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The Last Hunter #5
Command Authority
Victory snatched from the jaws of defeat.
Commodore Jack Romanoff and his ragtag crew have repaired their ancient battleship, scattered
their adversaries at New Copenhagen, and discovered what was really behind the invasion. Now
they must make the enemy bleed and start liberating the cluster.
Betrayal from the shadows.
When unexpected foes strike, Jack must fight to keep his ship and crew united and alive. If he
fails, someone that should have had his back will stick a knife into it, and the aliens will enslave
or exterminate them all.
Honor or victory? Can he have both, or will darkness claim them all?
Commodore Jack Romanoff and his ragtag crew have repaired their ancient battleship, scattered
their adversaries at New Copenhagen, and discovered what was really behind the invasion. Now
they must make the enemy bleed and start liberating the cluster.
Betrayal from the shadows.
When unexpected foes strike, Jack must fight to keep his ship and crew united and alive. If he
fails, someone that should have had his back will stick a knife into it, and the aliens will enslave
or exterminate them all.
Honor or victory? Can he have both, or will darkness claim them all?
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First published October 23, 2022
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May 14, 2023
The Crisis To Humanity Continues🚀💫
War in Space 💥🚀💫
The asteroid warship Hunter🚀 takes a massive hit💥 and survives. The violent aliens👽 who are the root cause of the invasion of human space🌏 are discovered and some are captured. What makes them tick?
Capturing prisoners👽, their ships technology , and hacking their computer systems becomes a priority for Commodore Jack Romanoff🐺🔫🗡💪 and his crew of Patriots.
I got this ebook from Amazon with Kindle Unlimited.
I liked this fast paced, action filled novel better than the previous one. Of course this latest installment in this series ends in a cliffhanger, which I hate. Luckily the books are free with Kindle Unlimited.
On to book six and the political war that is coming.
I am disappointed in the way the war is being conducted by Jack. There is no voting or consensus in war. Its them or us. Period.
War in Space 💥🚀💫
The asteroid warship Hunter🚀 takes a massive hit💥 and survives. The violent aliens👽 who are the root cause of the invasion of human space🌏 are discovered and some are captured. What makes them tick?
Capturing prisoners👽, their ships technology , and hacking their computer systems becomes a priority for Commodore Jack Romanoff🐺🔫🗡💪 and his crew of Patriots.
I got this ebook from Amazon with Kindle Unlimited.
I liked this fast paced, action filled novel better than the previous one. Of course this latest installment in this series ends in a cliffhanger, which I hate. Luckily the books are free with Kindle Unlimited.
On to book six and the political war that is coming.
I am disappointed in the way the war is being conducted by Jack. There is no voting or consensus in war. Its them or us. Period.
February 27, 2024
Not a bad one. Always talky but great main plot.
October 28, 2022
Clumsy, Inconsistent but if you like meddling kids and Scooby-Doo
I admit that I liked the show and movies….mostly. But it doesn’t work very well in what I thought was to be a ‘serious’ SciFi Mil. What’s not to love about activating a relic battleship as humanity’s only chance to survive an alien invasion. And it’s crewed by re-enactors, non-graduate Academy gamers, just plain gamers, a clueless Ship CO(who’s also the MC) and a host of enlightened crew that moralize over anything related to mankind’s passion with war.
I didn’t expect to get schooled as to how to conduct and fight a war…and ensuring your side is morally right throughout. Despite a heinous alien enemy but with some not being so bad…hoping to align the reader along their(authors) agenda. I guess the lawyer MC’s purpose was to help sell, and make credible, the progressive enlightened agenda of how to fight a moral and humane war properly.
No credible Mil, leadership by consensus, dull battles and wondering why CO is a MC since 2 academy gamers run the ship tactically…sometimes they even ask for permission from CO. I’m not sure why authors had a surgically created male-female symbiont but I’m sure it was an agenda item.
If not for KU and in between, I wouldn’t gotten further than book 2. Started skimming substantially about a third of the way in book 3. I kept hoping, and hoping that the author(s) would bring it back to something that was reasonable.
They did not, just made a mess of a semi-promising start. Sorry, mad at myself for hoping….
I admit that I liked the show and movies….mostly. But it doesn’t work very well in what I thought was to be a ‘serious’ SciFi Mil. What’s not to love about activating a relic battleship as humanity’s only chance to survive an alien invasion. And it’s crewed by re-enactors, non-graduate Academy gamers, just plain gamers, a clueless Ship CO(who’s also the MC) and a host of enlightened crew that moralize over anything related to mankind’s passion with war.
