Customer Reviews

Of Fire and Night - Saga of Seven Suns #5

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(1)
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If these first four chapters are any indication, Of Fire and Night should be an excellent and exciting novel. July, 2006 can't come around quick enough!

I loved the preview, and I cannot wait for the book. I do hate the fact that we will have to wait 2 more years for books 6 & 7. UGH!!

I think the reviewer before me is speaking out of turn since they have obviously not read the 1st 4 books of the series. You cannot come in to a series at book 5 and expect to enjoy it or know anything about what is happening.

First, even though I gave this short only three stars I really did like it. But it had shortcomings. I just found out about Amazon shorts so I wanted to try one out. I like science fiction so I just picked out one more or less at random from that category. Now I wish I had given more thought to it and picked out another one. For one thing I tend to wonder why so many science fiction writers envision the future as a return to mediaeval feudalism. It appears to me that that kind of social organization is as dead as ancient slavocracy and it is an annoyance to me when I start reading a tale about a galactic empire and find it populated with princes and other royalty doing battle with the evil upstart from the peasantry. So what am I faced with in the opening paragraph of this story? A king. Then I am taken immediately into a ferocious battle with various varieties of less than credible aliens. However, I did not give it as many as three stars because I completely hated the story. I will say that the action took off right away with no fooling around. There is an action packed space battle that is quite exciting and leaves me expecting more when the rest of the book is published. Despite the fact that it is somewhat annoying it is a fun read. But it is only fun. There is not much that is profound or cerebral about it. And I am not prone to recommend something without some kind of profundity or quality that would make me think. This short is only the beginning chapters of the book itself. So would I read it after the entire novel is published? Yes. Would I pay the full price of a new copy for it? No. Would I buy a reasonably priced used copy? Possibly, but I think I would rather borrow it from the library. Would I give it a high priority when it becomes available from the public library? No, I would wait until I had some time to kill with some light reading entertainment.