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Aeon 14: The Intrepid Saga #3
Building Victoria
The Intrepid is drifting slowly between the stars.
After near calamity at LHS 1565, the ship is headed for Kapteyn's Star to make repairs. There, the crew will need to spend decades building a temporary industrial base.
Across the void, the Noctus prepare to leave Sirius for the same destination. Their plan is to colonize the system and forge a new lives for themselves ... if they aren't destroyed by their government first.
In an epic tale spanning over a century, General Tanis Richards finds herself in another fight for her life as the new colony of Victoria is built under the threat of interstellar war.
After near calamity at LHS 1565, the ship is headed for Kapteyn's Star to make repairs. There, the crew will need to spend decades building a temporary industrial base.
Across the void, the Noctus prepare to leave Sirius for the same destination. Their plan is to colonize the system and forge a new lives for themselves ... if they aren't destroyed by their government first.
In an epic tale spanning over a century, General Tanis Richards finds herself in another fight for her life as the new colony of Victoria is built under the threat of interstellar war.
346 pages, ebook
First published July 1, 2016
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M.D. Cooper
186 books522 followersMalorie Cooper likes to think of herself as a dreamer and a wanderer, yet her feet are firmly grounded in reality.
A ‘maker’ from an early age, Malorie loves to craft things, from furniture, to cosplay costumes, to a well-spun tale, she can’t help but to create new things every day.
A rare extrovert writer, she loves to hang out with readers and people in general. If you meet her at a convention, she just might be rocking a catsuit, cosplaying one of her own characters, or maybe her latest favorite from Overwatch!
She shares her home with a brilliant young girl, her wonderful wife (who also writes), a cat that chirps at birds, a never-ending list of things she would like to build, and ideas…
A ‘maker’ from an early age, Malorie loves to craft things, from furniture, to cosplay costumes, to a well-spun tale, she can’t help but to create new things every day.
A rare extrovert writer, she loves to hang out with readers and people in general. If you meet her at a convention, she just might be rocking a catsuit, cosplaying one of her own characters, or maybe her latest favorite from Overwatch!
She shares her home with a brilliant young girl, her wonderful wife (who also writes), a cat that chirps at birds, a never-ending list of things she would like to build, and ideas…
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December 18, 2017
“Building Victoria (The Intrepid Saga #3)” is not really lesfic, although two of the key women do fall in love and marry.
In “Building Victoria”, the author shows how great a space opera can be, and the narrator shows how great it can be to listen to instead of read! Book 3 is much more multidimensional (in an artistic sense, not a SciFi sense) than Books 1 and 2 of the “Intrepid Saga”.
The first several chapters focus on the romance between Tanis and Joe; theirs is a wonderful love. Readers/listeners are then treated to wonderful detailed descriptions of other worlds. Then, for several chapters, we are immersed in the lives of the Noctus and their efforts to escape virtual enslavement by the Syrians.
The storyline of the Intrepid, diverted to Kapteyn’s Star for repairs before continuing to New Eden, and that of the Noctus, fleeing the Syrians then merge. The mix of personalities, cultures and technologies is handled deftly. The science of moving around a star system is very realistic. At one point, Tanis and Joe must be separated for two years as she embarks on a mission to identify who has surprisingly colonized the star system. Decades pass as the Edeners and the Noctus warily work together toward their separate and mutual goals, and the hand of the supervillian continues to influence the destiny of all.
Jessica mellows from her slutty sex-kitten persona, and she and one of my favorite characters, Trist, become lovers and wives. The banter and interactions between characters continues to become more and more enjoyable.
Bob, the AI for the Intrepid, believes that the near merging of Tanis and Angela has resulted in a “luck factor” that is highly influential in Tanis’ role in the universe, and mentions past efforts to breed people for the “luck factor”. Hmmmm…this part of the storyline sounds lifted directly from Larry Niven’s book “Ringworld”, but it works well here.
“Building Victoria” has more politics and world building than battles, but once the battles begin they are both entertaining and tragic. The descriptions of the technology of armour and weaponry is detailed and gripping. The hand-to-hand battles by marines and the space battles are very well done. I predicted the death of a key character, and I was saddened that my prediction was accurate. I shed tears during the death scene, which is not something I usually do for books. That’s how invested this book made me with the characters.
