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'This is pulp fiction at it best, and it's great fun, with a quality of earnest integrity that comes from its author's real-world experience in the US Navy.' --GQ Magazine
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As war continues to rage between the Alliance and Syndicate Worlds, Captain 'Black Jack' Geary is promoted to admiral-even though the ruling council fears he may stage a military coup. His new rank gives him the authority to negotiate with the Syndics, who may finally be willing to end the war. But an even greater alien threat lurks on the far side of the Syndic occupied space.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I've really liked the Lost Fleet series. They are really easy reads, great escapism, not too deep just lots of big battles with a simple sub plot. In the last book Black Jack and the fleet got home safely and now they are going back to finish the job. Without giving too much a way the story is all in the title as Jack goes back and kicks some more Syndic butt and then some alien butt for good measure. Overall I was a little disappointed with the book as it wasn't the best in the series. The battle scenes were a bit too easy and simple and it felt like the series had run its course with the author trying to wrap everything up quickly and neatly. However its still a good read which I demolished in a few hours, so fully recommend.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Book six in a series of six military science fiction novels about the lost fleet. In an interstellar war between two groups of humans, the alliance and the syndic, an alliance fleet is lost behind enemy lines and must rely on man out of time John 'Black Jack' Geary to get them home.
Despite exposition to bring readers up to speed at the start of this volume are you really going to begin a series by reading the final book? Start with Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, Book 1) to see if this series is for you.
So what can those who've followed this all the way expect from the final volume?
It runs 331 pages and is divided into twelve chapters.
After a little bit of exposition at the start we're then into political discussions between geary and the alliance leaders. These are pretty good and the pages fly by as you read.
Then the fleet has the mission that the end of book five set up for them to do. The battles that result are different from the ones before because the syndic is now facing lost resources and political infighting and how they respond to this becomes quite interesting. It can also result in a good amount of tension.
This section does lose a little bit of pace in it's second half though, but it's all resolved in a rather realistic manner.
The alien threat is also dealt with well, giving them a decent amount of page time, keeping them nicely enigmatic, and not dispatching them too easily.
Which just leaves the love triangle. It's been obvious from the end of book five how this will go, but will the two of them manage to get together, especially when one keeps putting their foot in it? Let's just say that the final chapter is pure hollywood, but It made me react in the same way as the characters who watch these scenes unfold do. And it also made for a very satisfying ending.
This really does wrap up the whole story nicely, but it does keep a few little doors open for possible future stories in this setting. And on the basis of this, I'll be back for them. A good final volume to an enjoyable series.
Despite exposition to bring readers up to speed at the start of this volume are you really going to begin a series by reading the final book? Start with Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, Book 1) to see if this series is for you.
So what can those who've followed this all the way expect from the final volume?
It runs 331 pages and is divided into twelve chapters.
After a little bit of exposition at the start we're then into political discussions between geary and the alliance leaders. These are pretty good and the pages fly by as you read.
Then the fleet has the mission that the end of book five set up for them to do. The battles that result are different from the ones before because the syndic is now facing lost resources and political infighting and how they respond to this becomes quite interesting. It can also result in a good amount of tension.
This section does lose a little bit of pace in it's second half though, but it's all resolved in a rather realistic manner.
The alien threat is also dealt with well, giving them a decent amount of page time, keeping them nicely enigmatic, and not dispatching them too easily.
Which just leaves the love triangle. It's been obvious from the end of book five how this will go, but will the two of them manage to get together, especially when one keeps putting their foot in it? Let's just say that the final chapter is pure hollywood, but It made me react in the same way as the characters who watch these scenes unfold do. And it also made for a very satisfying ending.
This really does wrap up the whole story nicely, but it does keep a few little doors open for possible future stories in this setting. And on the basis of this, I'll be back for them. A good final volume to an enjoyable series.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I've just finished reading 'Victorious'; the last book in the 'Lost Fleet' series and I must say, I'm fairly happy about the ending this series has had. The author ties up all the loose ends quite neatly and the storyline comes to a rather satisfying conclusion.
The book itself though, isn't quite as good as the other books in the series. It's somewhat uneven and thin in places; in some parts of the story it's just a little too easy for the main characters to win their fights, but at other times, thankfully, the story works very well and you're totally absorbed in the book.
The ending to the `Lost Fleet' series is big-time Hollywood-blockbuster-mode, but you do kind of accept it as fitting in with the premise for the series, even though it has a rather high corniness-factor.
All in all though, `Victorious' is a must-read ending to the `Lost Fleet' series. Black Jack Geary is finally home in Alliance Space for good, and he can begin his new life of peace and tranquillity.
...well almost; the book does have a rather blatant line-up to a new series.
But hey - that's quite all right with me!
The book itself though, isn't quite as good as the other books in the series. It's somewhat uneven and thin in places; in some parts of the story it's just a little too easy for the main characters to win their fights, but at other times, thankfully, the story works very well and you're totally absorbed in the book.
The ending to the `Lost Fleet' series is big-time Hollywood-blockbuster-mode, but you do kind of accept it as fitting in with the premise for the series, even though it has a rather high corniness-factor.
All in all though, `Victorious' is a must-read ending to the `Lost Fleet' series. Black Jack Geary is finally home in Alliance Space for good, and he can begin his new life of peace and tranquillity.
...well almost; the book does have a rather blatant line-up to a new series.
But hey - that's quite all right with me!
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Intelligent and thoughtful military sci fi
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Published 7 months ago by Daniel Cann
A good read.
This series was very good.
I was pleased to see a shift from the typical Star Wars / Star Trek approach to space battles. Read more
I was pleased to see a shift from the typical Star Wars / Star Trek approach to space battles. Read more
Published 9 months ago by C Robertson
Multi-level Space Opera
This is the sixth and final volume of the Lost Fleet series, with Geary now a Fleet Admiral (temporary) and leading the reinforced Fleet on a mission to end the 100-year Syndic... Read more
Published 9 months ago by John Middleton
Great book
"Victorious" is the 6th book in the series and, if you have read the previous five books then the outcome is fairly obvious. But still a cracking good read.
Published 9 months ago by South West Bill
Ends well
I thought that this was the best of the series. Others have said that a lot happens in this the last book of 6. Read more
Published 10 months ago by J. G. Taylor
Lost Fleet Victorious
This is an excellent series - but you to need to get all of them to understand the situation. The books do tend to the US side of the military, which can be annoying, particularly... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Ian Shaw
rewrite?
An excellent continuation of the series, but I have to wonder at the speed with which the 'director's cut' is spilling over into books from films--not much seems to have changed.
Published 12 months ago by A. G. L. Williams
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