Lacuna: Demons Of The Void (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
Tactics! Or the complete lack of them is what more than anything else drove me nuts about this book. This is supposed to be be a grand space opera type of story. It focuses on military and space battles. I have never been part of the military but the idea that you have only three ships and preemptively strike a group that is far technologically and numerically superior is just stupid. The whole story just made me shake my head at the shear ridiculousness of the military operations, sense of protocol and lack of any kind of tactics. The main character is also ridiculous in her way of dealing with everything and juvenile thinking. The only thing this book had going for it was that it was decently written. Too bad the content was so terrible. Overall, I found the book alright. I love sci-fi and I thought it would be interesting. The description of the appearance of the aliens was interesting and I did like reading about the technology. I liked it, but I didn't love it. There were so many plot issues that I had with this book. The big one being that I did not like the main character at all. In fact, I found I could not care about her at all. I found her personality incredibly abrasive and really immature. For me, it's a bad sign when I can't even find it in myself to care about the main character and in fact hate them. She was just constantly rude, arrogant, and brash. There wasn't a single redeeming quality about her, which was unfortunate. I also did not like the engineer and found myself irritated with her constant swearing. I also had issue with the reasoning behind the alien invasion. It did not make sense, because why wouldn't they try and communicate first instead of just attacking? That's a glaring plot hole for me, followed by some of the battle sequences on the main character's end of shoot first ask questions later. I also could not get behind the lack of research on military protocol. Let's face it, with some of the actions the main character pulled, they would be facing a court martial and possibly a dishonorable discharge. It really makes me wonder if the writer even did the proper research about military protocols and tactics. I still have the other books in the series to read and I am hoping they are better than this first attempt because more often than not, I found myself annoyed with this story and annoyed with the main character often. I'm relieved that this was a free book and that I did not spend money on it because it's just not up to snuff.
What do You think about Lacuna: Demons Of The Void (2011)?
Lots of action...Good read. Going to get the next book in the series.
—Sam
little slow to begin, but great book overall!
—blindspawn
