Stellar Fox (Castle Federation) (Volume 2)

I started out thinking this would get better but after reading all the books so far I am not satisfied with the ending, it was anticlimactic and left me rethinking my decision to have read the series, to much time is spent re hashing the plot for someone coming in at book 2 or three and a lot of wordsmithing about planets star drives, and weaponry. If I could go back and get a do over I would have passed on the entire series.

Aside from some minor inconsistencies about who does what, this series features a very complex interplay of many players. I compliment the writer for his obsessive mental gymnastics regarding the process of keeping all the player consistent. Minor issues of proofreading.

I started out thinking this would get better but after reading all the books so far I am not satisfied with the ending, it was anticlimactic and left me rethinking my decision to have read the series, to much time is spent re hashing the plot for someone coming in at book 2 or three and a lot of wordsmithing about planets star drives, and weaponry. If I could go back and get a do over I would have passed on the entire series.

Book 2, "Stellar Fox" is an unfortunately poorly executed followup in the "Castle Federation" series. The storyline is has some merit: stellar warfare between existing human alliances, federations, coalitions centuries in the future. It's a simplistic "space opera shoot 'em up," with star fleets, political intrigues, and assassinations.

The operative word concerning "Stellar Fox," is simplistic. The eBook author's lack of mature writing talent, inane projected science, obsessive fetishes and one dimensional characters, make the book both juvenile and nearly unreadable.

Every SciFi reader accepts that "leaps of faith" must be made in reading SciFi for entertainment, with regards to known science. Too many "leaps" and an author becomes annoyingly ludicrous. The author is teetering on that ledge. Further, he has an adolescent obsession with sexuality and a fetish for characters' hair. There are straight, bi, gay, lesbians, hermaphrodites and undecided characters, not for plot, storyline purposes or character development, but as shallow description. The hair thing struck me in Book 1 and now is endemic to Book 2. Character after character is described by their hair-length, style, color (writer favors redheads). Perhaps appropriate for a hair fetish convention, but not for this book.

The book is readable with severe caveats. The eBook author should consider honing his lacking writing skill set, before continuing further. The editing/proofreading of the book is below acceptable. The absence of "pride of workmanship" in published commercial eBook products is indicative of author self aggrandizement and failure of quality control by the store. Kindle Unlimited is not a free service, all users pay a monthly fee.