For people reading “The Intrepid Saga” before “The Orion Wars”, “Building Victoria” ends with quite the cliffhanger, and you’ll want to immediately begin “Destiny Lost”, which is both Book 4 of Intrepid and Book 1 of Orion! For people, like me, who began the Aeon 14 sagas with “Destiny Lost”, it felt like coming full circle….in a very satisfying way.
The author plans a total of 12 books for “The Orion Wars”, and a total of 22 or so book in the extended Aeon 14 sagas. Based on my enjoyment of the four books I’ve listened to so far, I’m excited to continue. But, I am slightly apprehensive about a change of narrator for the just-released audiobook of “New Canaan: Book 2 of the Orion Wars”. Khristine Hvam’s narration of the four books I’ve listened to in the series is much of what made me binge listen, and I’ll use the change of narrator to hit pause on the series and listen to some other things for awhile.
A solid 5* for “Building Victoria”….very highly recommended!
In “Building Victoria”, the author shows how great a space opera can be, and the narrator shows how great it can be to listen to instead of read! Book 3 is much more multidimensional (in an artistic sense, not a SciFi sense) than Books 1 and 2 of the “Intrepid Saga”.
The first several chapters focus on the romance between Tanis and Joe; theirs is a wonderful love. Readers/listeners are then treated to wonderful detailed descriptions of other worlds. Then, for several chapters, we are immersed in the lives of the Noctus and their efforts to escape virtual enslavement by the Syrians.
The storyline of the Intrepid, diverted to Kapteyn’s Star for repairs before continuing to New Eden, and that of the Noctus, fleeing the Syrians then merge. The mix of personalities, cultures and technologies is handled deftly. The science of moving around a star system is very realistic. At one point, Tanis and Joe must be separated for two years as she embarks on a mission to identify who has surprisingly colonized the star system. Decades pass as the Edeners and the Noctus warily work together toward their separate and mutual goals, and the hand of the supervillian continues to influence the destiny of all.
Jessica mellows from her slutty sex-kitten persona, and she and one of my favorite characters, Trist, become lovers and wives. The banter and interactions between characters continues to become more and more enjoyable.
Bob, the AI for the Intrepid, believes that the near merging of Tanis and Angela has resulted in a “luck factor” that is highly influential in Tanis’ role in the universe, and mentions past efforts to breed people for the “luck factor”. Hmmmm…this part of the storyline sounds lifted directly from Larry Niven’s book “Ringworld”, but it works well here.
“Building Victoria” has more politics and world building than battles, but once the battles begin they are both entertaining and tragic. The descriptions of the technology of armour and weaponry is detailed and gripping. The hand-to-hand battles by marines and the space battles are very well done. I predicted the death of a key character, and I was saddened that my prediction was accurate. I shed tears during the death scene, which is not something I usually do for books. That’s how invested this book made me with the characters.
For people reading “The Intrepid Saga” before “The Orion Wars”, “Building Victoria” ends with quite the cliffhanger, and you’ll want to immediately begin “Destiny Lost”, which is both Book 4 of Intrepid and Book 1 of Orion! For people, like me, who began the Aeon 14 sagas with “Destiny Lost”, it felt like coming full circle….in a very satisfying way.
The author plans a total of 12 books for “The Orion Wars”, and a total of 22 or so book in the extended Aeon 14 sagas. Based on my enjoyment of the four books I’ve listened to so far, I’m excited to continue. But, I am slightly apprehensive about a change of narrator for the just-released audiobook of “New Canaan: Book 2 of the Orion Wars”. Khristine Hvam’s narration of the four books I’ve listened to in the series is much of what made me binge listen, and I’ll use the change of narrator to hit pause on the series and listen to some other things for awhile.
A solid 5* for “Building Victoria”….very highly recommended!
February 9, 2017
In Book Three of the Intrepid Saga, the Colony ship Intrepid aides a group of fugitive miners from the Sirius system who are escaping oppression. They wish to settle on Victoria, a world located near a red star. General Tanis Richards is on the Intrepid, and while she’s aware of a traitor in their midst, she agrees to help the runaways. But will these people be willing to cohabitate the settlement while Intrepid makes repairs? They strike a deal, and Tanis gets rid of the enemy ships. Now she only has to fight dissension, betrayal, and more battles. Can she and her heartthrob Joe find peace together? It doesn’t look that way in the startling conclusion. This fast-paced tale will keep you reading as one conflict after another erupts to constantly challenge our heroes.
