Red Sky at Morning

Rating:
Summary: Good Effort but better online
Review: Being a huge fan of the DaKverse, I have been waiting for this book to be released. When I finally read the print version, I was happy overall, but a little disappointed. The writing seems to have changed since the online version and was a little stale in places. Some of the plot was easy to figure out and contrived. I also wish they had kept the story as one book rather than separating it into two. The story is good, but not as a stand alone.

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Summary: Missy Good rules as usual!
Review: Having already read this novel on Melissa Good's site (where everything she ever wrote can be found) I know this book to be a worthy sequel to the previous 'Tropical Storm', 'Hurricane Watch' and 'Eye of the Storm'!
'Red Sky at Morning' brings us back again into the lives of the ever-popular Dar Roberts and Kerry Stuart; the two women that captured the heart of so many Xena; WP fans out there when "Uber" fiction just came to live.
I won't tell you anything about the storyline of this book, you're just gonna have to trust me on this:
If you love the series Xena;WP, (and you're not afraid of the idea that two women love each other) Melissa Good's work is a must read. If you are already a fan of the DaKverse, don't hesitate... you won't be disappointed with this sequel!

Rating:
Summary: Can't stand on laurals
Review: I've been a fan of Melissa Good's work, especially the Dar and Kerry series, for a long time now. I own all the prior books in the series and I absolutely LOVE them! I reread them frequently and even though I know what's coming, Ms. Good's undeniable gift from the Muses manages to pull me in so that I feel like I am reading the stories for the first time.

With that said, I must admit that I am very disappointed in this next installment in the DaK series. The combination of military jargon and complex computer scenarios make this novel kind of boring for an average civilian who is no computer geek like Dar Roberts. Aside from that, I was most disappointed in the characters this time around. I mean, just how many different ways can you make Dar Roberts out to be this super-human person who is too good to interact with the people around her? I feel like this novel captured them all. Yuck! I couldn't even finish the book! Who wants to read hundreds of pages about a person like that?

I would suggest skimming the online version of this story for the Dar and Kerry parts. Those are always so beautiful. Otherwise, this book is not a necessary investment.

Rating:
Summary: Surprising Disappointment!
Review: I've been a fan of Melissa Good's work, especially the Dar and Kerry series, for a long time now. I own all the prior books in the series and I absolutely LOVE them! I reread them frequently and even though I know what's coming, Ms. Good's undeniable gift from the Muses manages to pull me in so that I feel like I am reading the stories for the first time.

With that said, I must admit that I am very disappointed in this next installment in the DaK series. The combination of military jargon and complex computer scenarios make this novel kind of boring for an average civilian who is no computer geek like Dar Roberts. Aside from that, I was most disappointed in the characters this time around. I mean, just how many different ways can you make Dar Roberts out to be this super-human person who is too good to interact with the people around her? I feel like this novel captured them all. Yuck! I couldn't even finish the book! Who wants to read hundreds of pages about a person like that?

I would suggest skimming the online version of this story for the Dar and Kerry parts. Those are always so beautiful. Otherwise, this book is not a necessary investment.

Rating:
Summary: Can't stand on laurals
Review: Obviously attempting to stand on previous publications, Miss Good has a flop with this drivel. Her characters of Dar and Kerry compliment each other, but Dar is just overplayed in this slow moving, computer language drivel. You can't stand on previous laurals Missy so concentrate on better writing if you want me to buy anymore of your books.

Rating:
Summary: "Everybody Loves Dar"
Review: Should have called this one "Everybody Loves Dar". What was an occasional tendency in the first book, and a trend in the second and third efforts, has come to full and damaging fruition in the fourth Dar & Kerry story in the series. The chorus of admiration for Dar Roberts has grown to deafening proportions in Red Sky. As well it should, since every character but Dar sings that particular one note song endlessly. Ms. Good seems to have lost the measure of her two main characters and most sadly of all, the tenor of their relationship, to this apparently irresistable need to puff every aspect of Dar.

Rating:
Summary: Too many errors
Review: The plot is pretty good, but the little errors scattered throughout distracted from the book. (A 30-year old would not be a Captain in the Naval Surface WArfare community. Navy Chiefs are not officers. The rank of "major" doesn't exist in the Navy.) A little bit of research would have made this book a lot better.