Duel in the Dark (Blood on the Stars, #1)

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A New Adventure by the Author of the Bestselling Crimson Worlds and Far Stars series The Confederation has fought three wars against the forces of the totalitarian Union Three generations of its warriors have gone off to war, held the line against the larger, powerful enemy Now the fourth conflict is imminent, and the Confederation s navy is on alert, positioned behind the frontier, waiting for the attack it knows is coming The battleship Dauntless has spent the past ten months patrolling the border, deployed far forward of the main fleet, a forlorn hope, an advance guard positioned to give the warning of invasion But no attack has come Her crew is exhausted, and the aging battleship needs maintenance With the fleet mobilized and the forward bases overloaded beyond capacity, she is sent clear across the Confederation, to a planet along the quiet and peaceful far frontier Her crew is looking forward to a rest, and Dauntless herself is scheduled for a long overdue maintenance session But the quiet frontier isn t what it seems and when a distress call is received from one of the mining colonies on the edge of Confederation space, it falls to Captain Tyler Barron to take Dauntless forward, to find out what is happening, and to put a stop to it Barron and his crew have their ship and each other but they can expect no other help Suspicion is strong that Union deceit is at play, that the attack is some sort of diversion, intended to draw Confederation forces from the disputed border The orders are clear No ships will be transferred from the prospective battle line Stopping whatever is happening on the rim is Barron s responsibility, and his alone Barron is the grandson of the Confederation s great hero, the father of the modern navy His family name has always carried privilege with it, and crushing responsibility And now he must prove that he has inherited from his famous grandfather than name and privilege He must face the enemy, and win the victory before the Confederation is caught between two enemies and destroyed Blood on the Stars Reading Order Book 1 Duel in the Dark Book 2 Call to Arms January 2017, Available now for preorder Read Duel in the Dark (Blood on the Stars, #1) – kino-fada.fr 5 Big fat Stars I tell you So normally I do not write my reviews with details of the actual story, as most of my GR friends all ready know that the story is about Rather, I focus on what my personal feelings are about the book I am going to change that a bit for this one, as it is not yet a widely read book in my circles and I think that needs to change.So here goes There are three super powers The Alliance, a warrior breed who escaped slavery 2 generati...In the genre of military scifi, this was a 5 I ve come across a lot of military scifi books lately that are really space adventures that happen to have a gun fight or 2 embedded This book is militiary scifi and a good one at that The book revolves around 3 distinct groups occupying various star systems Each a neighbor of the other You view from the perspective of each, the need to defend each group s intere...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here Marking this as spoilers even if I tried to avoid them, enough slipped through.A relative generic Military Science Fiction book And comparative weak and inconsistent on the science parts Pretty much the entire plot was telegraphed from the very beginning, who couldn t tell how everything would end including that one important character death within the first 50 pages must be new to this genre Writing it in detail from both sides might have given insight into the enemy character, but at th Marking this as spoilers even if I tried to avoid them, enough slipped through.A relative generic Military Science Fiction book And comparative weak and inconsistent on the science parts Pretty much the entire plot was telegraphed from the very beginning, who couldn t tell how everything would end including that one important character death within the first 50 pages must be new to this genre Writing it in detail from both sides might have given insight into the enemy character, but at the same time took a lot of tension out of the book The reader always knows just what the other side is up to There is also the very generic naming of the political entities An Alliance, a Union and a Confederation Those are shorthands, but we are never told full names, even in places where it would have been appropriate Also the naming itself A good Confederation facing of a bad Union maybe I m reading too much...The book starts by following two different storylines, one onboard the Alliance ship Vindictus and the other on the Confederate battleship Dauntless I really don t like this way of starting a book, jumping backwards and forwards between two different stories Eventually they merge as it becomes clear that there will be a showdown between the two main protagonists, Tyler and Kat.It appears that many people like the way the author devotes equal space to these two leading characters, but I didn t The book starts by following two different storylines, one onboard the Alliance ship Vindictus and the other on the Confederate battleship Dauntless I really don t like this way of starting a book, jumping backwards and forwards between two different stories Eventually they merge as it becomes clear that there will be a