Valiant (The Lost Fleet, Book 4 of 6)

This is book 4. You should read the book in order. This is the best group of books I have read in a long time. If you like non-stop action these books are for you. Well worth your money.

If you enjoyed the previous volumes of the series you won't be disappointed.
Four star rating reflects no so much the quality of the story but the remarkable consistency starting with volume one. Don't mean the book's not good. It is. Not the best SF novel I've ever read but most certainly an entertaining read. There are a few weak points like excessive soul searching and self disparaging discourses on the main protagonists part that sometimes were rather tiresome overall pretty solid job I'd say. Start with volume one and you'll know soon enough whether you'll like the rest.

Good story still but less and less pages each book plus he keeps wasting pages on explaining everything everybook i mean if your reading book 4 and dont know how the meeting room works just give up reading

If you haven't read the first three books in this series, go back and start at the beginning. If you have read them and enjoyed them, you will like this installment as well. Like most military SF it suffers from stuffiness -- since everyone is SO sincere, and SO self-sacrificing (except for the baddies of course, who are SO self-serving, and SO sincere in their maliciousness). However, this series doesn't seem to be quite as over the top in this regard as, say, the works of David Weber. Nevertheless it lacks the saving and ingratiating humor of Lois Bujold's Vorkosigan series.

Once past that (and the ridiculous cover art -- I mean, our hero is a fleet commander, not a marine grunt; come on!) this volume, like the others, is well plotted, with an interesting protagonist, who is presented with some interesting problems. And the space battles seem "realistic" (given the assumed technology of this future), fought with very clever tactics and stratagems.

In short, it was good enough that I will buy the next volume in the series to see how things -- if not "work out" -- progress.

This is the fourth book I have purchased in the series Lost Fleet. The story is put together with large epic pieces looming forming the back drop of an intricate dance of small details that unfold for Captain Black Jack Geary. Jack's injection of fleet combat over a up and down series of subplots is done in true story teller style. This book is polite to it's readers, keeping tradition with "The just shall prevail" and dishing up a nice serving of inter-character drama.

While I found myself looking forward to finding out "who did what" rushing me to the next chapter, there is a upsetting side effect of finishing the book. I would like to read more .... alas, I will need patience.

While reading this series, see if you can piece together some joking jabs at what is possibly Jack's own passion, writing. I say possibly because I do not know him. However his imagination is organized and fun to unpack after a hard days work.