sentence. Which normally is fine, but they seemed to be inserted randomly at times, not during any sort of natural pause. Very jarring.
The author uses parenthesis when the MC talks to herself, and every single time that happened, it was completely unnecessary. Most of the time it was her sharing information we already know. Or sharing information that means nothing…to anything, or anyone. Every time that happened it was jarring, and unfortunately for me I was unable to skim them. But if I did, my sanity would’ve been better for it.
Plot: 1/10
Spoiler Alert: As others have said, for a book called the Bounty Hunter Academy, we never get to see it. The entire story involves a sort of placement test, to see who would actually make it in. It’s portrayed as dangerous, but we never see anyone actually get killed, and an Examiner even steps in to stop Stage 2.
How many stages are there, do you ask? We don’t know, because by some miracle(plot convenience) Tega is just accepted in by the Bounty Hunter Supreme. She did nothing during Stage 2, and it was canceled when they seemed to be losing(another plot convenience).
Here’s how the ending goes, another spoiler alert. The colony gets attacked, and the Bounty Hunter Supreme gets taken. She drops her gravity ring–ok, that’s smart. Despite Tega never being able to use her faulty one properly, she manages to use the BH Supreme’s with ease. The aliens conveniently left their apertures open, and they closed JUST after she entered. Despite the ship being described as massive, Tega finds her almost immediately, and it turns out she’s invincible, which is explained later. Because Tega saved her life, she lets her into the academy without any further testing.
Besides the many plot conveniences listed, the major issue I have is making the MC invincible. Now I really don’t care what happens anymore. The stakes have been lowered so drastically, that anything that happens in the future doesn’t matter anymore. Nothing will happen to our MC, because she literally cannot die.
There are lots of other plot holes in the story, but this review will be too long as it is.
Setting/Worldbuilding: 1/10
The setting takes place on Comet Breaker Colony, and that’s about all we know about it. So much is thrown at you so fast in regards to other places that it means nothing to the reader when it is never mentioned again.
Are we on Earth? Are we in our solar system? How far in the future are we? There are references to Earth later in the story, and that’s about all we got.
The worst part about the worldbuilding in this story is the jargon. Tega speaks like she lives in this world, ok good, but talks in such a way that it doesn’t make sense to the reader whatsoever. Objects, animals, and aliens are mentioned in a flash and then never spoken of again. There is no reference to what any of these things mean. If it was shown naturally, instead of as throwaway lines, then maybe it’d help. With Earth being a real place in this universe, the author could’ve easily made the connection through that avenue, but chooses to force the readers to learn a new language.
“A laser disc can cut right through a stone rhinoceros.” Ok, what does that mean!? I have no idea how strong either of those two things are!
There’s a sport where the athletes kick a two-TON ball. Tega early on gets kicked by one of the shoes that’s used in that sport, and apparently pretty hard. She’d be dead, but thanks to her invincibility she’s fine, I guess.
Still don’t know how much a single zenthar is. BH’s make 5k zenthars a year. Ok cool, is that a lot? We’ll never know.
Dialogue: 1/10
Unfortunately this score got hit by the Tega effect, over explaining things that we are seeing right in front of our eyes.
Besides the dialogue from the MC, the rest isn’t any better. It’s all cheesy and childish. The worst insult you’ll see in the book is “idiot”, and it’s said from an Examiner to a child, what a great guy. There are other insults but again, with the jargon, it means nothing.
In some cases the over explaining is so bad it’s like a bad soap opera. For example, the above mentioned Examiner asks someone that’s bullying Tega if they know what an Examiner is. Instead of saying “Yes”, he goes on a super long-winded explanation that is so unnatural it’s clearly meant to be toward the readers. Now, THAT would’ve been the perfect time for Tega to step in and explain it to us, instead of the bully explaining it to the person that clearly knows what it is.
Side Characters: 2/10
Zozo
Comes off as unlikeable right away, but grows on you, slightly. She likes drugging her brothers to read a book of theirs, and gets snippy with the MC almost immediately. Another convenient character as all six of her brothers were bounty hunters, and happens to stay partnered up with Tega.
Pygott
Classic bully with rich parents. Shallow personality. Him and Harkum are the same person; lazy character writing.