I didn’t expect to get schooled as to how to conduct and fight a war…and ensuring your side is morally right throughout. Despite a heinous alien enemy but with some not being so bad…hoping to align the reader along their(authors) agenda. I guess the lawyer MC’s purpose was to help sell, and make credible, the progressive enlightened agenda of how to fight a moral and humane war properly.
No credible Mil, leadership by consensus, dull battles and wondering why CO is a MC since 2 academy gamers run the ship tactically…sometimes they even ask for permission from CO. I’m not sure why authors had a surgically created male-female symbiont but I’m sure it was an agenda item.
If not for KU and in between, I wouldn’t gotten further than book 2. Started skimming substantially about a third of the way in book 3. I kept hoping, and hoping that the author(s) would bring it back to something that was reasonable.
They did not, just made a mess of a semi-promising start. Sorry, mad at myself for hoping….
December 28, 2022
Getting back to a great series we find things initially calmed down. The Confederation starship Delta Orionis, a.k.a., Hunter is in orbit over New Copenhagen making some major repairs with the help of the people and industries on New Copenhagen. They had won this last battle but it has cost them in material, but not they seemed to have the time and the ability to recuperate from that ordeal and come back even better.
It also gave Lisa Gane time to adjust to her new life paired with a Tardan named Regex. She, as you should know by now, is a computer hacker while the alien entity she is physically paired with was a computer hardware expert for the Tardans. While she was having some trouble adjusting to having another's thoughts in her mind, they were slowly learning to accommodate each other and thought that they each could learn something from the other since this paring was probably going to be for life. Additionally, since the Hunter had captured a number of civilian and military Tardans and their computers, Lisa was in demand for communicating with the aliens. Her on-board alien had no problem translating what was said they the captive Tardans and Lisa could therefore almost provide and English translation immediately. They also were working on cracking some Tardan computer security features which should allow them to access whatever information was contained on the Tardan computers. Commodore Jack Romanoff was especially interested in what was on the Tardan military computers.
Meanwhile, everyone knew that the Tardan threat wasn't over and that the Novarites could pose an even greater threat to the humans of the Confederation. They had received some information from one of the Tardan military computers that indicated their main focus was going to be in the Argent system. So, Commodore Jack Romanoff had his staff begin making battle plans for securing that system now that the Hunter was back up to better than before operations. They were also incorporating some of the alien technology into the Hunter which would give them capabilities they didn't have before. Still, testing of this alien tech and how it operated with the normal functions of the Hunter was something they tried to go slow on.
Still, the had to jump to Argent and liberate that system from the Tardans and any Novarites that might have caught up with the Tardans. That battle was short and extremely violent, but the Hunter and her crew were battle tested and proved so by eliminating the current threat to Argent. They expected to see wide-spread chaos on the planet with all the orbiting military facilities destroyed and then much of the military and even civilian centers being obliterated. That's not what they found. Well, the orbiting military facilities, space stations and shipyards had been all destroyed, but one civilian space station seemed to still be in operation.
Upon contacting the planet directly, they were placed in contact with a Rear Admiral Troy Allen. He was the ranking military authority in the Argent system and his position was as Confederation military advisor to the Agent President. But, as Commodore Romanoff was soon to find out, Admiral Allen wanted to put himself in charge of all military assets in the Confederation and that included taking strategic command of the Hunter. So now not only did Jack have to fight off an alien invasion, he was also going to have to fight to keep his command. Legally, the thought he could do so and on further study, the realized that Admiral Allen had no command experience whatsoever and had never even commanded a military vessel in peacetime. He was an administrative officer and nothing much more although he was competent at his duties or he wouldn't have risen to his present rank.
Then the Hunter's sensors start reporting more hostile alien ships are inbound to the Argent system. Jack is directly ordered by Admiral Allen to place the Hunter in orbit above Argent and protect it's civilian population! Jack knows that's not the way to win this battle so he takes off to go meet this new threat! Now he has defied a direct order and no telling how that will turn out. What's more important is that the new threat consists of a least two Novarite battleships. These ships are much larger and probably more powerful than the Hunter although they have fired their main weapons since the last time the Hunter met up with one of these, she rammed the Novarite ship before it could get off a shot. They aren't going to get the chance to do that, besides, that's a terrible tactic no matter how well it worked last time.
