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Hi. My name is E.T. Barton from BookReviewersClub.com and I'm here
today to review the book “Wreck of the Nebula Dream” by Veronica Scott. This is a
science fiction book and normally I don't like science fiction books,
but the author asked me to review this book, and so I went ahead and read it.
Basically, the premise behind the book is the Titanic in Space. But as the book started, it
reminded me of the Fifth Element. You have a military hero named Nick Jameson who is
traveling on a shuttle to a cruise ship.
The ship is called the Nebula Dream, thus the title “The Wreck of the Nebula Dream.”
The first nineteen percent of the book, the author doesn't really tell you what the
Plot is. She doesn't ever come out with it.
So you’re kind of going through it thinking, “What is going on? He’s walking around
this cruise ship. He’s seeing
people. He's observing, but he's not really
talking or interacting with people.” So you kind of think,
“I don't know if I like this.” Then at the twenty percent mark – according to my Kindle -
This Nebula Dream, which is on its maiden voyage trying to get to a
destination faster than any ship has ever gone before,
runs into a meteor shower.
Then, you've got a shift that is breaking Apart. You’ve got passengers
fleeing in the lifeboats
and you’ve got Nick Jameson trying to help people get off the ship. He's the only one
that's realizing that the ship is in serious trouble because the Captain
has basically left them all for dead so he can save face with the company.
When the hero realizes this, he knows he needs to do something to get somebody to come
rescue these people because the captain had a problem with the engine. When he had a
problem with the engine, in order to still
make his destination on time, he took a shortcut through
enemy territory.
So we’ve gone from “The Fifth Element” to “Titanic” to enemy territory, and the enemies that
I imagine or something like the Reavers from “Firefly” or “Serenity.” They’re very
Violent. They like to eat and torture People. As the book goes on, the hero
picks up a very strange group of people that are wandering around
trying to save people.
All in all, I really liked the book. I really did. I gave it five stars because I’d read it again.
Once you get past that twenty percent mark, it's an adrenaline rush ride all the way to the end.
It's action. It’s adventure. It’s tension.
It's just a little bit of romance - not a whole lot – and it’s a satisfying ending.
The writing is excellent and it's easy to read.
If you can just get past the first twenty percent, you'll enjoy it a whole lot.
So definite read. Five stars all the way. That's my review. Thank you