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Broken Galaxy: Broken Galaxy Book One
Wow. Loved this book. This book is an escape...a fabulous, very entertaining escape. I could hardly put it down." - Amazon Reviewer.
Jim Carter is a PTSD-riddled former Marine with a he has a broken-down, sentient starship hidden in his airplane hangar. He expected to get found out, of course. Eventually. But by a hot-as-blazes female test pilot? When love finds Jim at last, it hits him big-time. For a change, things are breaking his way.
But Jim and Bonnie’s new love affair gets complicated when the sentient starship decides to create a clone to help Rita - a beautiful woman with the knowledge, emotions and feelings of both Jim and Bonnie embedded in her brain, and madly in love with both of them.
Suddenly the three are confronted by the worst scenario everybody wants the starship, including the Americans, the Russians, the Chinese, and the Singheko - alien slavers coming for Humanity.
Before Jim knows what’s happening, he is captured and tortured for the secrets of the starship, while Bonnie and Rita escape to Mars to decide what to do next. But one thing they do know – somehow, they have to fight off the Singheko, rescue Jim, and fly the starship to the nearest friendly star nation to seek help for Earth.
And the stakes if they fail? Not much - just the enslavement of Earth!
Jim Carter is a PTSD-riddled former Marine with a he has a broken-down, sentient starship hidden in his airplane hangar. He expected to get found out, of course. Eventually. But by a hot-as-blazes female test pilot? When love finds Jim at last, it hits him big-time. For a change, things are breaking his way.
But Jim and Bonnie’s new love affair gets complicated when the sentient starship decides to create a clone to help Rita - a beautiful woman with the knowledge, emotions and feelings of both Jim and Bonnie embedded in her brain, and madly in love with both of them.
Suddenly the three are confronted by the worst scenario everybody wants the starship, including the Americans, the Russians, the Chinese, and the Singheko - alien slavers coming for Humanity.
Before Jim knows what’s happening, he is captured and tortured for the secrets of the starship, while Bonnie and Rita escape to Mars to decide what to do next. But one thing they do know – somehow, they have to fight off the Singheko, rescue Jim, and fly the starship to the nearest friendly star nation to seek help for Earth.
And the stakes if they fail? Not much - just the enslavement of Earth!
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277 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 5, 2020
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March 17, 2021
Fast Start, Then Slow Decline
The preview generated enough interest to pull me in and for a while everything was good. Then the plot began to devolve, we learn that the players are not who we think they are, and as the story devolves, it goes from believable to unbelievable fiction fairly rapidly. The last 30% is a mish-mash of pointless slaughter, military excess and bad action scenes. By the end, I no longer cared about any of the remaining characters.
The preview generated enough interest to pull me in and for a while everything was good. Then the plot began to devolve, we learn that the players are not who we think they are, and as the story devolves, it goes from believable to unbelievable fiction fairly rapidly. The last 30% is a mish-mash of pointless slaughter, military excess and bad action scenes. By the end, I no longer cared about any of the remaining characters.
August 17, 2023
Five star space opera for sure
Reminiscent of Mutineers Moon, a damaged alien starship's AI helps a wounded pilot and in turn the pilot helps the AI to repair the ship. The pilot learns that a hostile species would love to invade earth for destruction and slavery. Of course no battle plan survives contact with the enemy. Allies are made, friends turn into advesaries, advesaries become saviors as nations fight to capture technology. Subterfuge, spy networks, torture, betrayal and true love too.
An excellent story that I stayed up into the wee hours of the morning to finish. It was interesting that the enemy AI didnt have the creativity to put a deadman switch into what could have been a game changing asset. Im being circumspect in order to avoid spoiling the story. I really enjoyed reading this and will certainly be continuing the series as well as looking for additional works by the author.
Reminiscent of Mutineers Moon, a damaged alien starship's AI helps a wounded pilot and in turn the pilot helps the AI to repair the ship. The pilot learns that a hostile species would love to invade earth for destruction and slavery. Of course no battle plan survives contact with the enemy. Allies are made, friends turn into advesaries, advesaries become saviors as nations fight to capture technology. Subterfuge, spy networks, torture, betrayal and true love too.
An excellent story that I stayed up into the wee hours of the morning to finish. It was interesting that the enemy AI didnt have the creativity to put a deadman switch into what could have been a game changing asset. Im being circumspect in order to avoid spoiling the story. I really enjoyed reading this and will certainly be continuing the series as well as looking for additional works by the author.