April 9, 2018
I love this series! I started reading it at the recommendation of a friend. During the course of a month, I binge read the entire series that was available including the Perseus Gate side series. With apologies to Mr Cooper, binge reading makes for difficult reviews as the story of individual novels blur together. I’m now re-reading the entire series and reviewing each before I start the next.
This is the second novel in the Tanis Richards story arc (main story arc), IF you count Destiny Rising (collection of the first two novels plus additional pages) as the first novel.
Brief summary – After the sabotage of the Intrepid, the crew limps into a system intending to setup shop and make repairs. They find refugees making a desperate but losing attempt to flee their attackers and the Intrepid steps in. In the years that follow, a colony is created for both the refugees as well as the colonists of the Intrepid. Turmoil comes from both within via Myrrdan, the Victorian colonists, and externally from the Luminescents (the attackers). This novel sees the first use of picotech.
Pros:
• Strong heroine who makes mistakes and lives up to them. Tanis steps into new ground needing to be governor of a colony as well as the military leader of the Intrepid.
• Action. This is an action packed story with some drama influences.
• Technology. I especially enjoyed the descriptions of the process of entering a Shute Suit….a flight suit that allows fighter pilots to survive the intense forces pressing against them during maneuvers in space.
• Humor. The friendly banter between friends is captured and interaction between Tanis and her AI is especially humorous.
Cons:
• Technology – Admittedly I’m a believer and I understand the concept behind the technology. For someone not into Sci-Fi it’s easy to see how technology is used to as a magic device to make the plot keep moving.
This is the second novel in the Tanis Richards story arc (main story arc), IF you count Destiny Rising (collection of the first two novels plus additional pages) as the first novel.
Brief summary – After the sabotage of the Intrepid, the crew limps into a system intending to setup shop and make repairs. They find refugees making a desperate but losing attempt to flee their attackers and the Intrepid steps in. In the years that follow, a colony is created for both the refugees as well as the colonists of the Intrepid. Turmoil comes from both within via Myrrdan, the Victorian colonists, and externally from the Luminescents (the attackers). This novel sees the first use of picotech.
Pros:
• Strong heroine who makes mistakes and lives up to them. Tanis steps into new ground needing to be governor of a colony as well as the military leader of the Intrepid.
• Action. This is an action packed story with some drama influences.
• Technology. I especially enjoyed the descriptions of the process of entering a Shute Suit….a flight suit that allows fighter pilots to survive the intense forces pressing against them during maneuvers in space.
• Humor. The friendly banter between friends is captured and interaction between Tanis and her AI is especially humorous.
Cons:
• Technology – Admittedly I’m a believer and I understand the concept behind the technology. For someone not into Sci-Fi it’s easy to see how technology is used to as a magic device to make the plot keep moving.
January 11, 2017
Entertaining with an irritating flaw in physics
I enjoyed the first books in this series and look forward to more. However, Mr. Cooper makes a common mistake in physics confusing centripetal force for centrifugal force.
Centrifugal force (Latin for "center fleeing") describes the tendency of an object following a curved path to fly outwards, away from the center of the curve. It's not really a force; it results from inertia — the tendency of an object to resist any change in its state of rest or motion. Centripetal force is a real force that counteracts the centrifugal force and prevents the object from "flying out," keeping it moving instead with a uniform speed along a circular path.
Centrifugal force is what makes "artificial gravity" on the inner surface of a rotating ring such as the habitats in the stories because objects are trying to fly outward and are pressed against the inner surface.
Centripetal force is trying to pull an object inward call it gravity, but if the object's forward velocity is at just the right velocity it never falls all the way inward but continues on a curved path around the center, e.g. a satellite in orbit around a planet. Of course if the object's velocity is high enough, it reaches "escape velocity" and flies away into space.
I enjoyed the first books in this series and look forward to more. However, Mr. Cooper makes a common mistake in physics confusing centripetal force for centrifugal force.
Centrifugal force (Latin for "center fleeing") describes the tendency of an object following a curved path to fly outwards, away from the center of the curve. It's not really a force; it results from inertia — the tendency of an object to resist any change in its state of rest or motion. Centripetal force is a real force that counteracts the centrifugal force and prevents the object from "flying out," keeping it moving instead with a uniform speed along a circular path.
Centrifugal force is what makes "artificial gravity" on the inner surface of a rotating ring such as the habitats in the stories because objects are trying to fly outward and are pressed against the inner surface.
