Starship Tomahawk The Hive Invasion Book 2 eBook Jake Elwood
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A war in deep space
The Hive has retreated from Earth, and Captain Richard Hammett has been ordered to give chase - in three puny corvettes. He expects to find the colony on Ariadne in ruins, but the colonists are alive, and they're fighting back.
Leads to a war on the home front
The first battle is ugly. It's only when reinforcements arrive from Earth, though, that things REALLY get bad. There's been a change of government, and the Navy has a new mission - keep the people of Earth under control.
As the Hive prepares a doomsday weapon and launches it at Ariadne, Hammett receives new orders. He is to abandon the colony. Now, a man who has built his life around service to the Navy must make an impossible decision - disgrace his uniform, or become a mutineer.
Starship Tomahawk The Hive Invasion Book 2 eBook Jake Elwood
I loved Starship Alexander (Hive Invasion Book 1), and while this is in the same vein, I felt it had a couple of flaws. The writing is great: it flows well, there are no errors, the plot is very good and Elwood delivers just enough description to engage the reader without slowing the pace.The main thing I didn't like was that I feld that the EDF was too over the top, to the point where they became a caricature. The EDF incidents that happen, particularly those involving Navy ships and personnel, strained my credulity. However, Richard Hammett is a great character, and many of the colonists and Navy personnel are also well developed and engaging.
Nevertheless the book can be read (just) as a stand alone novel, and is as highly entertaining as Jake Elwood always is. As the second volume in a trilogy, it completes its mission very well, and now I have to go and buy Starship Theseus (The Hive Invasion Book 3).
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Starship Tomahawk The Hive Invasion Book 2 eBook Jake Elwood Reviews
I'll just go straight to it. The author started a major political sub-plot that has a huge impact on entire story line, if not changing the story completely. The entire political scene is ridiculous and just destroyed the book. Author's politics are obvious and bottom line is vote Democratic or have you're entire world changed for worse.
Additionally, the book is riddled with inconsistency. Author obviously never been in military. Not that being in military makes one an expert, but it does give an author a chance at getting the basics down. Either former military or RESEARCH and research properly, not only bits of minutiae you like. Authors research was probably a movie or two he liked. Start with chapter of initial reconnaissance of planet and read for a few chapters. Amateurish is too kind.
Tired of earth being bad guy. And how bad, in so short of time, is unbelievable. Nuking Montreal to stop peaceful protesters? And all because we didn't vote for the common sense female candidate but other guy, a snake in the grass with money, fame and fortune. This leads Earth down a spiral that may last forever or doom the planet, at least in this FICTIONAL series. And no one does anything, populace-democratic elected officials- military that obeys LAWFUL, MORAL ORDERS.
I'm sure next book will be out soon. This isn't mil SciFi , politics that is blatantly bad. I just take umbrage that you used this genre for your politics.
I enjoyed this second book in the series. It moved along well and stayed interesting till the end. I would definitely want to read the next installment. The political part of the story was a bit exaggerated, but the military part more than made up for it. I have never written a review before, but I would never have the patience to read through a book that I thought was a one or two-star rating. I would drop it and find something that engaged me. So I never have understood low ratings unless the reviewer lets us know how far they read in the book. There are only a few reviews for this book and it almost discouraged me from getting this one. I really liked the first in the series and just wanted to see if the low ratings were justified. I don't think they were.
I enjoyed the second book in the Hive Invasion series. The Hive ships continue to adapt, as do the Earth ships. The mysterious behavior of the Hive individuals is consistent but baffling, as they attack in groups but quickly scatter in the face of a determined defense, only to reappear with new strategies. They're inept at defending a major planetary structure but have effective tools against the larger space force ships, but don't use them in great numbers.
This book brings in new political problems in the form of the jack-booted thugs of the EDF - the Earth Defence Force - a newly minted Gestapo-like arm of the Earth world government. One of the reasons that I didn't give five stars is because it doesn't seem terribly plausible, as Earth barely suffered under the aliens before regaining their freedom. But then, history does tend to repeat itself.
The space battles are good, but they feel cut off - another reason for four stars instead of five. The narrative tends to show the opening blows, then switch to a side scene, then come back to a resolved space battle. It happens twice, and it's a bit annoying to skip the great laser show and the blasting of enemy ships. You have to feel in the blanks a bit.
Nevertheless, it's a solid four star read for me, quite entertaining and riveting. I'm looking forward to future installments! (I hope there's not much political action - generally that bores me and I speed-read through it.)
good read
I really liked this book can't wait to see where the next book takes the story I will definitely read the next book
Good old-fashioned space opera with a dashing hero, a brilliant lady scientist, rugged colonists, and an SS style political group "supervising" the military as they try to fight the Hive aliens.
Book one was a little far fetched even for sci fi. Emp knocks out their electronics so the stick their heads out and fight visually at interplanetary distances? Yea right. Book two started out the same and then took a political turn that killed it immediately. Couldn't finish book 2 and definitely won't buy book 3.
I loved Starship Alexander (Hive Invasion Book 1), and while this is in the same vein, I felt it had a couple of flaws. The writing is great it flows well, there are no errors, the plot is very good and Elwood delivers just enough description to engage the reader without slowing the pace.
The main thing I didn't like was that I feld that the EDF was too over the top, to the point where they became a caricature. The EDF incidents that happen, particularly those involving Navy ships and personnel, strained my credulity. However, Richard Hammett is a great character, and many of the colonists and Navy personnel are also well developed and engaging.
Nevertheless the book can be read (just) as a stand alone novel, and is as highly entertaining as Jake Elwood always is. As the second volume in a trilogy, it completes its mission very well, and now I have to go and buy Starship Theseus (The Hive Invasion Book 3).
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