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The Lost Starship Audible – Unabridged

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What I would have liked to know before I bought this book.

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1. What type of book is it: adventure, action, drama, etc? Initially I thought it would be a military sci-fi space opera. It is not. This is a sci-fi space adventure.

2. What is the story about, in general? The story is about the difficulties Agent Maddox and his team face as they search for a legendary ship that might have the technology to give humanity a fighting chance against the unstoppable New Men.

3. What/Who is the target audience? Teenagers and young adults seem to be the target audience. There is something for adults as well, but not much. On top of that, those that like space-adventures might find the book enjoyable.

4. How is the proofreading? It is pretty good. I saw only two errors and I think they were more kindle format problems than actual editing and proofreading mistakes.

5. Is there character development? Yes and no.

Romance wise, this volume leaves a lot to be desired. Any romance was abrupt, badly implemented and uninteresting. There was no build up to it. There was no growth. It felt very superfluous.

On other character aspects, I am well satisfied. None of the protagonists are automatically perfect. They have serious emotional issues, insecurities, desires, crippling faults and manias. The development of trust between the protagonists follows an impressively realistic timeline of character evolution steps. In short, character development gets its due in this book. It is not perfect (because nothing is), but better than a lot of attempts I've read.

Antagonists are incredibly one dimensional and illogical.
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Lost Starship is riddled with typos, poorly constructed sentences, strange punctuation and general basic errors. Sadly, this has become fairly forgivable in this Internet infested age.

More damning, however, the tale is poorly told. There are rules for these sorts of stories and Lost Starship breaks every one of them in the worst possible way. The characters are flat with superficial imperfections that only act as benefits (the main character is a half-breed that makes him...stronger, smarter and faster than every other human. What a burden!). The characters are merely pawns to the plot, acting in ways that are inexplicable except that they happen to service the story. Dialogue is stilted. Everyone speaks robotically.

The author also spends a good amount of time justifying his own plot holes then contradicting the very rules he spent a good amount of time establishing. There aren't twists, just inexplicable plot turns. Challenges appear illogically and are solved only with a wave of the magic plot wand. The book is a mess that could have used a few critiquing groups and probably several re-drafts.

Yet the bones of the story are solid. There's nothing new here, but stories are told over and over because they're good ones. Almost despite himself the author creates an interesting conflict that should have been so much more than it was. If I told you a spy, a clone thief, a drunk, and a disgraced war hero were going to escape a prison planet and hijack a legendary spaceship to fight all-powerful beings you'd think "wow, great story!"

Sadly, not so much.
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The premise of this book was somewhat interesting, but it was completely ruined by the execution and the shallow characters. The book was absolutely filled with grammatical errors and super-annoying complex sentences. It's never "Maddox punched her bare stomach with his left hand," it's always, "with his left hand, Maddox punched her bare stomach." The writing style was so annoying I had to struggle not to just give up reading the book and put it down for good. As it was, I could only get through 60% of the story before finally deciding that knowing how it ends would not be worth slogging through the clumsy writing.

The prose itself is also just boring and and commonplace. You read sentences like "Meta head-butted him, and if her forehead had connected with his nose, the fight would have been over." An author writing at a higher level would have made this more exciting, perhaps writing that "Meta snapped her forehead into his face, missing his nose by a fraction of an inch. Maddox was momentarily stunned by the force of the blow and he realized that if her strike had hit home he would have lost the fight."

It appears that the author has written quite a few novels and stories, but it still seems that he could benefit from more practice and a lot more reading. The editor absolutely dropped the ball on this one.
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Among the worst books that I have ever read. I liked the idea, although it is nothing really new. However, the execution was abysmal. I could barely force myself to finish the book.

The story ("New men" aspect) made no sense. The characters were cardboard, cliche and just plain unbelievable. Military SciFi aspect was ridiculous. No discipline, no consistency, no proper crew-captain behavior. In fact, Captain (Maddox) sexually harasses member of the crew (Meta) after she has been sworn into the Star Watch which supposedly has non-fraternisation rules. And of course, Meta fights with him to avoid being kissed only because she is afraid that such alpha male like Maddox will only hurt her, and eventually of course she stops fighting it after they reached Earth and spends short time with him which was the best time of her life. Vomit inducing.

I wish I could give this zero stars.
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