Space Fleet Academy

Year Two

De: Jon Del Arroz, Vox Day

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Survival of the fittest in space just became a lot more dangerous.

Eleven colonies have gone dark across Federation space. Senior cadets are being deployed to a frontier that devours ships and returns only silence. Constantine Ramsey returns to a Space Fleet Academy transformed by war. He and his fellow second-years are being thrust into leadership roles for which they're not ready. The new curriculum sets aside theory for brutal new training in surviving first contact with alien predators and making terrible decisions where every choice comes with a body count.

But when their latest training exercise feels too dangerously specific, Constantine begins to suspect the Academy has crossed a line. As rumors about forbidden genetic programs and agency crackdowns intensify, he's forced to confront a terrifying question: How far will the Federation go to indoctrinate the leaders humanity needs to survive in a harsh and unforgiving universe? And when the Mandate demands the unthinkable of him, will he have the strength to do what he believes to be right?

Continue the adventure into the hard science of Biostellar! Grab Space Fleet Academy: Year Two, where the training wheels come off and the real war begins. Perfect for fans of Ender's Game, Starship Troopers, and The Expanse.

Too melodramatic, Ender's Game Knock off

The AI performance had a harder time with some words in this book. I liked the first book as an intro to this universe, but the second book fell short of what I wanted. I wanted more world building, more description on technology, more political depth and more strategic insight of what the Star Fleet really is.

Instead you get a knock off of the climax of Ender's Game and a melodramatic half baked romance. More so there is a presented moral question of one part of humanity bearing the brunt of the sacrifice of a natural selection doctrine to maintain genetic health and diversity in humanity. None of the cadet's pitch the idea that the solution to the moral question of this policy is to instead of limiting the sacrifice to the colonies and expanding it to all worlds. Pitching the Idea that Earth should have its population, selected by lottery, migrated out into colonies.

The book like the first one could have used a dedicated editor, and another round of drafts. There are many times where points and lines of conversation are repeated, often word for word in the next chapter or scene. This is spread throughout the book and is very jarring.

I think the writer needs to slow down, and put more work in making an better story and product.