Centripetal force is trying to pull an object inward call it gravity, but if the object's forward velocity is at just the right velocity it never falls all the way inward but continues on a curved path around the center, e.g. a satellite in orbit around a planet. Of course if the object's velocity is high enough, it reaches "escape velocity" and flies away into space.
August 9, 2022
Get ready to do some aging! Well, not you personally, but the characters in this book are going to move along pretty rapidly. Not sure if I would like all these life rejuvenations they get to extend their lives for hundreds of years, but that's the age and technology level that we find aboard the Intrepid.
After having survived the harrowing conditions they found themselves while falling towards the LHS 1565 star, the Intrepid is finally back on mission, although the current mission has slightly changed. Knowing that the Intrepid has to have some major repairs, the command crew decided they would have to stop in Kapteyn's Star system for, say, oh about 100 years! Yeah, a 100 year delay in their mission is just something all these people readily accept! Except, the majority of them will be in cryostasis and won't even know the time is passing. Bob, the ships super intelligent AI will run things during the long journey to Kapteyn's Star and if everything works like it should and there a no more problems, then everyone in stasis should awake ready to get the ship fixed in their new temporary star system.
But, you do remember that Myrrdan wasn't located during the last book. While he is the known cause of all their current problems, nothing on this vast ship can pin him or her down. So, either Myrrdan is hiding in plane sight as one of the crew or he/she has its own cryopod and is sleeping along with the rest of the crew.That's what Tanis Richards, now General Richards hopes. She still doesn't know what Myrrdan is up to but is fully believes that it has something to do with the picotech. The plans for that technology are aboard the Intrepid, but won't be developed until they reach a system that provides the resources and time needed to fully develop this new technology. Tanis has an uneasy feeling that Myrrdan might show up just as they get settled in Kapteyn's Star system. She hopes to catch this enemy there and stop all the trouble he/she has caused.
Now, break away from this story line and go to the Sirius binary star system. It's about 8.6 light years from the Solar System and is fully inhabited. The primary governance in this system is the Sirius Hegemony ran by the Lumins. They are an aristocratic society of the entitled. They have built their superior culture on the backs of the Noctus. The Noctus was the working class and they lived on floating mining platforms mining various minerals for the Lumins while reaping very little benefit. They were in effect slave labor barley manage enough to get buy, but they were used to their situation in life and most just put up with it. Oh, they had tried to rebel a few times in the past with one mining platform going rogue for awhile. But, it always ended the same way. The miners had no way of defending their platforms and not internal military so what uprising they made was quickly squelched by the Lumin military by either capturing the leaders of the uprising or simply destroying the platform.
Then one platform leader, Markus decided he and his people had had enough. They had implemented plans to breakout of the Sirius system while making the Lumins believe they were just upgrading the platforms mining capabilities. When they made their move, the Lumins were caught completely surprised. It took them awhile to setup a significant pursuit, but pursue they did because the President of the Lumin's daughter just happened to be on the platform, now named the Hyperion, and he wanted her back. Unknown to him, though, his daughter was one of the primary reasons these Noctus were able to make their escape. So, the Hyperion was now headed for, you guessed it, Kapteyn's Star. It would take them about 40 to 50 years to reach what they hoped would be their new home.
Back aboard the Intrepid, Bob the AI was getting worried that something was going to go wrong on their long voyage to Kapteyn's Star. So he woke Tanis and ask/told her that he was going to awake her every so often so she could just "check things out" and make sure Bob wasn't missing something. All the other colonist and ship's crew would remain in stasis for the voyage. But Tanis knew that she couldn't be the only awake human on this vast ship for months at a time so she told Bob he was going to have to wake Joe when she was awake. That worked for both of them. They soon fell deeper in love and spent the next 50 or more years enjoying themselves all along on this gigantic colony ship. They didn't mind.
Then they arrived near Kapteyn's Star. While they knew it wasn't inhabited, it had been surveyed. So they mostly knew what was there. it had sufficient resources that the Intrepid could use to fix most all of the ship, but it word require awaking most all of the people including a lot of the colonist.
Then they saw something heading into the Kapteyn's Star system. Unknown the them, it was the Hyperion, but surprisingly it had something still in pursuit and they didn't look friendly. So, Tanis was sent out on a scouting mission to find out who these people were and why they were coming to this empty star system in a floating mining station? Once Tanis gets the answers to these questions, a whole new mission grows up and this begins the building of Victoria, a new colony that may or not be the permanent home of two different groups of people.
