Series: Book 1 in the The Hell Hole Trilogy series
Rating: ***
Tags: EN-SciFi, Lang:en
Summary
Bestselling
authors Herbert and Anderson start a space opera series
with a tale quite similar to Frank Herbert's Dune in setting,
theme, and conflict. On the dangerous frontier planet Hellhole,
defeated and exiled rebel Gen. Tiber Adolphus continues his
honorable opposition to the political scheming and selfish
machinations of the Crown Jewel worlds and grandmotherly Diadem
Michella Duchenet. Adolphus and his companions work in secret
to undermine the royal space travel monopoly and form a
coalition of Deep Zone planets. Diadem Michella, embroiled in
the schemes of the ancient noble families on the decadent
capital planet Sonjeera, is too distracted to recognize the
danger Adolphus poses. Repeated mentions of minor details bloat
the novel's length, characters are one-dimensional, and the
tale has an unsatisfying cliffhanger conclusion.
