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Outer Red #2
Outer Red - Part 2: The Three Little Peggs: Jeff Walker’s Outer Red, Book 1
The second part of the exciting fairytale space adventure!
The Goldilocks continues to flee as the enemy hunts them down. During their escape into the Old Sultan Solar System, Commander Red and her computer companion Grimm encounter three space stations. Three little protectors named Pegg. These three monitor and protect the region of space around the core world inside the system.
Red must reach that world if she is to save the Galactic Kingdom from certain doom. Is the mission in jeopardy? Will the Wolf Hunter vessel destroy them before they can reach their destination? Find out in this next instalment of the four-part sci fi/fantasy adventure series!
The Goldilocks continues to flee as the enemy hunts them down. During their escape into the Old Sultan Solar System, Commander Red and her computer companion Grimm encounter three space stations. Three little protectors named Pegg. These three monitor and protect the region of space around the core world inside the system.
Red must reach that world if she is to save the Galactic Kingdom from certain doom. Is the mission in jeopardy? Will the Wolf Hunter vessel destroy them before they can reach their destination? Find out in this next instalment of the four-part sci fi/fantasy adventure series!
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Published June 1, 2020
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About the author
Jeff Walker
25 books60 followersJeff Walker is a Canadian writer of science fiction, sci fi/fantasy, and paranormal/horror/weird fiction. His books comprise distant worlds, futuristic timelines, scary inter-dimensional beings, and protagonist characters of diverse personalities. So, basically... they’ll keep you interested. The 2020 Author Elite Awards placed his book The Long Lost War as a top ten finalist in the category of Science Fiction. Not too shabby, right?
Besides writing and continually looking at social media posts (we’re all slaves to it!), he tries his best to parent two energetic children with his loving wife, and keep his sanity while working his day job as a Custodian. He started out writing fan fiction (Batman Beyond, Doctor Who, The Transformers, Blade Runner...), but soon honed his talent and focused on original stories with characters to call his own. He’s a major geek for anything related to comic books, Star Trek or Star Wars, and anything dealing with the supernatural or paranormal.
And yes, he thinks the sequel trilogy of Star Wars was disappointing. (Who wouldn’t think that?)
You can follow him on his website blog, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. TikTok, not so much, he’s still trying to figure it out.
"There is no greater challenge than creating a story from scratch. A hard thing to do when basically everything has been pretty much created by now. But, that is the challenge isn't it?"
Besides writing and continually looking at social media posts (we’re all slaves to it!), he tries his best to parent two energetic children with his loving wife, and keep his sanity while working his day job as a Custodian. He started out writing fan fiction (Batman Beyond, Doctor Who, The Transformers, Blade Runner...), but soon honed his talent and focused on original stories with characters to call his own. He’s a major geek for anything related to comic books, Star Trek or Star Wars, and anything dealing with the supernatural or paranormal.
And yes, he thinks the sequel trilogy of Star Wars was disappointing. (Who wouldn’t think that?)
You can follow him on his website blog, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. TikTok, not so much, he’s still trying to figure it out.
"There is no greater challenge than creating a story from scratch. A hard thing to do when basically everything has been pretty much created by now. But, that is the challenge isn't it?"
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February 27, 2019
I was given a free copy by the author through the Goodreads giveaways program. This has no influence on my review.
Fairy tales adapted into a space opera. Sounds like a fun premise. Unfortunately, the problems outweigh the good. First problem is that this is a serialized story. That in itself is not bad, I have enjoyed several serialized stories before this one. The author does not provide a summary of what happened before. Therefore if you are new to the series, like I was, you start off at a disadvantage. The story also ends very abruptly. A good serialized story should be like a TV season. The whole season makes up the big story, but the individual episodes should also feel like you are getting a story with a beginning and ending. Instead this feels like I got chapters 7 though 11 from a full length novel.
The part that made it really hard to read was the editing. There were so many mistakes that it made reading a chore as you stopped to figure out what the author was trying to say. Words were left out, extra words were also common, and just plain using the wrong word. One really annoying common mistake was badly worded sentences. One example was something like, her lungs were recovering and wiped her brow. Now I realize he meant she wiped her brows but the way he worded it her lungs did it. Prepositions also seemed to be a problem for the author. Things like she crossed over the console when he meant she crossed over to the console (or just she crossed to the console).
The author did another thing that slowed the pace down. He was, at times, overly wordy and would basically repeat himself unnecessarily.
The premise is good. The story showed some promise but needs a lot of editing and to be tightened. A 'what has happened so far' needs to be added to the start of the book just to help new readers and possibly refresh memories of established readers as well. Finally, the book needs some kind of conclusion, even if it is a cliffhanger, instead of just stopping. Unfortunately, I can not recommend this book. Nor will I look for the earlier segment of any segments that follow.
Fairy tales adapted into a space opera. Sounds like a fun premise. Unfortunately, the problems outweigh the good. First problem is that this is a serialized story. That in itself is not bad, I have enjoyed several serialized stories before this one. The author does not provide a summary of what happened before. Therefore if you are new to the series, like I was, you start off at a disadvantage. The story also ends very abruptly. A good serialized story should be like a TV season. The whole season makes up the big story, but the individual episodes should also feel like you are getting a story with a beginning and ending. Instead this feels like I got chapters 7 though 11 from a full length novel.
The part that made it really hard to read was the editing. There were so many mistakes that it made reading a chore as you stopped to figure out what the author was trying to say. Words were left out, extra words were also common, and just plain using the wrong word. One really annoying common mistake was badly worded sentences. One example was something like, her lungs were recovering and wiped her brow. Now I realize he meant she wiped her brows but the way he worded it her lungs did it. Prepositions also seemed to be a problem for the author. Things like she crossed over the console when he meant she crossed over to the console (or just she crossed to the console).
The author did another thing that slowed the pace down. He was, at times, overly wordy and would basically repeat himself unnecessarily.
The premise is good. The story showed some promise but needs a lot of editing and to be tightened. A 'what has happened so far' needs to be added to the start of the book just to help new readers and possibly refresh memories of established readers as well. Finally, the book needs some kind of conclusion, even if it is a cliffhanger, instead of just stopping. Unfortunately, I can not recommend this book. Nor will I look for the earlier segment of any segments that follow.
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