Defender of the Empire Cadet #1 eBook Catherine Beery
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Welcome to the Spectral Empire—a galactic empire enfolding hundreds of colony worlds governed by the Twenty-Five Prime Worlds, who are in turn ruled by the Imperial Council and the Emperor. It is a society of great advancement, but broken and under threat.
My name is Rylynn Sinclair of Colony Lenti. I lived there with my Aunt Sylvie for as long as I can remember. We were by no means rich, but we were happy. We had a roof over our heads and food on the table. So what if the neighbor was a mean drunk and I was often bullied by the resident gang? I had a home.
My simple life had a hole blown into it when I was thirteen. My home was destroyed the day before the mercenary scourge of the Empire came. War—in all but name—had begun. And because certain interests were left alone, no help was forthcoming from our noble Prime World. Survival became the only playable card. When I saw that my group of hopeful escapees was in danger of being killed by a pair of hunting Telmicks, I traded my life for their chance to escape.
And that is when everything went really weird. I was saved and given a new life as a cadet in the illustrious Legion Fleet Academy, in a position never before held by a mere colonist. Not only that, I became involved in the Admiral’s Competition. And to add to the weirdness that my life had become, I started hearing voices—many voices. Some helpful, others just cryptic. And all of this on top of being the only witness to a serial killer.
Defender of the Empire Cadet #1 eBook Catherine Beery
I was enchanted by the first few chapters. A shame really that the author failed to use the same care on the rest book. It feels more like that the rest has been written in one go without any forethought, any snags developing in the plot simply addressed by solutions a 5 year old would find hard to stomach. In combination with the unacceptable cliffhanger at the end this will keep me from buying any more works by this author.A shame really as the author seems to be able to write well, as shown in the first few chapters.
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Defender of the Empire Cadet #1 eBook Catherine Beery Reviews
This is a coming of age SF novel. But it's like watching a train wreck in slow motion, It is not all bad and I did finish the book but there is alot of silliness in the book. For example a pilot mentioning how he likes to fly his ship at near light speed through the atmosphere. There are also a few misspelled words. But again with all that I just had to turn the page with horror mixed with glee to see what next silliness was in store for me and the characters. I will probably look at the next book in the series and maybe even buy it. Normally when I read a bad book it doesn't hold my interest, yet somehow this one did and I'm wasn't even drunk. So I'm giving this book three stars and a word of warning, I'm not sure what that word of warning should be but I'll let you figure it out.
Ms. Beery is in an exclusive club. She is one of a handful of authors who, these days, can write a story that makes me want to come back to it as soon as possible, warts and all.
I am a sixty year old man with strongly engrained habits. One of those habits is reading for a short time before hitting the rack, a habit I picked up shortly after graduating from college. In the last thirty-five years I've read a lot of SF, enough to become quite opinionated on what constitutes a good read. And, alas, I have also come to the point where most of what I read, no matter how much the author pours his soul into the making, is merely mediocre.
This book, however, was not that way. It was fun! Thirteen year old Rylynn plunges from one adventure to the next in a riveting story where the bad guys are after her and somehow she must evade their evil clutches to save the empire. And what's more, she has to do this while navigating the first month at the Legion Academy and suffering the scorn of her fellow students because she is a colonist from a colonist world. A page-turner, this book has a disaster a page, and they keep getting worse and worse, but fear not! Our heroine, with the steadfast support of thee human friends and another five "spectrals" is up to the challenge. And in the end, she makes the bad guys rue the day they were born.
So why only four stars? I debated a lower rating, but decided doing so would be an injustice to the roller-coaster plot line which kept me riveted to my chair despite the frequent wordcraft errors. Well there *were* a goodly number of distractions. First of all, for a thirteen year old, Rylynn swears *a lot.* Oh the words aren't all that vulgar, but they are enough to off-put someone who expects children to be a bit more controlled in their language. And I was expecting a better use of language from an author who publicly proclaims her praise of the Creator for letting her write these stories. (I would provide examples but these days has gotten really fussy about including them even with their middle letters substituted with underscores.)
