Yet another over-rated, self-published book.I am encountering an ever increasing proportion of self-published books, mostly from newbie/unknown authors, which have ridiculously high ratings. "Omega Rising" is the latest. A recent NY Times article titled "The Best Book Reviews Money Can Buy" suggests what the problem might be, but I wish to make no accusations here. I only note that it has become difficult to trust the ratings on self-published books any longer."Omega Rising" is rife with grammatical mistakes. The most prevalent is the common error of joining two independent sentences together with a comma and no conjunction. Example (from the book): "He gasped slightly as the icy water hit his skin, this far up in the mountains the well water was still very cold in early May." (A semi-colon should have been used, or better still, it should have just been two separate sentences.) This type of mistake was made on almost every page of the novel, and multiple times on some pages. Other commonly made grammatical errors include "try and" instead of "try to", and confusion between the proper use of "it's" versus "its". The vast number of basic grammatical mistakes makes it painfully obvious that no proofreading or professional editing was done, and made the novel come off as very amateurish.Now, for the positives: In spite of its grammatical shortcomings, and although it could have benefited from some better character development (it would have been good, for example, to include some interspersed passages that flashed back to Jason Burke's military days and perhaps the relationship with "she" that is briefly alluded to, in order to provide a more detailed backstory), the story pulled me in and held my attention. The action was nicely paced, the situations were believable in a sci-fi context (if not terribly original), and comparisons others have made to Firefly are not inaccurate. The author definitely shows some real promise, and I hope he can work on his grammar chops. I give this novel 2 stars, and would have given it a 3.5 rounded up to 4 if not for the grammatical problems. this was a good read. My first reaction was not to like the fact that Jason walked right into an alien spacecraft that landed near his cottage in the woods on Earth. Then the next thought was how is he going to get back if at all. As the story unfolded I could see an ending but did not know if it would be the one. The ending was not really an ending because the book leaves room for a second book of Jason's exploits in space.
What do You think about Omega Rising (2000)?
Highly entertaining , a fast read. I finished it in a few hours. Looking forward to the next one.
—TTcool
A nice little space opera. A little predictable, but otherwise well written and fun to read
—lilylovebooks123