showdown between the two main ... had a deal on the first six books in the series because the seventh one is coming out, and I like military scifi so why not Welcome to the future, a future of war Galactic civilization has fallen after setting up a network of FTL routes, and the technology for building new ones have been lost Three major powers have risen in the aftermath The Confederation are our good guys, a democracy with an independent streak that is regarded as soft by the enemy, but which has survived three exishad a deal on the first six books in the series because the seventh one is coming out, and I like military scifi so why not Welcome to the future, a future of war Galactic civilization has fallen after setting up a network of FTL routes, and the technology for building new ones have been lost Three major powers have risen in the aftermath The Confederation are our good guys, a democracy with an independent streak that is regarded as soft by the enemy, bu...Duel in the Dark is a good start of a new series, Blood on the Stars, from Jay Allan It is an action filled story which essentially is a prelude to an all out war It has good world building, enjoyable characters and plenty of action.The underlying premise of the story is the all too common one, in fiction as well as in real life The Confederation has beaten the enemy once, actually three times, and once the threat seemed to be gone dumbass politicians have let their defense forces slip Why s Duel in the Dark is a good start of a new series, Blood on the Stars, from Jay Allan It is an action filled story which essentially is a prelude to an all out war It has good world building, enjoyable characters and plenty of action.The underlying premise of the story is the all too common one, in fiction as well as in real life The Confederation has beaten the enemy once, actually three times, and once the threat seemed to be gone dumbass politicians have let their defense forces slip Why spend mo...Cliched story with democratic republic vs some communist style micro state The politics in this book are black and white, and lack any nuance Jerry Pournelle showed, years ago, that science fiction is better when the political environment is realistic The main characters are better a decent attempt has been made to give them depth, but they still feel shallow I suspect this has improved over the following 7 books in the series My biggest issue is that both of the main protagonists are pres Cliched story with democratic republic vs some communist style micro state The politics in this book are black and white, and lack any nuance Jerry Pournelle showed, years ago, that science fiction is better when the political environment is realistic The main characters are better a decent attempt has been made to give them depth, but they still feel shallow I suspect this has improved over the following 7 books in the series My biggest issue is that both of the main protagonis...A disappointing readI don t write many reviews because I read a lot of books, but I read the reviews everyone who gave it 4 5 stars and the book is truly over rated I was probably about 70 pages in when I realized how unoriginal this work is, in fact spoiler alert the scene where the two captains face each other at the end before one self destructs is straight out of the original Star Trek series where Capt Kirk faces off against the Romulans Balance of Terror Of course if you want anot A disappointing readI don t write many reviews because I read a lot of books, but I read the reviews everyone who gave it 4 5 stars and the book is truly over rated I was probably about 70 pages in when I realized how unoriginal this work is, in fact spoiler alert the scene where the two captains face each other at the end before one self destructs is straight out of the original Star Trek series where Capt Kirk faces off against t...Great readI have fully enjoyed reading this book, we see two battleships captains going head to head On one can be the winner.A human empire which spanned the galaxy fell, worlds and systems were left orphaned, blasted to their bedrock or wiped from memory but far on the rim a few worlds retained some of their technology and new societies began to form.A few centuries after the cataclysm powers vie for dominance on the rim of the galaxy, the democratic Confederation and the totalitarian Union have fought three wars already each won by the confederation but the union is once again ready for another assault but first the A human empire which spanned the galaxy fell, worlds and systems were left orphaned, blasted to their bedrock or wiped from memory but far on the rim a few worlds retained some of their technology and new societies began to form.A few centuries after the cataclysm powers vie for dominance on the rim of the galaxy, the democratic Confederation and the totalitarian Union have fought three wars already each won by the confederation but the union is once again ready for another assault but first they offer an open hand to the Alliance the young upstart militaristic society The Alliance send one battleship into Confederation space to secure a major resource, if they succeed a full assault could be on the cards to secure a large portion of the rim before the Union can achieve their aim...

Duel in the Dark (Blood on the Stars, #1)
  • English
  • 16 December 2017
  • Kindle Edition
  • 370 pages
  • Jay Allan
  • Duel in the Dark (Blood on the Stars, #1)