The story moves along at a fast pace and this new situation at Argent is kind of expected, but I think gets resolved in the proper way although it's not completely settled. There's still more fighting to do and that will be cover in book 6, "The Grand Conspiracy". I'm placing it on my reading list right now.
It also gave Lisa Gane time to adjust to her new life paired with a Tardan named Regex. She, as you should know by now, is a computer hacker while the alien entity she is physically paired with was a computer hardware expert for the Tardans. While she was having some trouble adjusting to having another's thoughts in her mind, they were slowly learning to accommodate each other and thought that they each could learn something from the other since this paring was probably going to be for life. Additionally, since the Hunter had captured a number of civilian and military Tardans and their computers, Lisa was in demand for communicating with the aliens. Her on-board alien had no problem translating what was said they the captive Tardans and Lisa could therefore almost provide and English translation immediately. They also were working on cracking some Tardan computer security features which should allow them to access whatever information was contained on the Tardan computers. Commodore Jack Romanoff was especially interested in what was on the Tardan military computers.
Meanwhile, everyone knew that the Tardan threat wasn't over and that the Novarites could pose an even greater threat to the humans of the Confederation. They had received some information from one of the Tardan military computers that indicated their main focus was going to be in the Argent system. So, Commodore Jack Romanoff had his staff begin making battle plans for securing that system now that the Hunter was back up to better than before operations. They were also incorporating some of the alien technology into the Hunter which would give them capabilities they didn't have before. Still, testing of this alien tech and how it operated with the normal functions of the Hunter was something they tried to go slow on.
Still, the had to jump to Argent and liberate that system from the Tardans and any Novarites that might have caught up with the Tardans. That battle was short and extremely violent, but the Hunter and her crew were battle tested and proved so by eliminating the current threat to Argent. They expected to see wide-spread chaos on the planet with all the orbiting military facilities destroyed and then much of the military and even civilian centers being obliterated. That's not what they found. Well, the orbiting military facilities, space stations and shipyards had been all destroyed, but one civilian space station seemed to still be in operation.
Upon contacting the planet directly, they were placed in contact with a Rear Admiral Troy Allen. He was the ranking military authority in the Argent system and his position was as Confederation military advisor to the Agent President. But, as Commodore Romanoff was soon to find out, Admiral Allen wanted to put himself in charge of all military assets in the Confederation and that included taking strategic command of the Hunter. So now not only did Jack have to fight off an alien invasion, he was also going to have to fight to keep his command. Legally, the thought he could do so and on further study, the realized that Admiral Allen had no command experience whatsoever and had never even commanded a military vessel in peacetime. He was an administrative officer and nothing much more although he was competent at his duties or he wouldn't have risen to his present rank.
Then the Hunter's sensors start reporting more hostile alien ships are inbound to the Argent system. Jack is directly ordered by Admiral Allen to place the Hunter in orbit above Argent and protect it's civilian population! Jack knows that's not the way to win this battle so he takes off to go meet this new threat! Now he has defied a direct order and no telling how that will turn out. What's more important is that the new threat consists of a least two Novarite battleships. These ships are much larger and probably more powerful than the Hunter although they have fired their main weapons since the last time the Hunter met up with one of these, she rammed the Novarite ship before it could get off a shot. They aren't going to get the chance to do that, besides, that's a terrible tactic no matter how well it worked last time.
The story moves along at a fast pace and this new situation at Argent is kind of expected, but I think gets resolved in the proper way although it's not completely settled. There's still more fighting to do and that will be cover in book 6, "The Grand Conspiracy". I'm placing it on my reading list right now.
October 28, 2022
COMMAND AUTHORITY
Book 5 of The Last Hunter series is here. I think it’s a winner.
Our heroes on The Hunter have two enemies in the cluster: the Tardans and their overlords the Novarites. The Tardans are a parasitic species that was built by the Novarites to operate in a host body and build warships for the Novarites. In an effort to escape their masters, the Tardans built colony ships and a few warships and a crapton of droids and droid motherships. These droid ships attacked the Humans 200 years ago, and the Battleship Division of the Navy built the Hunters to fight them off in the Locust War.
