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Summary: Excellent!
Review: "Challenger's Hope" is really, really cool. The characters and story are very well developed. The only problem is from this story into the various sequels, he constantly harps about how he's going to hell for breaking his oath, which isn't an unforgivable sin. A great read.
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Summary: The captivation continues...
Review: Captive reading, that is! I cannot agree more with all the reviewers so far who have said they could not put the book down... Be prepared and leave a lazy day for this one. Seafort's dynamic personality becomes even more dynamic in this sequel. We see a lot more confusion in him in this story as opposed to Midshipman's Hope, perhaps due to the undue torment he faces from the universe. Emotionally (depending on your level of heart), this novel could make you cry, put you in a rage, and make you depressed all in the same day. It brought me to the verge of most of these emotions. Some times you feel "It's just not fair!" what happens to Seafort... But where, then, does the plot come from? Let me amend my previous statement. Get a hotel room to yourself for a night. Otherwise you won't satisfy the pace at which you'll want to plough through this book. My navy salute! Enjoy.
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Summary: Worthy Sequel to Midshipman's Hope
Review: Challenger's Hope adds to Nicholas Seafort's character. He loses his wife and sun to an alien attack, he is betrayed by an admiral, some of his passengers are bigots and violent street children, and Nick is forced to break an oath. David Feintuch is my favorite author, and he shows an incredible writing talent by adding depth to Nick and his world, making the aliens actually scary, and delivering an exciting and moving story. I salute you Mr. Feintuch.
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Summary: A book so good, it almost cost me my job!
Review: Do to the intense nature of this book, it is not recommended for the weak at heart. I found myself almost brought to tears three times (twice for saddness and once for anger)while reading this book. It will hold any reader's attention and is extremely hard to put down. I found myself reading til 3am and having to show at work by 6am. The boss wasn't happy so I told him about the book. Now he has boodshot eyes. Read this book
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Summary: A Spectacular Series
Review: Feintuch has really created a fantastic series with the Seafort Saga. I haven't been drawn into a book this much since "The Lord of the Rings." Feintuch really creates a world where the reader can lose him or herself. The characters are developed well, and the plot is spectacular. Anyone who loves the Navy or SciFi will love this book, and even those who aren't(like myself) will enjoy it. Really, if I could give this book 10 stars, I would. Excellent read.
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Summary: The fish are back - this time it's personal
Review: I read MIDSHIPMAN'S HOPE in a few days - I couldn't put it down. When I found the sequel, CHALLENGER'S HOPE I read that in a matter of hours. Having struggled to keep the crew and passengers on Hibernia alive while under attack from "the fish", Nicholas Seafort has been given command of a new ship - though not quite in the way he expected. This is far more of an adventure novel than the first, and you keep wondering how on earth he's going to avoid getting shot this time, but the story is fascinating and the action scenes will have you glued to the page. This is well worth the money but you have to read the first book or none of it makes sense. Go and buy both of them - it'll save you time later on.
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Summary: Nice read, but I'm getting sick of Nick...
Review: I read the Seafort Saga many years back, and I decided to re-read them now that Children of Hope and Patriarch's Hope are out (they weren't out the first time I read the books). So, I wanted to refresh myself before I read the two new ones... In this book, Seafort is sent with a big group of ships to go defend Hope Nation. The only problem is, they fuse a great deal of times and meet fish on two of those times. Betrayed by the admiral in charge, Seafort is transferred to a disabled ship with a bunch of the more useless (read, trannie - sort of street kids - and elderly) passengers. His crew is skeletal, and some of them are rebellious. The passengers are snotty except for the old ones, who are pretty dang useless, and the trannies who dont' improve the situation. So... Seafort tries to pull things together and improve their chances of survival although everything looks pretty dang hopeless. Seafort becomes more disagreeable throughout the book until you feel like you'd join in any rebellion against him too. But, it's a good book. Feintuch has a rare talent of drawing the reader into the book and making the reader become attached to the characters (my attachment is to Vax). Watch the characters grow and change... all the while keeping the story interesting and suspenseful. I don't think this book is as good as Midshipman's Hope, but it is a good read and I recommend this saga to anybody. Actually, I just got my best friend addicted to it by giving her Midshipman's Hope for her birthday and sending her Challenger's Hope when she was done iwth the first one. She absolutely loves the books, as does my other best friend. And the one had never even read sci-fi before! As she put it, you forget it's a scifi novel for the most part. It's about living and dealing with problems...
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Summary: ee-yuck
Review: I tried really hard to like this book as with the others in the series. But it was simply impossible. Don't get me wrong. I like heroes and anti-heroes. And even as a kid I thought that Captain Bligh was one of the former. But the main character here is the sort of half-crazed martinet who makes Captain Queeg look like Francis of Assissi and Mother Courage rolled into one. A religious fanatic. Grasping. Power mad. Self-absorbed. Needlessly cruel. With no regard for the lives and well-being of his men. The kind of officer who would be fragged in any sane military past or present and who would almost certainly have washed out of OCS, much less a the military academy. The covert racism in this and others is impossible to ignore. The "gangs" down in the cities are all Black or Latino (as if these would still be meaningful categories that far in the future). They even talk like refugees from a minstrel show. And the "Fish", the demons of the piece, aren't even very good monsters. They seem big, strong, dumb and hungry. Less the objects of a military campaign than a job for the game warden. This whole series is a lot like a sick cat; it just doesn't wash.
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Summary: Character whose sense of duty makes him unbearable
Review: If it weren't for the main character Seafort, I would probably finish this series. But since this "hero" is apparently never going to grow beyond being an unlikable and ridiculous child, I will gratefully move on to some other author's work...a writer who understands the difference between being a "hero" and an immature jerk. If you enjoyed Ender's Game, skip this read and save yourself some disappointment.
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Summary: Character whose sense of duty makes him unbearable
Review: If it weren't for the main character Seafort, I would probably finish this series. But since this "hero" is apparently never going to grow beyond being an unlikable and ridiculous child, I will gratefully move on to some other author's work...a writer who understands the difference between being a "hero" and an immature jerk. If you enjoyed Ender's Game, skip this read and save yourself some disappointment.
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