3.0
The Valiant
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King Arthur in outer space?
Endless warfare has ravaged Earth. Billions are desperate to escape.
Driven from her home and severed from her children, Taylan Ellis enlists with the Britannic Alliance, hoping she can help regain her homeland and find her kids.
Her ship, the Valiant, picks up a distress signal that leads to the mummified remains of a Dark Ages warrior chieftain.
Then her commanding officer discovers the 'mummy' has a pulse.
Taylan suspects she knows who the mystery man is, but can she convince her superiors in time to save the BA, her country, and her children?
The Valiant is book one in the epic space fantasy adventure, Star Legend.
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“Oddly enough, I like everything about this book other than the main premise ;) Alliances fighting (from their spaceships) over the resources from earth? All in. Female heroine who constantly surprises her fellow marines by besting them in combat? I'm good. Annoying child you'd like to put in a tube and shoot into space? I can live with that. Ship "eating" dark cloud? All good. Responding to a distress call on an ancient channel and rescuing a "mummy" with a heartbeat? Let me know where this takes me. I simply couldn't get past (spoiler if you haven't read the book, but NOT if you read the description) the fact that the 'mummy' is King Arthur. 3.5 or even 4 out of 5. I basically liked everything, but the Arthur angle. But since Arthur seems to be central to the series (I assume, haven't read book 2), I just can't quite get all in on this series. Would absolutely check out something else by J.J. Green.”
“this one was just really fun! i read this when i was in the midst of a too large block of MEH books, and this really reignited my reading. i was excited to see what happened next and i'm incredibly happy i have the next two books! i love arthurian legend, and so far i really enjoy how it's done here. a lot of the focus on reimaginings seems to be the whole arthur/guinevere/lancelot romance situation, but there's so much more to it. i will say though, while the arthur character is present from the beginning, it doesn't really become "a thing" until about 60% in. which is fine; i'm okay with learning some backstory. any other characters we know and love from arthuriana just appear with regular names, so i'm v eager to see who is who/if i've predicted properly haha
i think/assume this is self-published(?) and the amount of typos/errors are shockingly low, so well done editor(s)!! i've seen more in traditionally published books recently. i'm also not sure if the author has any sort of military background or did any research, but the way people of different ranks interact definitely felt off to me. but that could also be that i'm not from the same country as green, so what do i know? i wouldn't call this a military scifi necessarily..just scifi with a militaristic setting. there are several earth factions at odds with each other, and it just feels like any character who picks a side in any way will be involved in the conflict, and military service seems like the safest way to do that. another v small weird thing i want to mention is a line where one character basically doesn't want to piss off his superior and says if another person is gone when the superior gets back, his life "won't be worth living" or something like that. it was incredibly jarring - not only was it melodramatic, but it made absolutely no sense as a thing that character would say. and since it was just that one line in the entire book, it really stuck with me as a negative. but i think that's just me nitpicking.
as for the factions...SO INTERESTING. religious zealots can really go either way for me, and this one really worked. one character who is The Worst is actually fun to follow/see into his world, and seeing him and the...religious figure (i guess that's how i'll say it haha) interact is really fun. and i always love when power dynamics end up being like...everyone thinks they're winning and have the upper hand, but they're all sort of just idiots blowing each other up.
there was A Big Mysterious Thing that happened during a battle and it comes up again at the end sooooooo yeah. need to continue asap. actually, i rearranged my december reading plans specifically so i could continue with this series = )”
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