Now the Locusts are back, but we have learned that they are the Tardans. Their military is not doing what their civilian leadership want. Rather, they have decided to take the Humans as their new hosts and use them to return and fight the Novarites. Unknown to the Tardans, the Novarites have detected their migration fleets, and are following them to punish them. Novarites are very warlike, and are run by a military dictatorship. They are huge – 3 meters tall – and they never surrender. Fight fight fight, that’s their motto.
Lisa Ganes is a contractor, hired by the Battleship division to help with hacking and translating. When we last saw her, she had been paralyzed by a gunshot, and the Tardan Regex had been placed in her body. Now Lisa and Regex share a brain and a body, and she’s no longer paralyzed but feels inhabited. In this book she makes progress on the language, on hacking Tardan and Novarite computers, and more. She’s coming around to the idea of symbiosis with Regex.
The largest system in the cluster is Argent, with 10 billion humans. Lisa learns that there is a large Tardan occupation center there. Commodore Jack Romanoff remembers the damage the Tardans did to New Copenhagen in Book 4, and decides to liverate Argent if he can.
Command Authority refers to the clash between Romanoff and Admiral Allen, a survivor of the Tardan occupation of the Argent System. Who will set strategy and give orders of operations of the Hunter?
One of Lisa’s best results is discovery of the possibility of using the quantum drive and the hyperspace drive at the same time. The Skip Drive might give the Hunter the ability to move faster than normal even inside a gravity well.
The story is a rip-roaring adventure. What will the Hunter find at Argent?
There are two story lines that are being saved for the future: the other battleships and the Novarites’ enemies.
We have 11 more battleships back at Port Royale. Given time, the huge population of Argent means we might be able to repair and crew more of them. It’s been hinted at before, and I hope to see it someday.
The motivation for the Novarites to create the Tardans is because they have been in a war for centuries. Who is fighting the Novarites? Might they be potential allies for the humans? Nothing has been said in book 5 about them, but I wonder if the enemy of my enemy might be my frenemy.
I can't wait for Book 6
I received an advance copy in exchange for an honest review.
Book 5 of The Last Hunter series is here. I think it’s a winner.
Our heroes on The Hunter have two enemies in the cluster: the Tardans and their overlords the Novarites. The Tardans are a parasitic species that was built by the Novarites to operate in a host body and build warships for the Novarites. In an effort to escape their masters, the Tardans built colony ships and a few warships and a crapton of droids and droid motherships. These droid ships attacked the Humans 200 years ago, and the Battleship Division of the Navy built the Hunters to fight them off in the Locust War.
Now the Locusts are back, but we have learned that they are the Tardans. Their military is not doing what their civilian leadership want. Rather, they have decided to take the Humans as their new hosts and use them to return and fight the Novarites. Unknown to the Tardans, the Novarites have detected their migration fleets, and are following them to punish them. Novarites are very warlike, and are run by a military dictatorship. They are huge – 3 meters tall – and they never surrender. Fight fight fight, that’s their motto.
Lisa Ganes is a contractor, hired by the Battleship division to help with hacking and translating. When we last saw her, she had been paralyzed by a gunshot, and the Tardan Regex had been placed in her body. Now Lisa and Regex share a brain and a body, and she’s no longer paralyzed but feels inhabited. In this book she makes progress on the language, on hacking Tardan and Novarite computers, and more. She’s coming around to the idea of symbiosis with Regex.
The largest system in the cluster is Argent, with 10 billion humans. Lisa learns that there is a large Tardan occupation center there. Commodore Jack Romanoff remembers the damage the Tardans did to New Copenhagen in Book 4, and decides to liverate Argent if he can.
Command Authority refers to the clash between Romanoff and Admiral Allen, a survivor of the Tardan occupation of the Argent System. Who will set strategy and give orders of operations of the Hunter?
One of Lisa’s best results is discovery of the possibility of using the quantum drive and the hyperspace drive at the same time. The Skip Drive might give the Hunter the ability to move faster than normal even inside a gravity well.
The story is a rip-roaring adventure. What will the Hunter find at Argent?
There are two story lines that are being saved for the future: the other battleships and the Novarites’ enemies.
We have 11 more battleships back at Port Royale. Given time, the huge population of Argent means we might be able to repair and crew more of them. It’s been hinted at before, and I hope to see it someday.
The motivation for the Novarites to create the Tardans is because they have been in a war for centuries. Who is fighting the Novarites? Might they be potential allies for the humans? Nothing has been said in book 5 about them, but I wonder if the enemy of my enemy might be my frenemy.
