The Originator Wars - Universe in Danger

The entire Series keeps me coming back for more. On that note though, I may wait till I'm sure Mr Weil has completed it. It's hard to read another book...AND HE'S NOT FINISHED YET! Recommended as a fantastic read for anyone that enjoys some serious plot twists, aliens, battles of all sorts and the lives of the defenders of Humanity and the Universe as a whole!

The premise of the book was promising, but the execution fell well short. The writing style was too simplistic and contained many errors in grammar and vocabulary. Flow of the book was choppy, shifting awkwardly between the different story lines. Science and technology were mentioned gratuitously with very little explanation (soft sci-fi, at best). The author glibly has his protagonists traveling between galaxies using hyperdrive and super-duper intergalactic hyperdrive. He states that the Anti-life control thousands of galaxies. I'm sceptical that he has any perspective on the true scale of the distances involved. Not sure if I can wade through a second installment.

A very good start to the new series. Continues the story begun with the lost fleet. Many story lines are wrapped up and new ones started. If you like the author's other books, you'll enjoy this one. Very well thought out and consistent storyline and characters

Before you start this book, please note while this is touted as the first book of a new series it is really a new chapter of a continuing thread – you will need to have started at the beginning and read them all the way through or this one won’t make much sense to you: I would start with Moon Wreck: First Contact (Moon Wreck series Book 1) and read them all the way through.

This installment continues where the previous book ended, with a little bit of the usual action scenes but more of setting the foundation for this new thread. As is usual with other books in the series, the author has a writing style that makes you have a hard time putting it down and I stayed up really late one night to finish it. I’m ready for the next installment of the series.

I picked this up for $3.99 and I certainly received more than $3.99 worth of entertainment value out of this one. If you enjoyed the other books of the series I imagine you will like this one, also.

Excellent fast paced read and written as well as the last books in the storyline. However, I would wish for more character realism. Despite knowing this is all fiction, I can't help but think none of the main character relationships resemble anything believable. There are no fights. They all get along. There is very little worry. They finish each other's thoughts and sentences and it is mildly predictable and somewhat boring. No one dies, loses an arm despite unspeakable and unimaginable battles and no one gets sick or permanently injured. It's almost too much fluff. We all want a happy ending but we know life throws lots of curves and even in fiction there is a minimal level of believability needed particularly when dealing with human social structure and relationships.

Also, there isn't much that is unpredictable. Despite being hundreds of thousands of light years away the enemy draw the same conclusions as the main characters. A+B = C then rinse and repeat. Only the fantastic universe the author has built and the style and flow of writing makes the story really shine in all the books starting with Slaver Wars.

Regardless I will keep reading. It's a great story and the action sequences are great albeit somewhat repetitive.

Several concurrent story lines with exciting battles in each. One frustration for me was that the scouting expedition to look for the anti-life had no real plan for reporting back. And even when their first encounter showed the enemy much more advanced nothing was sent to report the critical information gained. Almost universally enemies are underestimated and assumed not to have advanced much with nearly disastrous consequences. Even the defense-spheres are deployed unchanged after the Eternals have shown they can easily destroy great swaths at a time. With all the info on enemy capabilities from previous battles more effort to adapt and more planning for enemy counter moves would only be prudent. Same issue arose with conqueror drones but was handle much better. Similarly after discovering anti-life Externals were much more advanced then assuming erroneously they could sneak in undetected, that the Externals wouldn't have similar or greater stealth capabilities, and then splitting forces despite enemy concentrations being larger were all suspense building but seemed too stupid to believe. Can't wait for the next book. Love this adventure.

Every author tempted to produce garbage this bad should be strapped to a chair and force-read Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style" until his ears bleed.

I counted twenty-seven spelling, wrong-word, punctuation, or grammar errors in the first four pages.

Just as an example (for Mr. Weil's edification), the wings you speak of at length belonging to one of your alien species, the wings that have atrophied and become useless and that are posited to disappear entirely, these are not "vestal" wings, but "vestigial" wings. Vestal is a reference to something related to the Roman deity "Vesta" and is most often encountered in the phrase "vestal virgin" which describes the four to six priestesses employed in Vesta's temple.

the store's bio of Raymond L. Weil says he "attended" Southwest Oklahoma State University with a major in mathematics and minors in creative writing and history.

"Attended" does not mean "graduated" and many schools require a declaration of major/minor intent upon registering as an incoming freshman, so I doubt that the statement in the bio is an outright lie, but from the skill level shown in his writing, I'd guess his actual education level to be somewhere between "dropped out after the seventh grade" and "squeaked by on a non-college-prep-track High School Diploma."

Clearly, he has had zero credible education (or native skill) as a writer unless the state of OSU's English Department has fallen so low as to pass anyone at any skill level through their system.

This thing is a waste of perfectly good electrons that could have been used to kill mink for the fur trade, heat oil for a deep-fat fryer in a fast-food joint to feed the morbidly obese, or any one of a number of things similarly of greater benefit to society.

This thing is just unbelievably awful and the fraudulent attempt to boost sales with fake reviews is execrable.

Fakespot shows 59.2% of the reviews of this item are "unreliable" (their polite word for fraudulent). If you go to their site and check, you'll need to refresh the data (which tells me that fake reviews are the more recent ones).

If there were a return policy for e-Books, I'd exercise it.

If this is what e-Publishing has come to, it might be time to burn the Kindle and move on.

