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The Last Praetorian (2000)

by Mike Smith(Favorite Author)

3.71 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Romance

series

The Redemption Trilogy

review 1: Just finished reading this book. A brilliant read. I picked this book up on Amazon for free. To be honest, the cover (and, well, the title too) attracted me. When I began to read it, I hadn't even read the blurb, so I didn't know what I was getting in to.Good thing that I love to read a good military scifi novel. Which this is. Actually, better than good. Smith does an excellent job of creating an invincible character out of Jon Radec, the Commander of the Emperor's Praetorian Guards, yet making him still human.The book is really two in parallel. In the first, we see what appears to be the beginning of the end of a five-hundred-year Empire, while in the second, we see events that happen five years later.I really enjoyed reading this book. It has everything going for it, al... moreong with quite a few surprise elements. Smith doesn't hesitate to put his characters through their paces. His vision of where the events take place is clearly put into words - excellent world-building.If it weren't for the fact that this book requires, in some places, extensive editing, it would have got five stars. It is only for this reason that I have allocated four stars to it.Mike Smith is going to be a force to be reckoned with. I will be looking for the rest of the trilogy.
review 2: Have to agree with the negatives - this is a poorly written, edited book. Far too many grammatical errors and very cliched. I love dw's reference to the main character coming from a Dos Equus commercial - too true.I can see why it has some good reviews - the story line is enjoyable enough, and if a decent writer took the time to do a very full rewrite - adding more depth to characters etc, then it could be pretty good. But as it stands - fine for a freebie, but certainly would not pay for it. less

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