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title: "Sol Shall Rise (The Pike Chronicles Book 1)"
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# Sol Shall Rise (The Pike Chronicles Book 1)

**Brand:** g. p. hudson
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## Customer Reviews

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    An interesting premise, but it profoundly FAILS in its execution I'm sad to say.... NOT for the serious SciFi aficionado ...
  

*by W***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 31, 2015*

I bought this three book series based on the "Sample" of the first book. I could not have been more surprised ... or frustrated. It was like the sample was written by one author and the rest of the books by another. The books did not live up to the sample. I've learned my lesson, and will no longer buy a whole series based on the sample.The more ebooks I read, the more it becomes clear ... the cheap books are self-published books that evidence a severe lack of editorial oversight ... by authors only fit to write for a pack of 9 year old children or those with I.Q. of a 9 year old. You get what you pay for ... the cheap books are CHEAP BOOKS, not worth reading to readers with an interest in serious quality SciFi.Overall, I think I would have to give this series a two or three stars ... an interesting premise ... a twist on the normal SciFi "Space Opera" ... but in my opinion, the books were:1) just rife with things that had not the first glimmer of an explanation ... "What's up with THAT????",2) a "Deus Ex Machina" count that was just through the ceiling) ... countless examples of a group JUST ABOUT to be exterminated ... AND THEN ...3) an uncompleted storyline (I felt as though there should have been 4 or 5 books to the series ... the last book ends right in the middle of the story with SO much was left unresolved) ... this was my biggest problem with the series. LOTS of action with NO resolution of ANYTHING ...4) too much that was just improbable,5) too many conceptual errors. A few examples:  a) attacks on armor that eventually wear the armor down causing "fissures" ... where actual attacks on "modern" armor penetrate SMALL spots on VERY THICK armor, killing the crew with spalling or molten fragments, SELDOM causing massive system failures ... (a modern day RPG can penetrate 10-20 inches of ordinary armor.  b) attacks on tanks that "imploded" ... tanks DO NOT implode, etc.)  c) ships undefeated by FAST missiles are easily wiped out by slow moving atmospheric aircraft ... missiles DO move MUCH faster than aircraft do.  d) crew of one ship requires a mechanical translator to talk to another ship, but when that crew alight planetside, they pick up a local radio and use it without problems  e) computer systems between two sets of humans separated by 500 years mesh perfectly without error  f) spaceships of one set of humans interface flawlessly with the docking areas of a station of another set of humans ... ... it seems to me that docking interfaces would be extremely specific and i think it highly improbably that this would happen so seamlessly, between two sets of humans who have been separated by 500 years6) Bad use of the English language, formatting and spelling errors ... all of which indicate a lack of editorial oversight,7) Foolish oversights. Ex: in one instant an alien is being stabbed in his face ... in the next the alien throws off his attacker FROM HIS BACK ... how do you stab someone in his face when you're on his back?I know i'm picking at details here, but when these details are either in error or HIGHLY improbable, or just not well thought out ... page after page after page ... it's apparent that the author knows very little about the military or actual combat ... nor does he know much about science ... if you can't do the SCIENCE, then you shouldn't be doing the FICTION ... isn't that what SciFi is about? I found myself skipping large sections of text, just HOPING that things would get better. Unfortunately, the further the (rather short) series went, the worse it got.I finished the whole series ... and it COULD have been a GREAT series ... but there was just too much WRONG with it ... and it was SUCH an inadequately finished series ... i just can't recommend this HIGHLY ... it's OK ... just not very GOOD.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Good 'stuff' reading.
  

*by J***A on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 28, 2016*

I liked this book a lot. Reminds me of light (not hard) sci-fi written in the 1970s -- it has the same sort of urgency, character development, and sentences as a few books I remember from the time. The book is as detailed as it needs to be, but not overwhelming. I like the space the author leaves for the imagination to fill gaps. It's a simple read, but difficult to put down. I read the second and am starting the third. So look for my reviews on those pages.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    It started out ok but ended weak.
  

*by R***. on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 16, 2015*

I really liked the story in the beginning.  We have a special ops person, enhanced like no other human has ever been enhanced by alien technology.  Humans develop the Jump Drive system, allowing their ships to go huge distances with using Jump Gates.  A great thing.  In someone's finite wisdom, they decide to make our Special Ops hero the Captain of our Jump Ship.  This is where the story takes a nose dive.The Jump ship goes on it's maiden voyage to find other Human Colones and bring them into the Galactic Accord (Or just to build up Human strength) and is attacked by the big, bad enemy, who just happen to have the same Jump Ship technology.  So, we have a traitor(s) in the command structure.  Nothing wrong with that, kind of figured that would happen given the mankind had been conquered by this enemy for over 500 years and quislings are bound the be there.We have our battle, and our ship Jumps away after basically fighting to a draw.  What does the ship find?  Humans, trying to kill them.  Eh, works for me, nothing wrong with that.  It's what happens next that drops the book for me.  The Captain gets all emotional about finding other Humans and defending them of another alien race that is a slaver race.  Ignoring the fact that the Humans have been playing Space Viking against this other species via another Jump Gate that the aliens don't know about.  I don't want to put spoilers in it but I wasn't really happy with the Captains overall actions.They do however set the stage for book two which I will read because I want to see how it all ends up.Besides what I think is a poorly designed story in some respects, I like the political intrigue, the Human/Alien interactions and the widening scope of the story.  Lots of movement in just a few hundred pages.

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