So, there is a lot going on in this book. We get to meet a lot of new characters and see two different story lines merge together. This doesn't happen in just a few days. No, as I wrote, Tanis and Joe spend over 50 years just living by themselves in one of the earth-like habitats aboard the Intrepid. That apparently is just a drop in the bucket for their now normal live span. And, as you'll remember, they expected to have to stay in the Kapteyn's Star system for at least 100 years. All those on the ship now expect to still be alive and very healthy at the end of that time. Man, what a crazy experience that would be.
Sadly, this appears to be the end of The Intrepid Saga. Still, something happens at the very end of this book and the author follows up with information that more stories are coming involving the crew of the Intrepid. I might look for them, but I've got a lot already on my reading list.
After having survived the harrowing conditions they found themselves while falling towards the LHS 1565 star, the Intrepid is finally back on mission, although the current mission has slightly changed. Knowing that the Intrepid has to have some major repairs, the command crew decided they would have to stop in Kapteyn's Star system for, say, oh about 100 years! Yeah, a 100 year delay in their mission is just something all these people readily accept! Except, the majority of them will be in cryostasis and won't even know the time is passing. Bob, the ships super intelligent AI will run things during the long journey to Kapteyn's Star and if everything works like it should and there a no more problems, then everyone in stasis should awake ready to get the ship fixed in their new temporary star system.
But, you do remember that Myrrdan wasn't located during the last book. While he is the known cause of all their current problems, nothing on this vast ship can pin him or her down. So, either Myrrdan is hiding in plane sight as one of the crew or he/she has its own cryopod and is sleeping along with the rest of the crew.That's what Tanis Richards, now General Richards hopes. She still doesn't know what Myrrdan is up to but is fully believes that it has something to do with the picotech. The plans for that technology are aboard the Intrepid, but won't be developed until they reach a system that provides the resources and time needed to fully develop this new technology. Tanis has an uneasy feeling that Myrrdan might show up just as they get settled in Kapteyn's Star system. She hopes to catch this enemy there and stop all the trouble he/she has caused.
Now, break away from this story line and go to the Sirius binary star system. It's about 8.6 light years from the Solar System and is fully inhabited. The primary governance in this system is the Sirius Hegemony ran by the Lumins. They are an aristocratic society of the entitled. They have built their superior culture on the backs of the Noctus. The Noctus was the working class and they lived on floating mining platforms mining various minerals for the Lumins while reaping very little benefit. They were in effect slave labor barley manage enough to get buy, but they were used to their situation in life and most just put up with it. Oh, they had tried to rebel a few times in the past with one mining platform going rogue for awhile. But, it always ended the same way. The miners had no way of defending their platforms and not internal military so what uprising they made was quickly squelched by the Lumin military by either capturing the leaders of the uprising or simply destroying the platform.
Then one platform leader, Markus decided he and his people had had enough. They had implemented plans to breakout of the Sirius system while making the Lumins believe they were just upgrading the platforms mining capabilities. When they made their move, the Lumins were caught completely surprised. It took them awhile to setup a significant pursuit, but pursue they did because the President of the Lumin's daughter just happened to be on the platform, now named the Hyperion, and he wanted her back. Unknown to him, though, his daughter was one of the primary reasons these Noctus were able to make their escape. So, the Hyperion was now headed for, you guessed it, Kapteyn's Star. It would take them about 40 to 50 years to reach what they hoped would be their new home.
Back aboard the Intrepid, Bob the AI was getting worried that something was going to go wrong on their long voyage to Kapteyn's Star. So he woke Tanis and ask/told her that he was going to awake her every so often so she could just "check things out" and make sure Bob wasn't missing something. All the other colonist and ship's crew would remain in stasis for the voyage. But Tanis knew that she couldn't be the only awake human on this vast ship for months at a time so she told Bob he was going to have to wake Joe when she was awake. That worked for both of them. They soon fell deeper in love and spent the next 50 or more years enjoying themselves all along on this gigantic colony ship. They didn't mind.
Then they arrived near Kapteyn's Star. While they knew it wasn't inhabited, it had been surveyed. So they mostly knew what was there. it had sufficient resources that the Intrepid could use to fix most all of the ship, but it word require awaking most all of the people including a lot of the colonist.
