The idea behind this series is quite good, but the problem is the details of the encounters with the aliens are getting more and more tedious.
The special feature of the Voltran, is not that each space battle consists of its ability to fire missiles at a staggering rate (hundreds per shoot out), the seemingly bottomless pit of an arsenal but the growing psychic ability of our hero to gee up the souls of the dead kijol, that power the ship, to fling psychic energy/weapons at the opposing forces. Forget lasers, fasors, phasers, dazers, plasma cannons, plasma torpedoes, nuclear missiles, fusion bombs, anti-matter artillery and all the other weapons we are used to and try to absorb the Psion WITHER, SLOW or BOREDOM (actually, I made that last one up, but I felt it emanating from this book). So many thousands of missiles are somehow psychically SLOWED in flight that they fail to reach their fast moving targets that space must be filled with millions of unexploded ordnance just waiting for a vessel to accidentally emerge from light speed travel into their midst.
Once again our captain (don't think captain of a naval vessel, but captain of a bomber with a just a few crew members) makes decisions like a planes pilot and thinks nothing of the soldiers condemned to sit quietly out back while the Voltran flits from one galaxy to another engaging enemy craft in ever increasingly dangerous situations. We never know if the soldiers even know they are involved in battles as they are never mentioned outside of short actions, occasional body guarding and hogging the coffee replicator in the 'mess room'. Grisham ignores them to the point that on re-supply he doesn't even get some basic furniture for them to sit on while they wait for days at a time for something to happen. Personally, as a civil war is about to occur, I'd be keen to keep the soldiers on side and not alienate them by pure arrogance and neglect. Perhaps before undertaking another dangerous mission NOT sanctioned by the military command they normally report to, Grisham should check to see if the soldiers would prefer to be dropped off somewhere first. That's better than having men with guns who don't like you on board.
I think I'm done with this series now. My head has suffered a Psion WITHER too many.
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