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This book was a decent read, but not very long I finished it in one sitting of about 4 hours. Interesting story, and non stop action once it got started. Some of the characters seem a bit pointless as really the story only revolves around 2-3 of the five or so main characters, and the others are more supporting roles that are constantly there. Such as the security officer, how basically is told how to do any security or tactic related thing by the captain. It seems the security officers only real job is to pull off a few precision snapshots from time to time. The engineer is also the pilot which he does that more than anything engineering related during the book, that and be the incredible hulk. I found it a bit quirky in quite a few places either by phrase, action, or feasibility; like the space station jail cells that have metal and stone walls, or the hanger on the ship "equalizing pressure" with space instead of being a vacuum, or the three 40 ton nukes the size of a garbage can, stacked in the corner of an ammo closet without somehow falling through the floor of the ship (or how 40 tons fits in a garbage can sized area. Overall it is a decent read, if you don't mind 3 overly powered main characters saving the world almost single-handily, with unexplained technology, such as the experimental FTL engine/generator than needs no fuel, never breaks down even on its test flight and is faster than all the aliens ships that have had FTL for thousands of years. If your into hard science or even quasi sci then you will not enjoy the book, but if you want fast paced sci-fi action then you will probably enjoy it. I will most likely read the rest of the series as it is a good read for what it is.


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The Cagliostro Chronicles eBook Ralph L Angelo Jr Reviews

The Cagliostro Chronicles is an unabashed hybrid space opera part Heinleinesque romp; part pulp fiction; part classic comic tall tale, with a bit of E.E. Smith thrown in rich-super-hero-inventor makes his own faster-than-light magnetic drive ship, thumbs his nose at dumb government and saves our bacon. The story reads more like a movie than a book, once it gets going, having told us what special powers and strengths are present in the crew of this spaceship. The action is very fast. The characters are larger-than-life, the style experimental. The author knows his strong suit, and plays to it this maverick, intrepid crew gladdens his heart, and this shows in every line. Our hero seems to be the sole owner, or at least driving force, of a engineering firm bearing his name. This company can afford to do whatever he may decide, and do it better and cheaper that the vast military-industrial complex. Simple story, yes. But you find yourself caring that the protagonists succeed, at least in the book's terms. And they do. This is an unpretentious space adventure, bristling with the sort of weaponry and prototypes and stereotypes that many sci-fi fans have come to love.
This is like reading a Marvel comic book. The main character could just as well be called "Tony Stark", his buddy is a full tme "hulk" and his girlfreind has physic powers that can disable or read minds. Not realistic, but fun to read
As others have reviewed, its a nice read, not heavy in the technical details, but the author outright states that's not his goal. Its an adventure, where the main cast solve the problems put in front of them in an action packed manner. Very familiar elements dressed up with some flairs that kept it unique for what it is. My suspension of disbelief was fine for most of the tale until two points.

One, which is the bigger one, although it happens after the first one, is a certain rescue. Where a character is introduced in an unflattering manner. She is pretty much set up as someone not to like, we find out why, and then she disappears from the story. I kept hoping to find an explanation of why she acted the way she did, or even what she is as an explanation, like what happened to the President or the General, but there was nothing. She knew too much to have done what she did simply out of fear she was on the losing side. I honestly feel as I must have missed something as my reading rate did pick up as I expected (hoped for) another rescue in the works given what happened to the President and the General. The lack of any explanation bothered me for the rest of the book. I confess, I even used the search function on the to find any reference to her name to see if I missed some explanation.

The other was their smaller ship. Several times its refer to as doing something on its own, but lacked an explanation of how. I don't mean I needed a technical how-it-works explanation. It would have been nice to know whether it was automated, with some preset program, an AI (which really is the same thing, but many works treat it as different), its a robot-ship or some other reason that let it just know when to fire on the bad guys or even come back to get the crew if something happened to them. It seemed glossed over to justify the need for a pilot the rest of the time. Whatever the reason, the lack of an explanation bothered me.

However, if such a trivial details won't bother you, the book is a nice, smooth read. I will pick up the next book to see how Mark and the gang go through that upcoming adventure aboard the Cag.
Fantastic space opera that is fun and entertaining. Which for me is what many space operas lack. The author blends a great sci-fi tale while wonderfully incorporating some great humor and action. The characters are well developed, and their individual personalities all come through, which sometimes in a book this length and with many characters gets lost. Great jonb, and I already have Cag 2 locked and loaded for Hyper-warp reading. Definitely 5 happy stars from this reader
This book was a decent read, but not very long I finished it in one sitting of about 4 hours. Interesting story, and non stop action once it got started. Some of the characters seem a bit pointless as really the story only revolves around 2-3 of the five or so main characters, and the others are more supporting roles that are constantly there. Such as the security officer, how basically is told how to do any security or tactic related thing by the captain. It seems the security officers only real job is to pull off a few precision snapshots from time to time. The engineer is also the pilot which he does that more than anything engineering related during the book, that and be the incredible hulk. I found it a bit quirky in quite a few places either by phrase, action, or feasibility; like the space station jail cells that have metal and stone walls, or the hanger on the ship "equalizing pressure" with space instead of being a vacuum, or the three 40 ton nukes the size of a garbage can, stacked in the corner of an ammo closet without somehow falling through the floor of the ship (or how 40 tons fits in a garbage can sized area. Overall it is a decent read, if you don't mind 3 overly powered main characters saving the world almost single-handily, with unexplained technology, such as the experimental FTL engine/generator than needs no fuel, never breaks down even on its test flight and is faster than all the aliens ships that have had FTL for thousands of years. If your into hard science or even quasi sci then you will not enjoy the book, but if you want fast paced sci-fi action then you will probably enjoy it. I will most likely read the rest of the series as it is a good read for what it is.