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| Courageous (The Lost Fleet, Book 3) | 
 enlarge | Author: Jack Campbell
Publisher: Ace
Category: Book
List Price: $7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  54 reviews
Sales Rank: 6412
Media: Paperback
Edition: Ace Mass-market Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0441015670
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780441015672
ASIN: 0441015670
Publication Date: December 18, 2007
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 Not Bad April 25, 2008
The third book in this series is "good", not a "can't put it down" like the first two, but still good. Cannot wait until #4 is out!
Solid Sci Fi - good vacation read April 17, 2008
Quick paced sci-fi - what I'd call a good book for taking on a vacation. Great space battles.
 287 pages of catfight + one and a half chapters of story April 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I wrote in my review for Fearless that Victoria Rione cost that book a star. Well, I barely clawed my way through this book because of her and the head-butting she's doing with Capt. Desjani. As far as I knew, I was buying a novel about space combat, not poorly executed romance novel.
I keep waiting for Rione to get sucked out an airlock. Or, better yet, get the stuffing knocked out of her by Capt. Desjani.
My guess is that the author locked into a six book contract and didn't have anything planned for number three, hence Courageous.
I was ready to throw in the towel on this series, until the happenings on page 288. It's my hope that this was just a blip in an otherwise good series. I'm looking forward to #4, where hopefully there's a whole lot of Syndic a-- kicking.
fun, but beginning to be repetitive March 20, 2008
So far this is the weakest of the series. Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying the genre as a whole and in particular this series, but the sheer repetitiveness is starting to drag. There are descriptions of tactics and 'physics' that are lifted wholescale- cut and paste style- from the first and second books. It really bogs down the pace. Also, the relationships seem forced, as if Campbell had been told he had to have a romantic interest and so put one in to satisfy the publisher, not because it served the story. Even with those weaknesses I rated the book as a 4 star because the ending really had me excited to read the next book.
 The Saga Continues...And Well Done, too... March 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Courageous is the latest installment in Jack Campbell(John Hemry)'s "Lost Fleet" saga. I'm glad to know this is the third installment of six planned(so far). Having read his other series, I believe he's gotten the hang of writing episodic space-opera type sci-fi. While the tactics and logistical details may pall on some, these details are what make things happen in real warfare("For want of a nail, a rider was lost...etc.") and function as plot elements, which writers use instead of relying on explosions and other "eye candy" that visually oriented media use to hold some folk's attention. The extended battle sequences are a bit dry, but then, the books are shorter and easier reading than the Honor Harrington(Don't get me wrong, I love 'em and won't miss one)stories and establish Campbell as a notable writer in his own right. I gladly welcome any male writers of space opera-why is it that my favorite space-opera writers(Bujold, Moon, McCaffrey) are women?...especially one that's as good as this series.
Actually, The writing steers between the over-written and the sparse science of other series(where plot elements sometimes supress believe-ability) quite nicely. I'd place this series in along with Hornblower, Vorkosigan, the Helmsman, Ensign Leary and both of Elizabeth Moon's space-opera series.
Bravo! Keep 'em coming...
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