The Terran Gambit Episode #1 The Pax Humana Saga eBook Nick Webb
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Lieutenant Jacob Mercer likes fast motorcycles, faster women, and screamin' space fighters. As a reckless fighter jock in the Resistance fleet battling the Corsican Empire, he lives solely for the thrill of taking out as many Imperial bogeys as he can.
A rebel victory is looming on the horizon when the Imperials abruptly change tactics and, in a devastating show of force, incinerate the city of Dallas with a thermonuclear blast – killing millions – and delivering a merciless example of what happens to upstart worlds in the Pax Humana.
But the Resistance will not be cowed so easily. In retaliation the rebel leadership devises a daring plan to strike at the Empire's heart in a final, desperate bid for freedom, a plan that will put Jake Mercer in the captain's chair of the most advanced warship in the galaxy.
To succeed, all Jake has to do is face down a psychopathic Imperial Admiral bent on utterly destroying the Resistance and even Earth itself.
The Terran Gambit Episode #1 The Pax Humana Saga eBook Nick Webb
The Terran Gambit is the first entry into Enti Webb's The Pax Humana cycle. It's wasn't that surprising, at least to me, that The Terran Gambit is about the end of the Pax Humana. Global, or galactic, peace is hard to make interesting. Humans have spread far beyond Earth, and have created a vast state, called The Corsican Empire, which is styled upon the Roman Empire. At the edges of the Empire there are small pirate groups or unaligned planets, but the vast majority of the empire lives without war, leaving humanity in a state of peace, or a Pax Humana.The book opens with the citizens of the Earth rebelling, though their reasons for revolt are not clear. This lack of real motivation was a problem for me throughout the book. There are some passages where it's mentioned that the bureaucracy is overwhelming, and basic support services are hard to come by, but nothing that convinced me that rebellion was necessary. This rebellion is quickly crushed, though one Resistance battleship escapes. At this point the story jumps forwards three years, after the resistance has been crushed and reintegrated with the rest of the empire.
Here we join our heroes, three hotshots who distinguished themselves while fighting for the resistance and one latecomer, as they report to a newly forming fleet. This fleet features the newest, biggest, and baddest ships the Empire has to offer, and the majority of the crew is former Resistance members. Obviously we all see where this is going. In between the action Webb uses his heroes to showcase a bit of what’s going on down on Earth that compels everyone to rebel. As I mentioned before, he didn’t sell me on it. Hopefully in future editions he delves more into the Resistance’s background.
Along the way we meet the enemy, an Empire Admiral by the name of Trajan. It’s quite clear that he’s modeled off of Imperial Grand Admiral Thrawn from The Thrawn Trilogy. Instead of art Trajan analyzes people using their taste in music, and despite lacking the red alien eyes has his face disfigured from a lost eye. Now, before anyone starts making assumptions, I’m not saying this is a bad thing. Thrawn is one of my favorite villains, and it’s nice to see another take on his character. So far Trajan hasn’t been developed much, but I get the sense that Webb is setting him up for some big events in future installments.
Overall I thoroughly enjoyed The Terran Gambit. The action was tight, and the combat exciting. One thing that did strike me as an issue was some of the descriptions of women, I personally think that the phrase “tight little ass” should only be uttered by a character, not used as a descriptive phrase. Still, the story grabbed my attention, and the characters were likeable. I’ll be reading the sequel (supposed to come out this month - May 2014) as soon as I can.
Per G Jonsson on PG’s Ramblings liked the book, and had a few interesting comments. One that struck me was that he found some of the action to be unrealistic. I have to agree, but I will give The Terran Gambit the benefit of the doubt; I put it in the category of sci-fi totally opposite of “hard sci-fi,” whatever that may be. It never tries to be hard, and so shouldn’t, in my opinion, be held to that standard. Another comment he made was that the book mostly is setting up the later series. This I wholeheartedly agree with, but again, don’t hold it against the book. We’ve all got to start somewhere. I think we have to see how the sequels are handled to determine if this was the right move or not.
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The Terran Gambit Episode #1 The Pax Humana Saga eBook Nick Webb Reviews
If you're like me, you look for book deals and, when the price is right, you pounce. Not all books bought like this are worth your reading time, but this is one is and then some. Terran Gambit is everything I want a great Sci-fi book to be. It's fast paced, action packed and I could hardly put it down. After the first couple of pages, you're hooked and the author, Endi Webb tells a superb tale with just the right amount of dialogue. I literally couldn't turn the pages fast enough and can't wait for book #2 in the series.
I received an ARC from the author in exchange for an honest review.
This is the first book in what promises to be an action packed series. Endi is an evil genius. He had me racking my brain for half a day, even after I asked him if he had written this as a short story before, trying to figure out where I had heard a particular concept. He told me he had not, but didn't tell me any more. I eventually figured it out, and the homage he paid to Timothy Zhan and one of the most diabolical villains of literature is amazing.
