Gunship eBook John Davis
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In a distant galaxy, planets are on the brink of civil war. While the totalitarian Legion prepares its troops, Captain Adam Michaels sees opportunity in the field of smuggling. Now, along with the rest of the Gunship's crew, Adam will chase their biggest payday yet. Of course, they'll have to face vampires, orc, true love, and plenty of other perils along the way. Gunship is the perfect mix of whiskey, saloons, spaceships and alien races.
Edition 2017
Gunship eBook John Davis
In a "system" far away Colonials are getting ready to rebel.... again. The first try didn't turn out well for them, but they've really prepared this time: bigger ships, better tech, and more money behind them. The Legion knows a rebellion is coming, and cuts a deal with the Hunters for nefarious plans of murder, deceit and skullduggery. Adam Michaels is minding his own business (smuggling, mostly) and going broke, but enjoying the ride and his crew of misfits- A female pilot with a scarlet past, a suicidally belligerant engineer, a friend who tries to drown his past in drunken debauchery and the android he won in a poker game. In an insane bid to keep his ship in the black he accepts a commission from the Hunters and finds they expect him to transport a kidnapped woman to her father's enemies. The job isn't settling too well with him even before he gets a good look at Sarah. After that his compulsion to do the right thing catapults him into the middle of the rebellion.Well written with good characters, but the proofreading could be more thorough
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Gunship eBook John Davis Reviews
A good first book for a series but it suffers from a horrible proofreading. The characters were good but not great and suffered from a lack of depth. The story was sound and developed naturally. The science seemed inconsistent with space travel particularly weakly described. I can say that I will probably try at least one more in the series but John's craft and proofreading needs to improve a bit to win me over!
To be perfectly honest I chose the book because it was offered for free. That said I do believe that this series has promise. It lays a solid foundation for the rest of the series to take off from. I will probably be purchasing the next 2 novels in this series. All things said it was a solid good read. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
16 year old boy's fantasy of using a Very thinly disguised Star's clone complete with vampires. No attention to realism or detail. Star ships with gunpowder weapons. Crew who doesn't even secure their cargo crates, even when crash landing.
Yet another Firefly/Serenity ripoff, Joss should sue for royalties. Don't get me wrong there's a lot of room in this genre for space westerns but this one showed little imagination or creativity.
I believe that Davis is not an evil outsourcer tossing nickels to the southeast pacific for middle school grade rehashed bathroom tissues of popular American tv shows. No, based on this book, he is simply a prolific writer who cannot write, taking his ideas from the television. This is what will turn the Zon into something more akin to the big New York publishers and the short age may come to a close or drastic change. It is no wonder most readers are avoiding the Indies...it's mostly garbage like ...Gunship.
It started out with a promising Firefly vibe that went downhill fast. I rated the plot full of surprises simply because there are so many incredibly bad transitions that the reader spends half the book trying to figure out where they are and who is even speaking. A good editor might be able to help this out but there are other issues -spoiler alert- such as the heroine (a generals daughter that supposedly has combat training) deciding to go on a dropped behind enemy lines rescue operation decked out for an evening on the town to impress a man. In other words, parts of this story just don't make any sense, and that's ignoring the bad transitions.
Gunship(Book 1)by John Davis
I think I download this while I was looking for steam-punk novels, this is not steam-punk. It's more like Firefly with caveat's galore. It might remind some people of Firefly and some people might actually enjoy it. But there are a lot of strange style choices and sense of some sort of rush that starts from page one and goes right through the thing.
The sense of rush itself could be good but in this case it's just damaging. With the style of writing and everything that John Davis wanted to stuff into this story I would have to go against my usual rule of limiting the size and say that he should have made this story much larger to give him time to develop characters and the story in more expansive way. It's really hard to explain without having someone read the story. You have to read this to see. I think that if he'd chosen a style that would have condensed his writing to essentials maybe the length of the story would then work.
The ebook had some other problems that may or may not have been style choices. Either way it causes difficulty reading the story. There are dramatic scene changes that are not separated in any way except the immediate jar (sometimes) that I got while reading. Sometimes I may have gotten scenes mixed in with each other because there was no way to delineate the scenes. Since on occasion a scene break does show up I have to strongly suspect that the missing scene changes may have just never been there, but it's often not quite fair to assume that with a kindle document because the process of conversion often does lose those dramatic spaces.
There is an entire section where we get a shopping list view of every character on the ship and possibly their motivation and such so that this doesn't have to be dealt with in the story and I would rather see something like this developed throughout the story instead of munged into one hill of description. One result for me is the feeling that every motive and every character seem to have been rushed out and I think that creates the feeling of the characters being flat though if the reader goes back to that section they can almost see they are slightly fleshed out. It really ruined the sense of romance for me in the love interests.
I did enjoy the tension of the battle at the end. The climax is helpful in giving the story a bit more depth. I did end up with some issues about how things developed but the largest is a bit of personal preference. I don't mind the female protagonist fighting in dresses and such. It's a common feature of games and comic books. What I have a problem with is when there is clearly no reason for the female to chose that. If it so happens that the battle starts while everyone is at a ball or dance or some swank function then, yes, what they have on is what they have on. In this story in the final scenes there was no logical reason for the character to show up for battle in a red dress. She knew she was going, everyone had time to get ready, and she should have been wearing the same thing the rest of the troops had and maybe even some battle armor. That said she should have been wounded, hurt, bleeding and sorry that she ever wore a dress into battle.I'm pretty sure there is no mention of the red dress being lined with battle armor.
Lastly and this I would not have complained about if the author had made this novel longer with more depth to the characters, but he didn't. This trilogy probably should have been one book and it should have been reworked and condensed. Or it should have been longer with more built in character development. This leaves you hanging, which again is not always a bad thing, but in this instance it seems inexcusable. This is like a short story or at best a novella. It is definitely not 358 pages as is listed. It's probably closer to 100 pages 120 at best.(I'm not sure where they get these page counts from and a word count is a lot better to judge by.)
For those who are concerned about grammar and spelling errors this is not the book for you.
Fans of Firefly who don't mind some light reading with striking similarities might appreciate this. It's sort of SFF with extreme emphasis on the Fantasy part. The vampires, zombies , and pirates are not well defined enough to really be that recognizable and if you don't mind a lot of bloody action then you might enjoy this if you do like Vampires, Zombies and Pirates.
Some more editing, tighter writing, and a bit more character development with a true page count of 350 pages would really help this book. It has a lot more potential.
J.L. Dobias
In a "system" far away Colonials are getting ready to rebel.... again. The first try didn't turn out well for them, but they've really prepared this time bigger ships, better tech, and more money behind them. The Legion knows a rebellion is coming, and cuts a deal with the Hunters for nefarious plans of murder, deceit and skullduggery. Adam Michaels is minding his own business (smuggling, mostly) and going broke, but enjoying the ride and his crew of misfits- A female pilot with a scarlet past, a suicidally belligerant engineer, a friend who tries to drown his past in drunken debauchery and the android he won in a poker game. In an insane bid to keep his ship in the black he accepts a commission from the Hunters and finds they expect him to transport a kidnapped woman to her father's enemies. The job isn't settling too well with him even before he gets a good look at Sarah. After that his compulsion to do the right thing catapults him into the middle of the rebellion.
Well written with good characters, but the proofreading could be more thorough
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