Alien Hunters

Honestly?

There's an amusing juxtaposition of fantasy stereotypes writ large upon a standard Space-Opera.

Sure, I love the musician gig, the chase, the big ship reveals, the wild assortment of strange characters especially a certain little gas-guzzling demon, the big pincers on the big evil alien spacecraft....

But it's all kinda... standard? I love my stereotypes, but this one is pretty much what I think of when I think of Standard Space-Opera. Like it might have been a pretty good and traditional flashy Sci-Fi movie that I'd pretty much forget after having a pretty good time.

Fun and flashy and gone? Pretty much. Fast-paced, clear, and amusing.

Let's have some fun!

Pretty good and not too predictable

This was a fun read with well developed characters. They still felt a bit D&D meets Firefly but I enjoyed it. All the love triangle or possible love triangles got a little annoying and Dad’s (god by machine) appearance at the end felt both tacked on and rushed but it is what it is. A solid good story and I loved Steel and Nova’s friendship. Riff is a Han Solo wannabe. The names are on the nose in a campy sort of way. After reading through this review it sounds like I didn’t like this book. Not true. If I didn’t like it I would not have finished it.

The demon cracked me up. Totally not like demons in other books. I loved the unusual characters in this book. Looking forward to the rest of the series.

I bought this book as part of a bundle and had no expectations of it going in, but it turned out to be tons of fun! I'll definitely be interested in reading more about this cast of characters in future.

DNF - nothing about this book excited me to even get past page 30...
part of galactic empires, edited by patty jansen