I can't wait for Book 6
I received an advance copy in exchange for an honest review.
May 23, 2024
This one disappointed me a LOT
I have really enjoyed this series up to now, but this book dropped the standards really low. The horrible decisions of smart people and the flaws in logic left me having a hard time caring about anything because NO ONE used ANY common sense in this book.
I’ll start with the mild complaint. The story is starting to be wash, rinse, repeat. The Hunter is torn up, fixed to a certain degree, and nearly destroyed again and has to be fixed. Each time, to make it important, the authors blow it up even more but add some cool new - but glitchy - technology to try and breathe new life into the story.
There were “plot twists” that only a five year-old would have found surprising.
The Chens (the SUPER EXPERT SPY couple, were as abysmal at their job as the authors could conceive. Not believably conceive. Just as bad as they could be period. Unbelievably bad. Everything they did just screamed incompetence whether it was not alerting someone important that there was likely a killer aboard that was hunting for them, to completely IGNORING a fellow spy that they just met and was acting strangely. It was so bad I almost quit reading.
Now for the BAD PARTS! There are now so many alien aggressors and human players who range from incompetent to so insanely evil that it isn’t fathomable (and I won’t ruin this with a guess at a spoiler but I bet anyone reading with any brain can guess where the overall plot of the stealing from the Navy that the first book is centered around is going - I’ll eat this book if I end up wrong. Let’s just say that my guess is that some of the bad guys have been operating for a LONG time, not just stealing either.)
The entire fight over command was simply silly. It is wartime. Romanoff is a commodore or whatever he is, and he should declare martial law until the aliens are defeated. Screw the admiral on the planet, Romanoff has the only ship with any firepower so he has nothing to fear as long as there are aliens to fight. If they want to try and court martial him later, he strikes me as the kind of guy who would accept that and take his changes to save the human race.
And destroying his ship again is so tedious. I believe that I would have tried the maneuver that killed the first bad guy ship again, rather than take the beating that he chose.
I’m also SICK of all the good-guy war rules BS. Yeah, don’t commit war crimes, but don’t friggin subject your people to death and injury playing stupid games like, “Don’t fire or we’ll shoot.” It’s a war. You know the bad guys. SHOOT FIRST.
Finally, Lisa Gane. ANYONE who gives away her secret is a traitor. That shouldn’t be told to ANYONE who doesn’t already know. That is HER choice to reveal and it will likely kill her if they reveal it. It should go down as unnecessary for anyone to know until she chooses and she should never choose.
Book Six HAS to get better or I’m done because this one was pretty terrible. And I loved 1-4 a lot…
I have really enjoyed this series up to now, but this book dropped the standards really low. The horrible decisions of smart people and the flaws in logic left me having a hard time caring about anything because NO ONE used ANY common sense in this book.
I’ll start with the mild complaint. The story is starting to be wash, rinse, repeat. The Hunter is torn up, fixed to a certain degree, and nearly destroyed again and has to be fixed. Each time, to make it important, the authors blow it up even more but add some cool new - but glitchy - technology to try and breathe new life into the story.
There were “plot twists” that only a five year-old would have found surprising.
The Chens (the SUPER EXPERT SPY couple, were as abysmal at their job as the authors could conceive. Not believably conceive. Just as bad as they could be period. Unbelievably bad. Everything they did just screamed incompetence whether it was not alerting someone important that there was likely a killer aboard that was hunting for them, to completely IGNORING a fellow spy that they just met and was acting strangely. It was so bad I almost quit reading.
Now for the BAD PARTS! There are now so many alien aggressors and human players who range from incompetent to so insanely evil that it isn’t fathomable (and I won’t ruin this with a guess at a spoiler but I bet anyone reading with any brain can guess where the overall plot of the stealing from the Navy that the first book is centered around is going - I’ll eat this book if I end up wrong. Let’s just say that my guess is that some of the bad guys have been operating for a LONG time, not just stealing either.)
The entire fight over command was simply silly. It is wartime. Romanoff is a commodore or whatever he is, and he should declare martial law until the aliens are defeated. Screw the admiral on the planet, Romanoff has the only ship with any firepower so he has nothing to fear as long as there are aliens to fight. If they want to try and court martial him later, he strikes me as the kind of guy who would accept that and take his changes to save the human race.
And destroying his ship again is so tedious. I believe that I would have tried the maneuver that killed the first bad guy ship again, rather than take the beating that he chose.
