scotty marinara reviewed Renegade by Joel Shepherd
magnificent! 4 armed chah'nas chef's kisses!
5 stars
i've read a lot of reviews of this book and theyre kinda all over the place. i was told this was "mass effect minus the reapers" and you know what? it is mass effect minus the reapers except there's very distantly the reapers. i loved almost all the characters and the high octane action was great! the worldbuilding is on par with iain m banks' culture books with no godlike ai.. yet. i suspect there's a chekov's gun there in future books and series. there's 26 mentioned xenos species in the region of the galaxy the series is set in. in this book, we only meet with four or so we've got the ufs phoenix, "hero ship", like mass effects' normandy theres a super badass marine character thats like angela bassett's character from the movie strange days. not a mary sue or gary stu in this book. for me, this …
i've read a lot of reviews of this book and theyre kinda all over the place. i was told this was "mass effect minus the reapers" and you know what? it is mass effect minus the reapers except there's very distantly the reapers. i loved almost all the characters and the high octane action was great! the worldbuilding is on par with iain m banks' culture books with no godlike ai.. yet. i suspect there's a chekov's gun there in future books and series. there's 26 mentioned xenos species in the region of the galaxy the series is set in. in this book, we only meet with four or so we've got the ufs phoenix, "hero ship", like mass effects' normandy theres a super badass marine character thats like angela bassett's character from the movie strange days. not a mary sue or gary stu in this book. for me, this is great! i got the entire series already, on kindle! i've been ranting and raving to my ex about this and i bet he will read it soon! the ending was reletless awesome and perfection. 999999/5 stars. read this book asap!