Retribution

The Prize #2

by Rob Buckman

For Penn, the hated and despised human killer with bright, yellow, tigers eyes, the choice was simple, go on a suicide mission to a forbidden planet, or another human city with over a million men, woman and children would die. Director Markoff send seventeen cold eyed killer as his escort who'd rather see him dead than breath. So after crash land on a forbidden planet you couldn't escape from and leading a band of killer through hundreds of miles of trackless jungle full of death traps, unimaginable monsters, and alien troops. Reaching the mountain size pyramid shaped building was a walk in the park compared to what waited inside. Here, he had to face the most dangerous monster of all to collect the prize he truly wanted. But even after winning the prize, there was no rest. Now he had to put planet earth back together, build an army, navy and air force, and get ready to take the war to Director Markoff and Emperor Cytec. Just when he thought he had a handle on thing, everything went sideways and he had to fight and kill again to win the one prize he valued above all others, a beautiful, gray eyed wildcat, by the name of Alexandra Ellis.

233 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 28, 2016

Reviews

[M Hamed · Rating 1 out of 5]

it's the old familiar story of
boy meets queen of another race
boy impregnates queen of another race (fuck biology amiright)
queen of another race have an interspecies baby (like a man fucking a goat and having a goat baby)
boy goes home to his soul mate wife

(She did observe that they did hold hands a little longer than was required, but if her Queen was sad, nothing showed in public. However, there was no way to hide the fact several months later when it became obvious that their Queen was pregnant, much to the joy and speculation by the people as to who the father was. That became clear a year later when the Queen gave birth to a rather large bouncing baby boy with startling yellow eyes and the classic Silurian Mohawk hair)

[Tony Hisgett · Rating 1 out of 5]

I have learnt to ignore this author’s prologues, as they are just extracts from further in the book, but I was also a bit annoyed with the first chapter, which is just a repeat of the epilogue from the previous book.
Unfortunately I wasn’t particularly impressed with the rest of the book. The big story should be the preparation to defend Earth and there are a few instances when this is the focus, but for most of the book this isn’t the case.
The story just meanders along as Penn chases Ellis across the Galaxy. Also the author wasn’t very consistent, especially when it came to ‘Michael’s’ abilities, one minute he could do something the next he couldn’t. In fact I wondered if the author actually kept track of what he had already written in the book.
The final straw was the book just ends with the main story having made very little progress, in fact still in the middle of Penn chasing Ellis. This wouldn’t be so bad if the next book was imminent, but it has been 5 years since this was published.
I was prepared to give at least 2 stars, but leaving the series in this state for five years was just too much.

[Dave Withe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good second book in the series

Grammar and syntax vastly improved. Still a few tense endings, but those might be typo's

Keep 'em coming, they're good yarns.

[scott jones · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good author.

Write more books. But. Big but finish the series you start and don't leave the reader hanging for the next book.

[Peter Bateup]

Cracking series, but it is unfinished, when is the next book?.

Cracking series, when is the next book, you can't leave it there, it needs an ending.
PLEASE, please please, please.