I’m also SICK of all the good-guy war rules BS. Yeah, don’t commit war crimes, but don’t friggin subject your people to death and injury playing stupid games like, “Don’t fire or we’ll shoot.” It’s a war. You know the bad guys. SHOOT FIRST.
Finally, Lisa Gane. ANYONE who gives away her secret is a traitor. That shouldn’t be told to ANYONE who doesn’t already know. That is HER choice to reveal and it will likely kill her if they reveal it. It should go down as unnecessary for anyone to know until she chooses and she should never choose.
Book Six HAS to get better or I’m done because this one was pretty terrible. And I loved 1-4 a lot…
November 13, 2022
The fight continues against both aliens and humans
This book comes a little time after the last one with repairs to the last Hunter being complete and the new alien hyper drive and their quantum drive now being installed. They have another person with an alien implanted, though this one they seek to remove.
Leaps and bounds are made in technological understanding of the alien tech and how it can be used with some on the fly research as to the best action. They discover that there are three alien bases and head towards one at Argent. The aliens are given the opportunity to leave the planet which they do and the greater enemy may turn out to be humans with their political wrangling and the great conspiracy....
A space battle with aliens is still present towards the end of the book.
This book does well with the description of the uneasy truce between Lisa and her alien symbiotic Regex as they grow to accept each other. There is some suspense, some intrigue some character development and some interesting new characters leading to another entertaining story in the ongoing saga that leaves yearning for the next book.
This book comes a little time after the last one with repairs to the last Hunter being complete and the new alien hyper drive and their quantum drive now being installed. They have another person with an alien implanted, though this one they seek to remove.
Leaps and bounds are made in technological understanding of the alien tech and how it can be used with some on the fly research as to the best action. They discover that there are three alien bases and head towards one at Argent. The aliens are given the opportunity to leave the planet which they do and the greater enemy may turn out to be humans with their political wrangling and the great conspiracy....
A space battle with aliens is still present towards the end of the book.
This book does well with the description of the uneasy truce between Lisa and her alien symbiotic Regex as they grow to accept each other. There is some suspense, some intrigue some character development and some interesting new characters leading to another entertaining story in the ongoing saga that leaves yearning for the next book.
April 12, 2023
Great Read
Commodore Jack Romanoff and crew with the aid of those his battleship nicknamed HUNTER liberated from the aliens threatening humanity, have gotten the ship back in fighting condition, but nowhere near 100%. With the quantum drive repaired and information they gleamed from alien computers, they have set out on the offensive to travel to take not one but two different alien species on at a large human occupied space. But nothing is easy for Commodore Romanoff and crew. Two large alien forces are enroute to the system. The large world they are there to help is surrounded by aliens they must defeat before more aliens show up. Once that’s do they have to report to an egotistical, moronic, micromanaging excuse of an admiral with zero combat experience how plans on dictating the the Commodore Jack how to prosecute the upcoming battle replacing Jack’s combat hardened young crew members that have not yet graduated from the academy and Marine basic with the admiral’s inexperienced and untrained in the antiquated operation of a 2000 year old battleship. This should be enlightening! stand by for heavy rolls!
Commodore Jack Romanoff and crew with the aid of those his battleship nicknamed HUNTER liberated from the aliens threatening humanity, have gotten the ship back in fighting condition, but nowhere near 100%. With the quantum drive repaired and information they gleamed from alien computers, they have set out on the offensive to travel to take not one but two different alien species on at a large human occupied space. But nothing is easy for Commodore Romanoff and crew. Two large alien forces are enroute to the system. The large world they are there to help is surrounded by aliens they must defeat before more aliens show up. Once that’s do they have to report to an egotistical, moronic, micromanaging excuse of an admiral with zero combat experience how plans on dictating the the Commodore Jack how to prosecute the upcoming battle replacing Jack’s combat hardened young crew members that have not yet graduated from the academy and Marine basic with the admiral’s inexperienced and untrained in the antiquated operation of a 2000 year old battleship. This should be enlightening! stand by for heavy rolls!
November 2, 2022
Most of this book is actually quite good. However, this is nevertheless the first 3 out of 5 star book in this series. The others have all been 4 out of 5 stars.
Why is this? Well, those of you who has read other reviews from me knows that I absolutely despise bullshit politics in my reading and this book unfortunately goes down the drain of bullshit politics towards the end. The authors introducing some desk jockey Admiral caring more about uniform code than fighting a war and with illusions of grandeur just pissed me off. Not only that but this book really sets up the next book to be all about political bullshit. Now the latter is of course an assumption on my part but it still left me with a not so happy feeling at the end of the book.