Then they saw something heading into the Kapteyn's Star system. Unknown the them, it was the Hyperion, but surprisingly it had something still in pursuit and they didn't look friendly. So, Tanis was sent out on a scouting mission to find out who these people were and why they were coming to this empty star system in a floating mining station? Once Tanis gets the answers to these questions, a whole new mission grows up and this begins the building of Victoria, a new colony that may or not be the permanent home of two different groups of people.
So, there is a lot going on in this book. We get to meet a lot of new characters and see two different story lines merge together. This doesn't happen in just a few days. No, as I wrote, Tanis and Joe spend over 50 years just living by themselves in one of the earth-like habitats aboard the Intrepid. That apparently is just a drop in the bucket for their now normal live span. And, as you'll remember, they expected to have to stay in the Kapteyn's Star system for at least 100 years. All those on the ship now expect to still be alive and very healthy at the end of that time. Man, what a crazy experience that would be.
Sadly, this appears to be the end of The Intrepid Saga. Still, something happens at the very end of this book and the author follows up with information that more stories are coming involving the crew of the Intrepid. I might look for them, but I've got a lot already on my reading list.
December 30, 2017
After the previous books the action heats up as our tired colonists find themselves finding common ground with escaped workers from Sirius space.
Soon battle is joined as Tanis is forced to put their mission at jeopardy to save them.
In the resultant aftermath they soon find common ground in building a colony together , friends found at last ?.
With building tensions from an younger generation helped along by the ever present manipulations from the shadowy figure haunting the ISS Intrepid is Myrrdan.
The pace picks up and the excitement is soon contagious as you read this , M Cooper is excellent with the technical and emotional ties to this book and it shows to the reader a lot.
Best Book from the Intrepid saga
Soon battle is joined as Tanis is forced to put their mission at jeopardy to save them.
In the resultant aftermath they soon find common ground in building a colony together , friends found at last ?.
With building tensions from an younger generation helped along by the ever present manipulations from the shadowy figure haunting the ISS Intrepid is Myrrdan.
The pace picks up and the excitement is soon contagious as you read this , M Cooper is excellent with the technical and emotional ties to this book and it shows to the reader a lot.
Best Book from the Intrepid saga
June 24, 2020
This was a bit of a disappointment all around. A couple of mysteries have been building up, but the reveals were anti-climatic. (One good thing was the hidden identity of the villain wasn't the crew member I thought it would have been most dramatic, and hackneyed, to turn out to be.) Not much excitement in the space battles, either.
The ending really seemed tacked on just to lead us into the next Tanis Richards series. Not sure if I'm invested enough in the character or the cliffhanger ending to pursue any more.
The ending really seemed tacked on just to lead us into the next Tanis Richards series. Not sure if I'm invested enough in the character or the cliffhanger ending to pursue any more.
July 16, 2021
Another great book in the series. I didn't enjoy it as much as the first two, but still an excellent addition. A crew escapes pretty much slavery from a terraformed area near Sirius, and the intrepid finds others seeking the same planet as them. They form an Alliance that doesn't end up being fully stable.
This one jumps around a lot. A lot of time shifting and years later. Some areas I wish had been prolonged to see more details of the terraforming and bond between people, but overall, an excellent addition.
This one jumps around a lot. A lot of time shifting and years later. Some areas I wish had been prolonged to see more details of the terraforming and bond between people, but overall, an excellent addition.
September 5, 2017
Still like a Stephanie Plumm goes to space and Bob (the ship AI) identified it for me, "luck". I'm glad they didn't dwell on on the century long voyage where our hero is awoken from cryosleep every couple months to check the ship, and our side story, Victoria, was interesting and entertaining. Only problem is that if humans cant grow up and cooperate any better than in this book (and real life) the chances of making it to the stars is pretty slim...
May 1, 2019
This is a decent book. The series has been an interesting read so far. If you like military science fiction then this is a good one to pick up. The author spends a lot of time on character development. So even though the book has some action packed parts the majority is about the characters and their lives. I enjoyed it over all but I wouldn’t put it in my top ten favorites. Still it is worth a read.
May 21, 2020
Tanis Richards is acting Lt. Governor and acting General on Intrepid. They are detouring to Kaptayn's Star or repairs, before concurring to New Eden where their colony is to be established.