A good read with humanity out in other galaxies. Another interesting addition was the inclusion of multiple peoples, some inhierantly good, others out to conquer the universe, a gallaxy at a time. I enjoyed the character development. I did however find quite a bit of wrong word useage and some sentences making absolutely no sense rather disconcerting. It interupted the flow, and at times I would be so stumped by a sentence, I would loose track of the story while spending too much time trying to figure out what was meant. The word missuse was much easier to quickly compensate for so I could easily continue reading. I do intend to keep reading this series!

There are too many disjointed story lines, too many characters, and the spans of time are too great to be believable. There's just too much of everything to make this a good book. You could split this in half, and run two different storylines in two books more successfully.

Additionally, the editor, if there was one, should have to pay back any income from their work on this. I don't think I've ever seen so many grammatical and punctuation errors in a published book. How do you spell so many names differently when they're separated by just a couple lines on the same page?

I won't be reading the rest of the series.

Raymond Weil keeps cranking out these military SF pieces. Lots of battles with evil aliens and a bit of human interest, too.
However...many of the characters are wooden and predictable.
That's OK up to a point as I don't expect much besides good vs. Evil.
My biggest problem is the sloppy editing. Repeated words, bad punctuation, improper use of personal pronouns, etc. These bring me to a full stop. It's more like a first draft than a finished work.
Earlier books in the extended series (Slaver Wars, for one) were much better edited.

Continues the sub-par saga of the not so special "Special Five". These spoiled brats are treated with undeserved reverence in a saga that is beneath the standard of an author whose works I usually enjoy very much. I heartily recommend anything this author writes other than books in which the Special Five appear. These characters and all those surrounding them are superficially drawn and the action is also very simplistic. Perhaps OK for un-fussy young teens, but not for adult readers.

If you thought you were skimming the surface of this novel, alas you have actually reached the bottom. The hundreds of characters are a bit juvenile and the technology is straight out of Star Trek, but there is plenty of intergalactic action. There are also tons of grammatical and spelling errors, but I guess no one cares anymore.

I highly recommend this military space opera . I'm not one to dissect and criticize an author's work as some seem to love to do . This saga is important work and it's well done and you will enjoy it... Just makes that certain you begin with the first volume. You'll be in for one hell of a ride. ... Please support this author. Raymond I'm still waiting for more work keep it coming cheers...

This is apparently a continuation of an ongoing tale. I was 9/10 through before I realized there must be two separate groups of humans operating with alien allies and not in contact with each other. It might be a great novel in context but is not the place to start.

I'm hooked on the "Special Five." Books keep getting better because I have known these characters since they were in the Academy. Yes, it is a "bigger and bigger" scenario - bigger weapons, bigger distances, bigger villains - but that is part of expanding the Universe Mr. Weil has put us in.

Thoroughly enjoy these books and can't wait for the next one.

Weil just keeps delivering in this series. Fleet Admiral Jeremy Strong and the rest of the Special Five continue in a seamless series of universe-spanning adventures. Can't recommend this series highly enough. Start at the beginning with "Moon Wreck" and follow the adventures of Jeremy Strong and the rest of the Special Five across time and space.

An excellent continuation of the previous story line; the Simulins are under control and the new enemy, the AntiLife, are looking as bad as any human could imagine. This book helps to complete the previous story and open the "new war". Well written with a lot of imagination. Raymond Weil is a really good story teller.

Now that their are several books in the series this story is becoming somewhat predictable.
I wonder why drones weren't used in the first place to recon Eternal space? There is a grammatical error. Quote "Several of our worlds would stringently object.” Should read stridently object not stringently. Hoping for more variety in the future.

Although reading the older series helps, it's nice Raymond has made this new series distinct enough to stand alone. I love his writing style. He does space opera well ..... overwhelming odds, valiant heroes, evil empires, a sense of hope and enough variability to keep the plot interesting.

When the lost fleet survivors appear to find sanctuary in a Dyson sphere a new enemy has arisen known as the anti life. They seem unstoppable and are ruthless. Raymond Weil continues to amaze his readers. There is non stop action and a few surprises. You will not be disappointed.

The series keeps getting better and better which I hard to believe. The plot thickens with the Originators. Great advances are made creating even more powerful warships to fight enemies. A great mystery needs to be solved. Fantastic reading and highly recommended!

The special 5 have found themselves with new adventures and a new enemy. I have enthusiastically followed them from the very beginning. This is a great series and I look forward to reading the next episode as soon as it is released.

The series keeps getting better and better which I hard to believe. The plot thickens with the Originators. Great advances are made creating even more powerful warships to fight enemies. A great mystery needs to be solved. Fantastic reading and highly recommended!

The special 5 have found themselves with new adventures and a new enemy. I have enthusiastically followed them from the very beginning. This is a great series and I look forward to reading the next episode as soon as it is released.

The Earth forces are allied with species across several galaxies now and still wiping out several seriously bad groups of critters. Add to the mix more A I type bad guys. And Grayseth is lost.
Or is he?

I have followed Mr. Weil and have never been disappointed! I cannot wait to read the rest of this series. Always plenty of action and many prospects on what is to come in the future. I highly recommend this book.

After months of anxiously waiting I was not disappointed. Mr. Weil continues with his usual flair for detail, as well as his ability to keep the reader wanting more. Can't wait for the next installments. Keep it up!

Been reading this series from the beginning. I can't say how much I have enjoyed these books. I would love to see someone make a movie from one of them. Please keep up the wonderful work you have done. Any scifi fan will love these books.

Weil continues to entertain with twisting plots full of rich characters and a universe full of nearly unstoppable aliens. Humans find themselves outmanned and outgunned but with a continuously improving techbase that allows them to survive in a hostile universe where survival of the fittest is the rule not the exception. A hard book to put down!