The first parts of the book is quite good though. I like the main protagonist. The book is well written and there is a fair amount of military action. His ragtag fleet, not to mention his battleship which gets shot up in every single book, is still hanging buy with guts and a shitload of duck tape. The latter which is a bit annoying. I was hoping that they would get the battleship fully fixed up and some of the other mothballed ships back in action as well by now. It is the fifth book after all.
Anyway, I guess we will have to see where it goes. It is still a quite read worthy series.
Why is this? Well, those of you who has read other reviews from me knows that I absolutely despise bullshit politics in my reading and this book unfortunately goes down the drain of bullshit politics towards the end. The authors introducing some desk jockey Admiral caring more about uniform code than fighting a war and with illusions of grandeur just pissed me off. Not only that but this book really sets up the next book to be all about political bullshit. Now the latter is of course an assumption on my part but it still left me with a not so happy feeling at the end of the book.
The first parts of the book is quite good though. I like the main protagonist. The book is well written and there is a fair amount of military action. His ragtag fleet, not to mention his battleship which gets shot up in every single book, is still hanging buy with guts and a shitload of duck tape. The latter which is a bit annoying. I was hoping that they would get the battleship fully fixed up and some of the other mothballed ships back in action as well by now. It is the fifth book after all.
Anyway, I guess we will have to see where it goes. It is still a quite read worthy series.
January 5, 2023
Good story but too much tell not show
So I’m going to finish this series because it is interesting but I must say that there is soooooo much talking!! Yeah talking is a thing but there is very little showing. I feel like there was better showing in previous books. The battles are much too short and seem too easy. I’d like more showing and action than talking and explaining everything.
So I’m going to finish this series because it is interesting but I must say that there is soooooo much talking!! Yeah talking is a thing but there is very little showing. I feel like there was better showing in previous books. The battles are much too short and seem too easy. I’d like more showing and action than talking and explaining everything.
June 3, 2024
The war expands further
The situation is growing more complicated and not just because of the huge number of adversaries showing up.
The Tardan military along with their viscous Novarite creators were already a significant danger to Hunter. But the original conspiracy & graft surrounding the battleship fleet is becoming increasingly evident. So Jack & his crew have their backs to the wall while they figure out how to fight so many enemies and in what order.
The situation is growing more complicated and not just because of the huge number of adversaries showing up.
The Tardan military along with their viscous Novarite creators were already a significant danger to Hunter. But the original conspiracy & graft surrounding the battleship fleet is becoming increasingly evident. So Jack & his crew have their backs to the wall while they figure out how to fight so many enemies and in what order.
November 23, 2022
novel SiFi you can’t put down
As with so many of these series, this story starts with a nice slow start to get you familiar with the characters and plot, only to blow off the doors in book 4 and 5! Great writing makes a great read! You will not waste your time with these books, they rock !
As with so many of these series, this story starts with a nice slow start to get you familiar with the characters and plot, only to blow off the doors in book 4 and 5! Great writing makes a great read! You will not waste your time with these books, they rock !
February 11, 2023
This has become a favourite series. Action packed with constant ups and downs of fortune. Great likeable characters, conspiracies, corrupt officials and military in fighting add more depth and direction to the storyline. I listened to this one session and look forward to the next in the series. Jeffrey Kafer does an excellent jog with the narration
December 12, 2023
Riveting Stuff
Definitely kept me at the edge of my bed. (Yes reading in bed is the best place to read this series. ) Another nail biting finish to this book and I am rushing through this review so that I can download the next book in the series and get a few chapters read before lights out. Why do we have to sleep? Organic are such fragile things. Speak to you soon. D
Definitely kept me at the edge of my bed. (Yes reading in bed is the best place to read this series. ) Another nail biting finish to this book and I am rushing through this review so that I can download the next book in the series and get a few chapters read before lights out. Why do we have to sleep? Organic are such fragile things. Speak to you soon. D
May 18, 2024
War is brutal.
Going from having one enemy to defeat to two, is causing problems. Add political intrigue and conspiracy and it's getting diffficult to know who to trust.
Our loyal defenders are coming together as a team and the knowledge they are gathering gives them the power to continue to overcome the obstacles popping up around them.
