[Critique Group 1] Leonard's comments on Cleora sub

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I am totally unqualified to  evaluate a book reveiew. 



The only thing I can say is that the review isinteresting, 



because I have enjoyed alternative historystories in the past.  



There is a lot of information I findsuperfluous, but what do  I know?  



There is more information about the author  than I am interested in.  



The writer makes statements that she is surewhat the reader’s reaction will be to the book. 



I don’t know if that is done in book reveiews. 



I give credit to  Cleaora for giving this a try.




 


Sitting sub for jan 22




 



 


orry about the invalid characters. I have trieda variety of ways of putting in the text, but they still get put in. No ideawhy. Working on it but don't have a solution at this time.



This is my attempt at a book review.



555 words



"Winds of Wrath" 



Taylor Anderson 



624 pages 



24.75 hours



hard cover $29.40



Kindle, Nook, eBook $9.95 



mass market paperback $8.99



hard cover ISBN 9780399587566



audio ISBN 9781541457324



Genre    Military science fiction,Alternate history, Parallel Universe



Taylor Anderson is A gun maker and forensicballistic archeologist; Taylor has been a technical and dialog consultant formovies and documentaries. He is also a member of the National Historical HonorSociety and the United States field artillery association which awarded him thehonorable order of St. Barbara. He has a master’s degree in history and hastaught that subject at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas. Helives in nearby Granbury with his family.



He has skillfully used his knowledge,experience, and vivid imagination to create this engaging New York Timesbestselling Destroyermen series--A science fiction alternate history tale abouthonor versus evil, love against hate, courage conquering terror, and how truefriendship and understanding will always erode the foundations ofbigotry. 



The series began in June, 2008 with "Intothe Storm", and concludes with book 15 "Winds of Wrath,"released in June, 2020.



If you haven't read the first fourteen, it isnow safe to do so. The adventure is done, so no worries about it not beingcompleted. 



At the beginning of the print and audioversions, there is an excerpt from the forward to the "worlds I'veWondered," University of New Glasco Press, 1956, by Courtney Bradford --Australian naturalist and engineer that was aboard USS Walker when it crossedover, that recaps what has gone before.



The audio book is Narrated by P.J. Ochlan ratherthan William Dufris who was the narrator starting with book 11, "blood inthe water." At the beginning, Ochlan gives a fine tribute to Dufris, who,sadly, lost his battle with cancer prior to the book's release. He isn'tDufris, but he is none-the-less up to the task. 



As in previous volumes, there is some stronglanguage, and the battles are described in graphic detail.



The series chronicles the adventures of thecrews of the destroyer USS Walker (DD-163) and the Japanese battlecruiserAmagi, in the early stages of the War in the Pacific during World War II, beingtransported to an alternate Earth. This Earth is relatively the samegeographically as the one they left, but evolution took a different turn eonsago. 



After capturing the Grik capital in Africa inthe last book, Allied armies march upon the increasingly desperate remnants ofthe Grik army commanded by First General Esshk. In the Caribbean, the Alliesmarshall their "modern" warships--including Captain Reddy's Walker,the captured super-dreadnought Savoie, and even newly built vessels from theUnion, Empire and Republic--against a mighty armada of League battleships for aclimactic duel of fire and flashes.



Loyal fans will not be disappointed. TaylorAnderson has concluded the series with a spectacular ending that, I am sure,will be satisfying to all those who have stuck it out to the end.



A warm personal note from the author appearswhere the list of characters, ships, weapons, and task forces provided inprevious scripts would have been. The maps and diagrams of the ships areincluded in the print version, and all the rest can be found in the previousvolumes, on the author's website, and on the thorough Destroyermen Wiki.




 


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