Customer Reviews

Voidhawk

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(13)
3 star:		(9)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

This book has a wonderful blend of humour, science-fiction and magic. I highly recommend it to any fans of sci-fi/fantasy books with a quirky sense of humour. This book is very reasonably priced for such a fun read, and although personally I got it free from Smashwords, I would definitely pay for it.

I found the book a bit unusual at first, mainly due to references in the book being different to what we would expect. It did take a bit of getting used to, but when I had got used to them, the book took a life of its own and I was always wanting to find out what happened next.

Would recommend this book, but would warn the reader to persevere at first and you will enjoy it.

I really enjoyed this book. Being an avid scifant/fic reader I easily accepted and went along with the premise the space ships were wooden sailing ships with the ability to sail through space. No rayguns here but normal pistols, with bullets, side by side with swords and other medieval devices. The author handles and conveys the concepts in this world he has created with skill. I felt at ease and impressed with things and the story carried well with me.
I'll try not to spoil things but the story centres on one man and a loyal friend who together do up a dilapidated ship turning it into something special. The tale aquires characters in the form of new crew members and shows the shaping of the crew and how they become almost a family.
The characters face many challenges and adventures which influence their development thus making an enjoyable read. I have just purchased the second in the series and look forward to it.

I got my Kindle at Christmas and have enjoyed browsing through the various freebies out there. Most have been woeful, some good, and some better. As a Fantasy/SF fan this is probably the best one I have found so far.

The bad first. You're going to need to suspend your disbelief a fair bit. Air bubbles around everything? Ships in space? Hmmmm. It also wheels out a fair few fantasy tropes, including half elves, stuck up elves and Dwarves with a miners accents (though this time it was Welsh rather than Scottish. I imagined him with the voice of friends as I'm Welsh, it entertained me).

But don't hold any of that against it! It is easily one of the most entertaining reads I have read, paid and free combined, and is far better than any other free Kindle book I've found.

It is strikingly similar in concept to Firefly (it even has some enemy ships in it that are called firefly). With plenty of episodes based on jobs that you could easily imagine the Firefly crew doing.

In fact it reads as a series of episodes. Whilst there is an undercurrent of a plot (that presumably gets increased in later books), for the most part the action is in a series of episodes that build on the feeling of the crew.

And it works. I tend to prefer 'epic fantasy', with nations against nations. There are hints of that going on, but these episodes grip and entertain you.

This is not a book without flaws, but it is a book that is great fun, gives you interesting characters and is well worth a read. Personally the technique of hooking you with book 1 has worked on me, I'll be buying number 2. But even if you have no intention of it, this book is well worth a read. And for free, you can't go wrong!

I really did not get into this at all. The weird air bubble floating wooden ships in space just didn't do it for me, and the characters bored me too. I can't give this a one star, as I did read most of it, and it's a well-written book - however the universe the author created rebelled against my brain and I just thought it was naff.

This is fantasy travel between worlds, magic binds air to the wooden hull. dwarves, elves all the usual, elves are one group of bad guys. The personalties and the plot make this story, our likeable rouge and his eclectic selected crew dance on the edge of triumph or disaster all the way.

Women are unable to go for more than 5 pages without their heaving well endowed boobs popping out. And then another female is added and another and every fight seems to blow only the women's clothes off. Bit where elf woman shaves her vagina with a dagger in front of two blokes was the point I gave up.

Really tried to like it as sci-fi mixed with fantasy seemed interesting. But seems more like soft porn sure would be a favourite with teenage boys.

A top read keeps you engrossed throughout this book was a free down load and was not a let down

Halstead has a vivid imagination, and has created an impressively different universe. Unfortunately, he's short on details.

The 'spaceships' are wooden, and armed with catapults - but beyond that, there was no real description. Several chapters in, I still had no idea what these vessels looked like, how they operated, or how this very different universe worked! For some that might not be a problem - but for me it's a big one. I need to be able to visualise what's happening, see the characters and their environment. And though I can suspend disbelieve sufficiently to cope with wooden spaceships, there needs to be some sort of logical reason (however fantastic) for things being that way.

Lacking that background development, I would at least need something in the characters, the dialogue or the plot to keep me reading. None of that happened. I gave up on it - reluctantly, because the idea had potential, but it needed much more work on the detail to capture my interest.

I normally like this sort of thing, but i really just couldn't get to grips with this. Kind of whimsical and boring really. i wont be following the saga.