BH Examiner
I forgot his name, and will not bother to re-download the book to look it up. He’s old, he’s strong, and he likes to call kids idiots.
BH Supreme
The only reason I raised this score up by 1. She was interesting, and felt like she had a deeper story going on behind the scenes. I was way more interested in her life than anything else going on in the story, and there wasn’t even that much shared.
Overall: 13/70 or 19/100
Bounty Hunter Academy is a rough draft full of shallow characters, terrible dialogue, and riddled with plot holes. I didn’t even mention the parents, her failure of a plan, or the many other things that don’t make sense when you look just past the surface, all in under 200 pages.
The fact that book 2 is also under 200 pages, leads me to believe this is a blatant cash grab by spreading a 600 page book into 3. Unfortunately the first one was so terrible, I will never know how it ends, and I don’t care to. If I happen to run into this author again, it will be with tremendous hesitation. But more likely, I will skip anything they write, and save my zenthars, whatever that means.
December 9, 2023
This book is a painful dump taken over a dumpster fire. The writing is atrocious: full of missing words, spelling errors, illogical leaps, and erratic thoughts. One would think that this was an AI storymaking attempt. It completely lacks substance. What I mean by that is that all good writing shares in the skill of taking the time to build a scene or character with interesting description. This book tries to serve a pigeon skeleton for Thanksgiving dinner. My suggestion to ChatGPT Hadin is to tidybowl this and to start completely over again. The premise of the book is a golden opportunity and the reason I picked it up in the first place. Giving ya'll warned readers a small credit of time back.
March 11, 2025
Ah, so, couple of issues here. I thought it was a book about being in bounty hunter school. Instead it was a main character who really wanted to do something, but managed to get to the point of doing it only to discover she hadn't actually thought about ANYTHING to do with that - tests, people, everything. She just didn't bother to study/learn/train (well, there's some mention of training but in sort of a throw-away barely relative comment). And we don't go to school at all. I guess that's the next book. Also, this is a 150ish page book. A novella really. Maybe the second book would resolve me issues, but I won't be reading it.
February 27, 2024
This a fast interesting sci-fi novella with a quirky little plot with a couple good twists. This wasn’t the best novel out there but it wasn’t the worst either. The story is set in space and the humans have realized they’re not the biggest or baddest out in the universe. Bounty Hunter Academy was built to help protect humans from the baddies of the universe. The characters or world building isn’t flushed out but with the length this makes sense. I look forward to seeing if the net book will show us more into these characters and this universe’s building expansion.
May 18, 2024
A real different type of book to read , but worth it.
A young see her brother get taken away by a alien race and has to figure out how to save him. But that is just the beginning , then she decided that she had to be a bounty hunter . This is wear everything gets real strange for her because she had to a license for bounty hunter, by going to school. The did a good job with the book and keeps you wanting more.
A young see her brother get taken away by a alien race and has to figure out how to save him. But that is just the beginning , then she decided that she had to be a bounty hunter . This is wear everything gets real strange for her because she had to a license for bounty hunter, by going to school. The did a good job with the book and keeps you wanting more.
March 26, 2024
short story
This is not a book, it’s a short story. For its price it is not worth it, especially knowing that the other books are more expensive and probably of the same length. Is it good? It’s decent, but at the same time it is simple, powers are just suddenly there, not much is explained, and ends in a cliffhanger. So while I enjoyed most of it, it’s not worth my money.
This is not a book, it’s a short story. For its price it is not worth it, especially knowing that the other books are more expensive and probably of the same length. Is it good? It’s decent, but at the same time it is simple, powers are just suddenly there, not much is explained, and ends in a cliffhanger. So while I enjoyed most of it, it’s not worth my money.
June 15, 2024
Fear becomes bravery
A highly relatable main character, in over her head yet determined to proceed regardless. Tega is reckless and brave, fighting her fears, sometimes she succeeds. The world is well crafted and easily imagined.
I thoroughly enjoyed this story and will continue the series.
A highly relatable main character, in over her head yet determined to proceed regardless. Tega is reckless and brave, fighting her fears, sometimes she succeeds. The world is well crafted and easily imagined.
I thoroughly enjoyed this story and will continue the series.