Markus ls the lead for a mining platform of Noctus who are subject to the Lumin. Markus and his people are attempting to steal their own platform to escape Lumin control. They end up at Kaptayn's Star at the same time Intrepid nears the same area.
Markus ls the lead for a mining platform of Noctus who are subject to the Lumin. Markus and his people are attempting to steal their own platform to escape Lumin control. They end up at Kaptayn's Star at the same time Intrepid nears the same area.
September 23, 2021
I thought this one was an improvement over the previous books. It's more cohesive even as there are large skips through time. Jessica might as well be a different character, she's so much better. Some of the antagonists are a little one-note and the Moriarty-like villain encounter is mostly a bit anticlimactic in the end but overall the characterizations are better.
January 24, 2022
Great read.
I am thoroughly enjoying this series of books. The story is absolutely riveting.
I have a criticism regarding the author's lack of decent proofreaders.
Someone should learn to spell. The errors that I noticed were flare/flair, discrete/discreet and compliment/complement.
I am thoroughly enjoying this series of books. The story is absolutely riveting.
I have a criticism regarding the author's lack of decent proofreaders.
Someone should learn to spell. The errors that I noticed were flare/flair, discrete/discreet and compliment/complement.
September 18, 2024
The End of The Saga???
Overall, a fast moving conclusion(??) to the Intrepid saga. However it does have its slow moments that seem to be review of some details from the previous books.
That said we see a dramatic conclusion to this part of the Intrepid journey, only to be left with one hell of a cliff hanger!
Overall, a fast moving conclusion(??) to the Intrepid saga. However it does have its slow moments that seem to be review of some details from the previous books.
That said we see a dramatic conclusion to this part of the Intrepid journey, only to be left with one hell of a cliff hanger!
June 8, 2017
The truth is revealed
But not without a lot of damage along the way. Bob says the glass is always full. I say they need a new glass. Life shouldn't be that exciting.
Going to buy the next series. Yes, the whole trilogy. I am enjoying this clusterflock.
But not without a lot of damage along the way. Bob says the glass is always full. I say they need a new glass. Life shouldn't be that exciting.
Going to buy the next series. Yes, the whole trilogy. I am enjoying this clusterflock.
December 5, 2016
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This is a great book. I like all of his books. I have read all of his books several times and have always enjoyed them.
This is a great book. I like all of his books. I have read all of his books several times and have always enjoyed them.
May 5, 2017
Tanis and the Intrepid work with a group that have escaped from enslavement to build a colony and repair the Intrepid. An interesting story with very good characters.
May 24, 2017
Better than the 2nd one.
September 29, 2017
Good Book
It's been a while since I read the first books in the series, but it all came back as I read this one.
Interesting story line and lots of details made this a good one.
It's been a while since I read the first books in the series, but it all came back as I read this one.
Interesting story line and lots of details made this a good one.
October 13, 2017
This series is an awesome example of being patient only to have to be patient again!! Ha, I loved every minute of it
December 8, 2017
Ummm... cliffhanger ending? Did I hear that right? :-(
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April 21, 2018
This explains a lot...
Started with the Orion War series. Then went back to the beginning...great story line. Looking forward to reading them all!!
Started with the Orion War series. Then went back to the beginning...great story line. Looking forward to reading them all!!
May 24, 2018
Well thought out book with intriguing, developed characters. M.D. Cooper is a great story teller and he has me hooked. I keep coming back for more of his stories.
September 30, 2018
3.5 stars. OK sequel, but the story covered 100+ years of time and correspondingly seemed somewhat superficial at times. On fence about reading a further sequel
December 15, 2018
Some of the characters suffer in characterization, the time jumps are offputting, and the motivations of many characters are absent.
August 11, 2019
Twists and turns
Tania Joe Jessica and poor twist my heart was breaking as the adventure took a bad turn then losing Tania to a couple of pirates
Tania Joe Jessica and poor twist my heart was breaking as the adventure took a bad turn then losing Tania to a couple of pirates
May 29, 2021
anti-climactic
January 6, 2022
Good final book in the trilogy
Another cliff hanger and another series to start. This one did tie up the main story arc from the 2nd book.
Another cliff hanger and another series to start. This one did tie up the main story arc from the 2nd book.
May 5, 2024
Still reading
November 9, 2024
I think I am going to stop after this book though it clearly carries on into many more. Just not doing it for me.
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