Joshua H.

Worst ending for a series ever.

Revisado: 10-15-20

To have gone through several books worth of story, with the main characters doggedly fighting for self-determination and freedom, from an alien involuntary collective, only to happily give up and settle down with an artificial intelligence is the new master of the socialist earth, Is still at odds with any of the principles and morals that those characters espouse for the entirety of the series, that it broke the whole story. What a waste!

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This story is schizophrenic.

Revisado: 06-13-19

It’s fiction, and thank god for that, but the author couldn’t seem to decide who the bad guys were.

On the one hand, the State of California has gone full fascist, monitoring its citizens movements, consumption of food, water use, and rating those things publicly for your neighbors to see. In addition, the CSP has turned into the California Secret Police.
But the author seems to think that all of those things are no big deal, and in fact attributes the “success” of the state in the face of “water theft” by the state of Colorado (because Colorado is using too much water from the Colorado river before Kalifornia can get their hands on it) to exactly these big brother measures.

And there is an apparently popular movement for Kalifornia to secede from the USA. And that movement is apparently only opposed by large, evil corporations, who have private armies, access to better weapons and tech than the government, and have a willingness to blow up nuclear plants in the name of saving their investments in California.

The ideas here are ridiculous. The impression the author has of the military is more parody than reality.

Worst book I’ve read in a long time.

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The disgust and scorn for the US Military and it’s members is epic...

Revisado: 09-12-18

A story which, based on its plot, could have been both interesting and exciting, instead plods along in a predictable path that is punctuated with reminders that the author believes that only a suicidal imbecile would enter the military of their own free will, and that those members are then beaten and brainwashed into becoming murderous robots, incapable of independent thought, and constantly 1 step from a bloody rampage.

It is impressively offensive.

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An avowed socialist seeks "truth", as long as it fits his world view.

Revisado: 08-30-17

A socialist uses historical examples of fascism, communism, and Hitler's to proselytize his vision of a political future, described in the book as "Conservative Socialist Democracy", and advocates the seeking of truth over propaganda.

Unfortunately, this book is pure propaganda in its own right.

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Good concept, Whiny "Heroine".

Revisado: 06-15-17

While the story and concept were good, the necessity to ignore the apparently obvious to all fact that the "heroine", described as a skilled thief, spent all her time running headlong into whatever was waiting to kill her & her friends, without thought or planning, and that her "friends" spent basically the entire book pissed at her for one thing or another that they decided without discussion was "wrong", made it difficult to suspend my disbelief.

If this person had the personality and skills that were described, she'd have been more likely to tell her "friends" to take a long walk off a short pier than bow and scrape to them as she actually did in the book.

I was not impressed with the characterization in the book, to say the least.

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