January 12, 2026
Interesting (No spoilers)
Having read to the end, I find myself somewhat disappointed. The premise and beginning are fairly typical "found starship" stuff but then as you get further in, some interesting wrinkles arise leading to an unusual conclusion.
What I don't like are the characters. Although well drawn, they do at times stretch belief. The treatment of them is also rather too gynocentric for my taste. All the male characters are "useful idiots" and show creative, intuitive thinking..... until a female comes along. Then, suddenly all creativity shifts to them. The males suddenly become hidebound, stiff thinkers.
Sad really, I was hoping for strong characters, both male and female working together to achieve their aims but am very disappointed.
I read the first book, but don't think I'll continue the series because, yet again, modern anti-male propaganda raises it's head.
Having read to the end, I find myself somewhat disappointed. The premise and beginning are fairly typical "found starship" stuff but then as you get further in, some interesting wrinkles arise leading to an unusual conclusion.
What I don't like are the characters. Although well drawn, they do at times stretch belief. The treatment of them is also rather too gynocentric for my taste. All the male characters are "useful idiots" and show creative, intuitive thinking..... until a female comes along. Then, suddenly all creativity shifts to them. The males suddenly become hidebound, stiff thinkers.
Sad really, I was hoping for strong characters, both male and female working together to achieve their aims but am very disappointed.
I read the first book, but don't think I'll continue the series because, yet again, modern anti-male propaganda raises it's head.
May 19, 2024
Mok's review
I paused this book 27 pages in to comment that the main character is another mildly retarded Simp. Who would happily castrate himself and hand them to a pretty woman who smiles at him with a cute smile and then wonder why he can no longer have sex.
I am growing tired of obviously simp retarded main characters. When I read the exirt of this book and got the basic story, it mentioned that he wounds up getting captured and tortured by the government. The only reason I'm still reading this book is because I actually want to see the main character get captured and tortured. After all, from most people who actually have 2 brain cells to rub together, he actually deserves it for being this f****** stupid.
I paused this book 27 pages in to comment that the main character is another mildly retarded Simp. Who would happily castrate himself and hand them to a pretty woman who smiles at him with a cute smile and then wonder why he can no longer have sex.
I am growing tired of obviously simp retarded main characters. When I read the exirt of this book and got the basic story, it mentioned that he wounds up getting captured and tortured by the government. The only reason I'm still reading this book is because I actually want to see the main character get captured and tortured. After all, from most people who actually have 2 brain cells to rub together, he actually deserves it for being this f****** stupid.
August 4, 2025
I am considering giving up tbh. The Web of relationships is so dumb. Long story short(ish). The MC falls in love with Bonnie after finding a crashed starship. The ships AI makes a female clone for ... reasons. The clone (Rita) has a mix of Bonnie's and the MC's memories, so is in love with both of them(?). Bonnie is convinced Rita is soulless, subhuman abomination. 5 seconds later ( with the MC in the general vicinity), Bonnie and Rita are bumping uglies because of the Plot. The MC is apparently fine with this....Much later on, the MC knocks Rita up , Rita and Bonnie eff off to space while he's in a Coma. They return for Plot reasons, and Bonnie forces him to choose because despite shagging Rita cross eyed for months she wants the MC to herself....
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March 24, 2024
Pure escapism. Which can be great, average or terrible. This falls right in the middle. Plenty of action, much of it implausible and a bit silly, but still fun.
The biggest issue I have with this book (and others from the author) is how often the main female characters jump into bed (and “fall in love”) with the men almost immediately after meeting them.
Even when the man involved may have a complete dirt bag right before.
I realise this is science fiction, but that really is ridiculous and unnecessary.
The biggest issue I have with this book (and others from the author) is how often the main female characters jump into bed (and “fall in love”) with the men almost immediately after meeting them.
Even when the man involved may have a complete dirt bag right before.
I realise this is science fiction, but that really is ridiculous and unnecessary.
December 31, 2023
A former marine finds a broken starship. Then meets the love of his life. Then the starship makes a human woman. And an android. Then the Russians are searching for the starship. And the Americans. And the Chinese. And an alien slaver race. Then the love gets kidnapped by the alien slavers. Then the woman the starship made gets pregnant. The the marine gets kidnapped and tortured. Then the two women stay on an alien spaceship because of reasons.