Going from having one enemy to defeat to two, is causing problems. Add political intrigue and conspiracy and it's getting diffficult to know who to trust.
Our loyal defenders are coming together as a team and the knowledge they are gathering gives them the power to continue to overcome the obstacles popping up around them.
November 10, 2022
Starting to drag
Book 5 and it feels as though things happen just to fill out the story and the primary storyline progresses little
Hopefully things speed up in the next installment
Book 5 and it feels as though things happen just to fill out the story and the primary storyline progresses little
Hopefully things speed up in the next installment
November 11, 2022
Wow!
So good! This book was really good, and it just begins to tease how deep the conspiracy goes. And it looks like the last hunter has finally met a species it cant beat up and take there lunch miny easily. I can't wait to see what happens next.
So good! This book was really good, and it just begins to tease how deep the conspiracy goes. And it looks like the last hunter has finally met a species it cant beat up and take there lunch miny easily. I can't wait to see what happens next.
November 12, 2022
A good continuation of the story line. I agree with another review that it seems to be a bit of filler. But it does advance the story. I look forward to reading the next book. I thank the author for making this available on Kindle Unlimited.
November 14, 2022
Another awesome book The characters continue to grow in the situations get more strenuous with each
Strong characters, strong leadership, and a commitment of the crew to protect all that they come across and to carry the fight to the enemy.
Strong characters, strong leadership, and a commitment of the crew to protect all that they come across and to carry the fight to the enemy.
November 15, 2022
Excellent, 5 stars! Can u guys get the sequel out sooner?
See above
Need some more time to write?
I’ll send someone by to vacuum or do your dishes maybe, (not me). Hit those keyboards, full speed ahead!!!!!!
See above
Need some more time to write?
I’ll send someone by to vacuum or do your dishes maybe, (not me). Hit those keyboards, full speed ahead!!!!!!
November 26, 2022
captivating read,
Aliens, space war fare, computer hackers, conspiracies, spying, this book has it all and keeps you engaged throughout! Strongly recommend you pick this series up and buckle up it’s a hell of a ride!
Aliens, space war fare, computer hackers, conspiracies, spying, this book has it all and keeps you engaged throughout! Strongly recommend you pick this series up and buckle up it’s a hell of a ride!
June 3, 2023
I is a middle book. A lot of pressure, problems and pain in the… Some ideas were recirculated, some plots were reinstated, and not the interesting ones. By the end were some good battles and maybe some new information about the enemy.
July 16, 2024
Reviewed by Beth
Can someone just stop the madness! I swear each book gets more intense than the last book.
On the front there is at least 3 different issues. Two different aliens and one inside issue with a bunch of branches!
This crew keeps on like that bunny on commercials.
Can someone just stop the madness! I swear each book gets more intense than the last book.
On the front there is at least 3 different issues. Two different aliens and one inside issue with a bunch of branches!
This crew keeps on like that bunny on commercials.
February 18, 2025
I loved getting to know Lisa & Regex more! There’s a lot of avenues the author could go with them. The plot is also thickening and we’re starting to see connections between the tardans, novarites,and the confederation. This series is definitely one you have to be in for the long haul.
October 28, 2022
Hunting for a good book, the Hunter series is a good catch
Another good book you want to finish, so you can read the next. The characters are good. The plot draws you in.
Another good book you want to finish, so you can read the next. The characters are good. The plot draws you in.
October 31, 2022
Helluva Ride!
Edge of your seat until the very end! I look forward to the next book. Will it be the last? I certainly hope not!
Edge of your seat until the very end! I look forward to the next book. Will it be the last? I certainly hope not!
November 6, 2022
I enjoyed this book much more than the previous one and even though there were a couple of minor irritations with the final big battle, it was still worth four stars.
December 4, 2022
Super good really good book
This is an exciting fun book To read I highly recommend To read I highly recommend this book a lot it has a great plot and It is a fun read.
This is an exciting fun book To read I highly recommend To read I highly recommend this book a lot it has a great plot and It is a fun read.
December 13, 2022
Great
This is a great addition to the series, by Mr J N Chaney and Terry Mixon. I really enjoy the deepening character development and story line.
This is a great addition to the series, by Mr J N Chaney and Terry Mixon. I really enjoy the deepening character development and story line.
December 31, 2022
The book seemed to switch partway through. The style changed, and the flow changed abruptly. I did not like it and stopped partway through.
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