Secondly, as mentioned by others, Rylynn is just waay to young to be acting the way she is. Comparing her to another character, Tavi, from the Chronicles of Alera by Jim Butcher, she feels older than fifteen year old Tavi (first book only), yet she kept reporting her age as a mere "thirteen cycles."
And finally, though her story was fun as a rocket ride, her word craft was utterly atrocious. Her most common mistake was using a homonym in place of the correct word, for example, "currant" designating a kind of fruit, instead of "current" designating "present event." (Okay, okay ... not exactly a homonym, but you get my drift, I hope.) These mistakes were so common that I got to the point where it felt like I was seeing them three per page, but the real ratio was more like one per couple of pages.
She also has problems with punctuation. For example placing commas just before the quote like so
James said, "I'm going home." (correct way)
was not how she constructed her story. I also found a number of passages where double-quote use was poor or non-existent, where ample periods were used when not needed and where plain old spelling errors jarred me out of the story for the slightest of moments.
In the end I got a strong feeling that Ms. Beery is still quite a young writer--not just young in experience, but also young chronologically. That is belied somewhat by the number of books she has written, but a writer in her early twenties might have written that quantity if she started out at age seventeen (like Christopher Paolini, though he started out at age 15). If she can rectify her lack of professional word craft, then I fully expect maturity to make her stories even better and much more complex than her current fare. I am really expecting a treat when that happens!
So. Will I buy the next book? You bet! This series is just too fun to let be. Does Ms. Beery need to improve on her word craft? Without a doubt. If she does, or if she finds a partner who can act as her editor, someone who really knows his or her stuff so that the silly mistakes she is making can be fixed, then these stories will very definitely hit the big time, big time!
I bought this book a bit on a whim because it popped up in my recommendations and it appeared to be the kind of story that I usually like. The story revolves about a few rather young characters. Very young indeed if the term cycles are anything near the years on Earth. The story is also very simplistic, adventurous and fairly unbelievable which is why I personally would classify this book as Young Adult.
The book starts off by trying to set the backstory for the rest of the book but there is not much world building. Throughout the book we never really get much information about things, just that Earth is gone, that humanity now is ruled by an emperor and that there are mysterious energy based entities around. These entities lives bound to a human and seems to manifest themselves as animals. Sounded a bit like The Golden Compass to me.
To basic story is not really bad. However, it is very simplistically implemented. Rylynn’s adventures are quite unbelievable especially taken into account the very short timespan in which the story takes place. The logic of the actions falters from time to time and anything like actual science and military strategy is mostly absent. The characters are generally rather shallow and I never really felt that I took that much liking to any of them, including Rylynn.
Having said that, it is not really a bad book, just perhaps a bit more for the not so experienced reader. It is a pleasant enough adventure and I have read a lot worse books. Not sure I will bother picking up a second book if one comes out though.
This was a very confusing story for me. Few of the characters behaved as expected for how they were introduced. An older adult secret agent morphs himself into a fifteen year old boy to hang around a thirteen year old girl who acts like an adult. The same thirteen year old girl who in a few weeks morphs from a protected child to an alien fighting street rat to a cadet who can't handle rejection from girls her age who think her their social inferior, so that she befriends a twelve year old prince who has disguised himself to blend with the common folk. Secret agent, prince, and girl win a contest in space fighting skills against people who have been training for years after one weeks training. If that run on sentence wasn't confusing, read the book, you will enjoy it.
I gave it three stars because the book was full of HUH??? moments that made me go back and re-read whole sections. I feel I got three books worth out of it. I will not be reading the sequels.
I was enchanted by the first few chapters. A shame really that the author failed to use the same care on the rest book. It feels more like that the rest has been written in one go without any forethought, any snags developing in the plot simply addressed by solutions a 5 year old would find hard to stomach. In combination with the unacceptable cliffhanger at the end this will keep me from buying any more works by this author.
A shame really as the author seems to be able to write well, as shown in the first few chapters.
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