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Stephen Chambers (1)

Author of The Hope's End (Vel Chronicles)

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Gave up circa page 90. To then, it was half bog-standard traditional fantasy, half extreme exercise in style, never both at the same time. The fantasy lacked shine (absence of details, info-dumped worldbuilding, ho-hum orphan-of-prophecy) and the parts where the writing became vivid and visceral lacked coherence. The protagonist was selfish, lazy and obnoxious, without the charisma (or internal conflict) to make it work anyway, and his hooks into the plot were tenuous and happenstance. The links to "our earth" were not intriguing enough to pull me through all the rest of it.… (more)
 
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cupiscent | 1 other review | Aug 3, 2019 |
The surviving human colony on Hope is barely clinging to survival: a fearsome plague kills hundreds, the harvest is too small, and the leaders are increasingly crazy and/or fascist. Vel, an annoying, whiny, privileged little idiot who thinks he's very clever indeed, gets caught up in dangerous machinations because he's secretly related to the royal family. The author clearly hadn't thought very hard about how the colony worked, and his laziness showed. Hope is a dreadfully inconsistant place. This, coupled with my dislike of Vel, led me to give up on this book about halfway through.… (more)
 
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wealhtheowwylfing | 1 other review | Feb 29, 2016 |
Stephen Chambers has produced a readable book about a neglected aspect of early American history. He explains how U.S. economic growth and westward expansion depended on Cuban illegal slavery. He provides evidence of how wealthy Northern businessmen infiltrated state and national government, shaped U.S. foreign policy, and used the U.S. Navy for pecuniary gain. Chambers argues that the Monroe Doctrine was created to protect the illegal slave trade. An interesting and revealing read that illustrates how business, politics, foreign policy, and slavery were intertwined.… (more)
 
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mitchellray | Sep 15, 2015 |

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