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The tags for A Galaxy Unknown read adventure aliens, epic, future, science fiction, space, Action & Adventure, Sagas, and War & Military. A fairly standard set of tags, but being comparatively tame subject matter has never stopped me from a purchase before and I wasn't about to let it now; and if I were you I wouldn't let it stop me either.
I liked the cover art, and yes I'm one of those. (In my opinion the cover is one of the first things you see about a book, and isn't there a saying somewhere about the importance of first impressions and all that?)
And the synopsis got a chuckle out of me with Gloria's interpretation of Jenetta's battle plan. (Again a little overdone, but why invent a new wheel when you can make the old one work like new?)
These three reasons lead me to the purchase of this engaging piece of work( the .99 special didn't harm it either), and I don't think I could have picked a better introduction to my recently delivered kindle. I started the book just intending to try it out to get the feel of weather I would like the kindle or not, and nine hours later I had just finished the book with two and a half hours left till I had to be at work. Needless to say I enjoyed the book immensely. While allot of the subject matter wasn't wholly original it didn't feel plagiarized or beaten to death by previous incarnations. In all the book just worked as a coherent whole that practically begged to be read.
Now for the criticism. *spoilers*
There are only 3 things that ever really pulled me out of the story.
The first being that the dialog between Gloria and Jenetta seemed to become a little strained once Jenetta became Captain.
Secondly, the conversations that Janetta has with other ships could get kind of jarring with them having to "wait" between correspondences. (I realize that non-faster-than-light communications is part of the setting, but it seems there must be some way to make the long distance conversations not so fitful.)
Finally, at the beginning of the novel it was stressed that Jenetta was such a clutz with little self confidence while in training, but as soon as that first attack starts she is all action. Where did all of those doubts and second guesses go? I realize that all of those battle simulators that she played while in the escape pod could have played a large part in dispelling those doubts, but they seemed to be passed off as something inconsequential when mentioned.
I give this book 5 Stars and recommend it to anyone who happens to find their way to this page.
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"A Galaxy Unknown" Overview
June 6th, 2267 - A life-pod, missed by rescuers following the mysterious explosion of a Space Command vessel a decade earlier, is discovered by a passing freighter in deep space. A young officer, still cocooned in stasis sleep, is found inside. When revived, Ensign Jenetta Carver learns of the lawlessness that now suffuses interstellar space. Pirates and slavers seem able to attack and pillage with impunity. Space Command has committed its full resources to stopping the anarchy, but criminal groups have grown immensely powerful.
Although determined to rejoin SC as soon as possible, Jenetta is captured by pirates before that can happen. At first she fears for her life, but when she's indelibly marked as a pleasure slave, she gets mad; fighting mad. And when they tamper with her DNA to make her appear sexier, she gets even madder; killing mad.
Can a petite blonde, cut off from Space Command, create more mayhem among the criminal elements than a full decade of SC effort? You'd better believe it!
From the back cover:
For all of her young life, Jenetta Carver had dreamed of cruising between the stars in a powerful spaceship, but nothing in her visions of a bright future even remotely resembled the perilous situation she now faced.
Lt. Sabella, her face slightly flushed from physical exertion, returned from her task of readying the ship’s weapons and crossed the bridge to stand by the left arm of Jenetta’s command chair. “What’s the plan, Captain?” she asked. Though an anxious look swathed her face, there was unmistakable resoluteness in her voice.
Jenetta breathed in deeply and then released it before answering in a voice lowered so that it only carried to her XO. “We’re going to have to slash and burn,” she replied.
“Slash and burn?” Gloria questioned, equally sotto voce.
“We don’t yet know what we’re facing, so we can’t prepare anything tactically sophisticated. We certainly won’t be able to arrange for a convenient artificial mountain as cover this time, and it’s a given that whatever Raider ships we’re about to face are considerably better armed than we are. So— surprise will perforce serve as our main weapon. I intend to slash our way in with as much speed as practicable, dump our envelope, and then burn down any enemy ships that we encounter before they can do the same to us.”
“That’s it?” Gloria asked, wide-eyed. “That’s your whole plan? Shoot them before they shoot us?”
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