December 28, 2023
Fun but quick book
Great little story with a fascinating premise. Didn't really expect the twist at the end, but that made it more fun. Looking forward to reading the next book in the series!
Great little story with a fascinating premise. Didn't really expect the twist at the end, but that made it more fun. Looking forward to reading the next book in the series!
February 23, 2024
Surprise ending
Just when you think she is just a little girl she is much more. We just have a hint of what she is, so will have to wait for more. Wonder how this will be explained to her classmates.
Just when you think she is just a little girl she is much more. We just have a hint of what she is, so will have to wait for more. Wonder how this will be explained to her classmates.
March 23, 2024
This is a great series
I'm amazed that this author can write so many fantastic novels, I hope that he never stops writing. His books are some of the best Entertainment I have read and worth the time to read them. Thank you for a very fun entertaining read.
I'm amazed that this author can write so many fantastic novels, I hope that he never stops writing. His books are some of the best Entertainment I have read and worth the time to read them. Thank you for a very fun entertaining read.
June 12, 2024
By "bounty hunter" Fuller means "space super hero." The MC's story pacing has a double NO2 burst that is just too much for the first book of an "Academy" series.
Please never mention crimsonvine and crumbled pagoda (or whatever) again.
Please never mention crimsonvine and crumbled pagoda (or whatever) again.
June 18, 2024
Love the world building!
A great YA story where humans are trying to stay in their bubble while alien races infiltrate their homes. Fast paced, easy to read, and entertaining. Highly recommend!
A great YA story where humans are trying to stay in their bubble while alien races infiltrate their homes. Fast paced, easy to read, and entertaining. Highly recommend!
October 3, 2024
Good book but don't bother with the sequel.
Good book but don't bother with the sequel.
World building and main character are good. Side characters are lacking depth. Over all a good start but sadly that all falls apart in book 2 with inconsistencies and a bad story line.
Good book but don't bother with the sequel.
World building and main character are good. Side characters are lacking depth. Over all a good start but sadly that all falls apart in book 2 with inconsistencies and a bad story line.
April 24, 2025
A very twisted coming of age story
A very interesting beginning to this series. I am anxiously waiting for the explanation for how the deus ex works it's magic on the protagonist and whether she will learn to control it.
A very interesting beginning to this series. I am anxiously waiting for the explanation for how the deus ex works it's magic on the protagonist and whether she will learn to control it.
January 21, 2024
YA stuff.
February 9, 2024
Cool Read
...and I only found 1 typo!
Without giving anything away, I liked the main character and was pleasantly surprised by the twist in the plot.
Looking forward to the sequel!
...and I only found 1 typo!
Without giving anything away, I liked the main character and was pleasantly surprised by the twist in the plot.
Looking forward to the sequel!
Did Not Finish
March 18, 2024DNF'd at 37%.
Meh. Writing wasn't compelling enough to hold my interest.
Borrowed from Kindle Unlimited.
Meh. Writing wasn't compelling enough to hold my interest.
Borrowed from Kindle Unlimited.
October 26, 2025
pretty good start
Pretty good start to the series, I wouldn’t say it drew me in straight away but kept me interested throughout the book so that the best kind
Pretty good start to the series, I wouldn’t say it drew me in straight away but kept me interested throughout the book so that the best kind
December 30, 2024
No Bounty Hunting or Academy
The book is short and very quick to read. It has no bounty hunting or academy tending. The pacing needs to be slowed down and the major plot points spread out. The actual time at the academy and learning about bounty hunters, their job, their rules and regulations would have been interesting, and why I bought the book. I want to say the first book ends with the promise of all this being in the second but, I felt the first had that same promise too. Enjoyable writing story-wise outside the missing points and pacing. Characters are also extremely underdeveloped due to length and quickness. I'm glad I got the book on sale but, won't be continuing the series.
The book is short and very quick to read. It has no bounty hunting or academy tending. The pacing needs to be slowed down and the major plot points spread out. The actual time at the academy and learning about bounty hunters, their job, their rules and regulations would have been interesting, and why I bought the book. I want to say the first book ends with the promise of all this being in the second but, I felt the first had that same promise too. Enjoyable writing story-wise outside the missing points and pacing. Characters are also extremely underdeveloped due to length and quickness. I'm glad I got the book on sale but, won't be continuing the series.
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