Towards the end of the book, the POV characters grew, and in growing, I felt that Anya Grace missed her voice at the beginning. Endi has promised me this will be rectified (at a later date as he felt he couldn't do justice to it so close to the release).
He also throws in a few curve balls you never see coming towards the end of the book.
My biggest complaint was the lack of what I felt was important back story.
My feed back to Endi was
I still don't feel like I have a understanding of how earth became a space traveling society, about when it happened nor why it became a target of the empire. Why did the resistance form (what injustices were perpetuated, was the empire overly aggressive in acquisition of earth, were we invited to join??? etc)
I understand this will come in future books which I am excited to read.
I give this book a solid 4 stars. It kept me wanting to come back and read more.
I love the premise, think its a great plot, but this book is just way to slow to make it a 5 star rating. Endi Webb has a great mind. My only criticism is there are no "wins" and no real action except for the beginning and the end of his books. The first 5 pages and the last 5 pages are pretty much the only time you see the protagonist achieve anything. The rest of the time they are outsmarted, outworked, outfought, and losing. The great authors of this genre, in my opinion, keep the pages turning. Also, the protagonists in the series are constantly outsmarted and walk right into traps. How many traps can one walk into before they decide to become weary and shrewd? Way to predictable. And with how bad the good guys get beatdown its no realistic that they would ever make it out alive
An enjoyable read that while a little slow in the middle, did deliver some very exciting battles between ships (Resistance and Empire forces) and in-ship battles. I liked the premise - Earth leading a resistance movement against the larger, more powerful Corsican Empire or Pax Humana as it is also known. The characters were good Jacob Mercer, a typical space jock that discovers in the heat of battle, despite his wild/fast (the whole fast woman, dangerous fly-boy tactics) reputation, he is the best man to sit in the captain's chair; Megan ' Grizzly/Mama' Po who after suffering devasting personal loss finds her self the person people come to for advice and of course the psychopathic Admiral Trajan of the Corsican Empire whose cold nature hides a brilliant mind that is willing to take down and destroy the Resistance forever. Looking forward to reading the next book )
The Terran Gambit is the first entry into Enti Webb's The Pax Humana cycle. It's wasn't that surprising, at least to me, that The Terran Gambit is about the end of the Pax Humana. Global, or galactic, peace is hard to make interesting. Humans have spread far beyond Earth, and have created a vast state, called The Corsican Empire, which is styled upon the Roman Empire. At the edges of the Empire there are small pirate groups or unaligned planets, but the vast majority of the empire lives without war, leaving humanity in a state of peace, or a Pax Humana.
The book opens with the citizens of the Earth rebelling, though their reasons for revolt are not clear. This lack of real motivation was a problem for me throughout the book. There are some passages where it's mentioned that the bureaucracy is overwhelming, and basic support services are hard to come by, but nothing that convinced me that rebellion was necessary. This rebellion is quickly crushed, though one Resistance battleship escapes. At this point the story jumps forwards three years, after the resistance has been crushed and reintegrated with the rest of the empire.
Here we join our heroes, three hotshots who distinguished themselves while fighting for the resistance and one latecomer, as they report to a newly forming fleet. This fleet features the newest, biggest, and baddest ships the Empire has to offer, and the majority of the crew is former Resistance members. Obviously we all see where this is going. In between the action Webb uses his heroes to showcase a bit of what’s going on down on Earth that compels everyone to rebel. As I mentioned before, he didn’t sell me on it. Hopefully in future editions he delves more into the Resistance’s background.
Along the way we meet the enemy, an Empire Admiral by the name of Trajan. It’s quite clear that he’s modeled off of Imperial Grand Admiral Thrawn from The Thrawn Trilogy. Instead of art Trajan analyzes people using their taste in music, and despite lacking the red alien eyes has his face disfigured from a lost eye. Now, before anyone starts making assumptions, I’m not saying this is a bad thing. Thrawn is one of my favorite villains, and it’s nice to see another take on his character. So far Trajan hasn’t been developed much, but I get the sense that Webb is setting him up for some big events in future installments.
Overall I thoroughly enjoyed The Terran Gambit. The action was tight, and the combat exciting. One thing that did strike me as an issue was some of the descriptions of women, I personally think that the phrase “tight little ass” should only be uttered by a character, not used as a descriptive phrase. Still, the story grabbed my attention, and the characters were likeable. I’ll be reading the sequel (supposed to come out this month - May 2014) as soon as I can.
Per G Jonsson on PG’s Ramblings liked the book, and had a few interesting comments. One that struck me was that he found some of the action to be unrealistic. I have to agree, but I will give The Terran Gambit the benefit of the doubt; I put it in the category of sci-fi totally opposite of “hard sci-fi,” whatever that may be. It never tries to be hard, and so shouldn’t, in my opinion, be held to that standard. Another comment he made was that the book mostly is setting up the later series. This I wholeheartedly agree with, but again, don’t hold it against the book. We’ve all got to start somewhere. I think we have to see how the sequels are handled to determine if this was the right move or not.
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