This book was very busy. There was a lot of plot arcs happening one after the other, with only one main arc - kinda. I think this book would have benefitted from cutting some points, and allowing the remaining plots more space (not a pun) to develop and the reader to get familiar with the characters - I had actually forgotten about Andy the Android, despite the stellar name
This book was very busy. There was a lot of plot arcs happening one after the other, with only one main arc - kinda. I think this book would have benefitted from cutting some points, and allowing the remaining plots more space (not a pun) to develop and the reader to get familiar with the characters - I had actually forgotten about Andy the Android, despite the stellar name
November 7, 2021
Broken Galaxy
I chose this rating because this book held my interest hard enough that I read the book in one sitting. The characters were real with real emotions. The action was nonstop, even in dialog sections. I have never enjoyed a book as much as I enjoyed this one. Now I am going after book two.
I chose this rating because this book held my interest hard enough that I read the book in one sitting. The characters were real with real emotions. The action was nonstop, even in dialog sections. I have never enjoyed a book as much as I enjoyed this one. Now I am going after book two.
December 12, 2022
Decent start from metal viewpoint
Tough to judge as this has a lot of threads that it needs to put in place before this equal can start. Overall, not too bad and it has some very nice echoes of one of my favorite games in fallout 3. Not sure how it's going to play out with the various relationship details, and I hope it goes well.
Tough to judge as this has a lot of threads that it needs to put in place before this equal can start. Overall, not too bad and it has some very nice echoes of one of my favorite games in fallout 3. Not sure how it's going to play out with the various relationship details, and I hope it goes well.
January 28, 2025
Fantastic characters and sentient AI
I really enjoyed the moral complications of mental and physical cloning. A bit short for my liking but certainly sucks you into wanting to read the next in the series, which I look forward to. More detail in the ‘advanced alien technology’ would also be interesting.
I really enjoyed the moral complications of mental and physical cloning. A bit short for my liking but certainly sucks you into wanting to read the next in the series, which I look forward to. More detail in the ‘advanced alien technology’ would also be interesting.
December 14, 2021
Much better than expected. really good plot twist in the last 25%. Doesn't take anything away from the book but I think the author underestimates the professional competence of our military particularly the average pilot.
December 17, 2023
looks like a good story line!
This the first book by Phil Huddleston that I have read, and I enjoyed the plot and characters. I’m about to start the second book in the series, so I will post another review then!
This the first book by Phil Huddleston that I have read, and I enjoyed the plot and characters. I’m about to start the second book in the series, so I will post another review then!
August 9, 2020
I read this after picking up the 2nd in the series as I really enjoyed it.
Military sci-fi set in current time period, written as though for an action movie.
Military sci-fi set in current time period, written as though for an action movie.
October 1, 2020
Good Syfy read
Enjoyed the characters and action. Glad to see the battle scenes were solid without dominating the story line. Look forward to next installment
Enjoyed the characters and action. Glad to see the battle scenes were solid without dominating the story line. Look forward to next installment
July 18, 2021
Good read
I enjoyed reading this book very much and I recommend it to anyone who likes space opera and action type of books.
I enjoyed reading this book very much and I recommend it to anyone who likes space opera and action type of books.
April 13, 2022
good read
It was a good read interesting different take on first contact her or
Give it a try will like it
It was a good read interesting different take on first contact her or
Give it a try will like it
May 29, 2022
Skipped most.
The idea isn't bad, but the characters keep doing g stupid things to add tension and suspense, which doesn't happen because you are frustrated with the stupidity.
The idea isn't bad, but the characters keep doing g stupid things to add tension and suspense, which doesn't happen because you are frustrated with the stupidity.
March 5, 2023
Different
I found this to be both engaging and original. Some of that "Ok, I didn't see that coming".
Good book and I applaud the tempo and story.
I found this to be both engaging and original. Some of that "Ok, I didn't see that coming".
Good book and I applaud the tempo and story.
June 16, 2025
Great read.
This is a fine start to a good sci-fi series. Imaginative story line and fair charactor development. I recommend reading them. David Schlosser
This is a fine start to a good sci-fi series. Imaginative story line and fair charactor development. I recommend reading them. David Schlosser
March 26, 2025
Fantastic book. I go for space operas and this one did not disappoint. Looking forward to starting the next one.
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