Captain Jack Romanov has flown his last mission, and is facing mandatory retirement. Just as he is handed his papers by his gleeful superior, he gets another set of orders superceding those, which see him promoted and in charge of the battleship Delta Orionus, the “Hunter”, Hunter was used in the last war against robotic aliens, but that was two hundred years ago. She has been mothballed and converted to a museum since.
But as Jack finds out, the ship is almost operational, and with some clever bargaining, he gets the ship operational again, and not a second too soon. Reports have just come in that the aliens have resurfaced, nearly two hundred years after they last attacked and caused untold destruction. The Hunter is pressed into service, and with a crew staffed with green recruits from the training institute, retired personnel back in uniform, and video game enthusiasts who have flown the battleship in simulation, Hunter takes on the locust drones yet again.
Let me be frank. This is bad. Poor writing, cliched characters, predictable plot, and abysmal dialogues cannot come together and make an interesting read. The way the book progresses, more often than not, the reader is forced to just roll eyes and mentally scream at the authors to get the plot moving. There is absolutely zero depth to the story, and the narration is a tedious sequence of events with contrived drama. I would not recommend this book.