Rating: Summary: Just when you think the guilt can't get deeper... Review: A great book that pulls you in. If you read the series consectutively, you'll wonder what kind of situation could be worse in the next book than what Seafort has done in the present book. And how Feintuch can pull it off. But he does, and Seafort's hold on sanity just comes that much looser.Seafort's flashbacks flows from past to present smoothly, and there's always a connection there. You learn more about his past than you do in the previous books. And there's also a twist on the end that's sure to suprise suprise. It may (or may not) make you look at the the previous series a bit differently.
Rating: Summary: Outstanding series Review: I feel an almost guilty pleasure in liking this series, but I really enjoyed this book and all the others in the Seafort Saga. The books are great for the adolescent or the adolescent in each of us that sees things in absolutes and good and evil and right and wrong. Nice exploration of the puritan soul plagued by guilt. Also good action etc.
Rating: Summary: A book that H.G Well's should had wrote ages ago. Review: I have described this greatest Naval space adventure truly the one to read, this is a good graphic adventure. Nicholas Seafort, A heroic commander of his galactic NAVY and hero to his crew memebers has flash backs as his days as a cadet in the Naval academy. But Seafort is drawn into deep danger, as he enters a cosmic apocalypse doing battle against an alien threat defending the moon colony of Lunerpolis. This could his be his final battle...
Rating: Summary: excellent Review: i loved this book. it had everything you could want. young branstead was the perfect replacement for derek. i especially loved the afterward bye derek. it touched me.
Rating: Summary: Belay that whining, Seafort! Review: I must say that by this point in the Seafort Saga, Seafort's whining is just getting to be too much. Admitedly, he has reason to whine - he is the most improbably unlucky man in the universe. Everything that can be dumped onto him is, and by the time I was done this volume, I had had quite enough. Once again Seafort behaves badly to save the day - for the third book in a row (though his "damning" behaviour in Challeger's Hope is really just a problem in his own head, IMHO). So while this one was not a favorite, the series is still worth sticking with - Voices of Hope is very good, and has far less of Nick Seafort in it, and none of his guilt-ridden internal dialogue.
Rating: Summary: Belay that whining, Seafort! Review: I must say that by this point in the Seafort Saga, Seafort's whining is just getting to be too much. Admitedly, he has reason to whine - he is the most improbably unlucky man in the universe. Everything that can be dumped onto him is, and by the time I was done this volume, I had had quite enough. Once again Seafort behaves badly to save the day - for the third book in a row (though his "damning" behaviour in Challeger's Hope is really just a problem in his own head, IMHO). So while this one was not a favorite, the series is still worth sticking with - Voices of Hope is very good, and has far less of Nick Seafort in it, and none of his guilt-ridden internal dialogue.
Rating: Summary: emotional rollercoaster ride Review: I read 4 of the books in the series in less than a week without stopping and evertime I finished one I always felt like I'd just been punched in the guts. There are a couple of problems that prevented me from letting me give it a 10, like the navy of the future being very much like a navy of 100-200 years ago in the past (regression?), but in emotional context, this series rates more than 10. It's rare that you get a hero that takes full personal recriminations for executing correct but hard decisions. The fact that everbody else took him for a hero just hits him even harder. This book started out a bit slow, but the climax and ending has got to be the best. What is the most unforgivable sin of all? Lying and sending children to their deaths to save Earth. I wandered around in a daze for days afterwards thinking of it.
Rating: Summary: Good book Review: I read Fisherman's Hope and I liked it alot. There are a few things that I didn't like. When you pic up a good action book, you don't expect the action right away. With this one, I expected the same. But instead the action came in at chapter 21. Almost at the end of the book. I would have expected a good beginning and plot. Instead I got a very long and almost boring beginning. On the other hand I read a very well written book. Feintuch diggs and diggs into Seafort's life and past, almost making the character real, like you would have known him all his life. You also get to know the other characters as well. Excellent dialog and word choice. Overall, a good book of action, romance, strategy and of course, Sci-fi! Not just a sci-fi novel. A compilation of styles for all tastes.
Rating: Summary: Definately the best of the Seafort Saga Review: I've read all four books in this series, getting them as soon as they reached the bookstores...and this is by far Feintuch's greatest creation yet...a definate masterpiece...the whole book, especially the end where Seafort had to send his cadets to die to save humanity from the aliens was magnificant...Overall:A great read that no sci-fi reader should miss.
Rating: Summary: More angst-ridden adventure with Nick Seafort Review: If there's one thing you can say about the Hope series, it's that Feintuch manages to grow the characters but still manages to keep their basic premises intact. Nicholas Seafort's ongoing quest for honor and redemption continues here where he becomes an instructor at the Lunar academy where he earned his commission. The story is gripping and the final outcome was not what I expected at all. Great stuff!
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