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Chargement... The Silver Shipspar S.H. Jucha
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  jdesjardins | Oct 9, 2023 |   Gave up with just 2 hours left on audible book. All talk, talk, talk and nothing happening. Main character could do no wrong. All the good guys were tall and beautiful. Aliens that attacked ship have not been seen or heard in 70 years, so our heroes slowly and I do mean slowly prepare for the next encounter. Really tried to finish this and wish I'd given up a lot earlier. (  ) larocco | Sep 6, 2023 |  ) Faltiska | Apr 30, 2022 | I tried. I really tried. I almost never DNF a book this early--and I rarely DNF books at all--but this one was only getting more and more frustrating. Unfortunately, this book suffers from many first-novel mistakes, but to an Nth degree. The hero is flawless, and everybody loves him--though we can't quite tell why, because he's so perfectly heroic and flawless that, as readers, we want him to be knocked off his pedestal. There's a lack of action and conflict, the characters are unfailingly polite to each other, and clear questions related to plot/motivation go entirely ignored. As frustratingly, so much is told vs. shown, with the really interesting moments being summarized rather than explored, that it feels like we're getting the cliffnotes of what might have been an interesting story, vs. being allowed to engage with it. Most of the issues here are common enough first-novel issues, but when piled together into one book that suffers some from some serious flaws in plotting and characterization, they make for an incredibly difficult read. I hope that the writer employed a developmental editor and worked on improving his craft in future books, but I'm afraid I won't be trying another book by the author. ( ) whitewavedarling | Jun 27, 2021 | Alex has been moving asteroids with his space ship for some time when he finds an alien craft in distress and decides to make contact with it. This was an interesting space opera, mostly in the first half though. I enjoyed the part were Alex and the AI from the other craft are together the best. Once the rest of the surviving crew was revived the story became a lot more generic. However, it did have some interesting themes. In the novel two different civilization have arisen from different space ships that fled the earth. In the time that has passed, they grown into quite distinct civilizations, making the others feel 'alien' even though they are actually human. The silver ships referenced in the title most likely refer to some actual non-human aliens, which we'll probably encounter in the next book. While this book was far from perfect and ended exactly like one would expect, I am curious enough to read at least the second book in the series as well. The Silver Ships is the first book in the Silver Ships series. The second book Libre has just been released! Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review! ( ) Floratina | Dec 7, 2019 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieThe Silver Ships (1)
An explorer-tug captain, Alex Racine spends years in space, harvesting ice asteroids for New Terran’s water-hungry outposts. His existence is both routine and solitary...until his ship’s computer detects a damaged alien craft drifting into system. Recognizing a once in a lifetime opportunity to make first contact, Alex pulls off a daring maneuver to latch on to the derelict. When Alex boards the Rêveur, he encounters the ship’s AI. The entire craft is riddled with holes, damage that could only have come from a fight. While confronting the AI for answers, Alex is shocked to learn that eighteen survivors, trapped in stasis, are on board. Like the New Terrans, the Méridiens are human—both settlements originating from colony ships sent from a dying Earth—but oddly the Méridiens’ technology is hundreds of years ahead, which makes their story all the more terrifying. The Rêveur was attacked by an unknown craft, the first of its kind ever encountered. The mysterious silver ship made no contact before firing its beam weapon, and its attack was both instant and deadly. Intrigued by the Méridiens’ story, and even more so by their leader, the exotic Renée de Guirnon, Alex decides to help them repair their ship and return home...but not without the means to protect themselves. For, he was haunted by one thought: where there was one, there might be many. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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and darn it I fell in love. My TBR is toast (