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A suicidal attack to save a ship; an inadvertent rescue of a Princess; and the fight to return home without being Rogue!
Luke Shepherd is the youngest in his family, and obeys the commands of his father as the Twelve Clans requires, or be labeled a rogue. He and his ship, The Hornet’s Nest, are sent by his father to the front lines of the armies with supplies for his brothers in their desperate galactic battle between the Twelve Clans and the Gimtis.
His chance encounter to save a ship starts a chain of events he couldn’t expect, and the gifts from the High Priest only compounds the questions of those he helps, the enemies he has to fight, and the questions of being obedient... or going Rogue!
ROGUE SHEPHERD WAYWARD HOPE is the first in Chris Vaughn’s ROGUE SHEPHERD SPACE OPERA SERIES, a science fiction space opera that feels like the Death Star ran into the Old Testament and discovered a story of characters and ships from Pirates of The Caribbean. If you enjoy those fast-paced, engaging stories then you’ll love this intergalactic adventure. I enjoyed it in one sitting and look forward to the sequel! I had some questions how the story starts but thankfully I received the prequel after requesting it! ”" The author’s loyal, and prejudiced friend.
Fans of Star Wars, Star Trek, Firefly, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Pirates of the Caribbean are sure to enjoy this new space opera.
ROGUE SHEPHERD Wayward Hope Rogue Shepherd Space Opera Series BOOK 2 edition by Chris Vaughn Religion Spirituality eBooks
Rogue Shepherd: Wayward Hope is the story of the youngest son of a ruling clan on a agricultural planet. Some old guy gives him a starship when he was ten (???). He's now in his teens (I guess?), and is running supplies to the armies (his older brothers) on another star system. He gets involved with the local priest and is ordained, somehow. He tries to help a runaway princess and worries about getting in trouble and being branded a 'rogue' for not obeying his father. Annnnd, that's as far as I got.The story itself has promise. The author really needs to go back and finish high school. Seriously, the writing IS that bad!
The starship... it has sails that must be raised to catch 'ions'. It lands on a planet and must be tied to the dock with ropes, as if it were a ocean going ship, but there is no water at the docks, since when the ship takes off, it stirs up clouds of dust. The ship has room for a crew of 8-10, but the 'Captain', Luke, runs the ship by himself.
There are so many unanswered questions. Things in this story just don't make sense.
The editing is so poor that there doesn't seem to be any effort at all to correct obvious mistakes. There are run-on sentences, abundant misspellings, many sentences don't make any sense at all.
I've only read one other book that was worse that this one, one that averaged 9 misspelled words per page.
Some people tell me that I'm hung up on editing and spelling. Language requires correct spelling for a story to make sense. Three words: to, too and two, all sound the same when spoken, but in a written format, they mean different things. If they are spelled incorrectly, how can the author make the reader understand what he means? Why don't I just let it go and enjoy the story, you may ask? A story is never enjoyable if the reader (me), has to stop at every other sentence in order to figure out what the author meant to say. Poor editing, spelling and sentence structure absolutely RUINS a book for me. I'm certain that I'm not the only one.
As I said earlier, this could be a great story, IF the author gets his skills in line and doesn't put out junk. As it is, this story is junk. Two stars. It would have been one if the story itself had been as good as the editing errors.
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ROGUE SHEPHERD Wayward Hope Rogue Shepherd Space Opera Series BOOK 2 edition by Chris Vaughn Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews
Book Review Rogue Shepherd – Wayward Hope
by Chris Vaughn
Reviewed by J Bryden Lloyd
Note I was gifted a copy of this work for an honest read and review. The following, as with all reviews, is my personal opinion of the submitted text.
Writing Style – 0.5/5.0 (Terrible)
What little structure there is to this book, is decimated by errors and grammatical issues reminiscent of a hastily assembled first draft.
The result is a read with poor flow and very little power to the writing.
Unfortunately, there are brief flashes of genuine ability as well. I say “unfortunately” because it demonstrates that no care was taken during the writing process.
The dialogue is terrible, full of unnecessary repetition and does not support the narrative in any way.
The continual use of formal addressing during conversations and descriptive is amateurish and wholly unnecessary, but more annoying was the continual insistence to refer to the Lieutenant as “Lieut.” In both spoken and narrated text.
Character Development – 1.5/5.0 (Very Poor)
There is a nice, central core of characters here, around which you could build an excellent story.
Indeed, the effort has been made to create these characters, but then they stagnate almost continually, throughout the read.
Luke and Charles develop, but not well, and only in very restricted ways; Luke is given a cloak and suddenly is elevated to a major rank, yet the character continues to find it an embarrassment. Charles goes from being son of the King/General, to being an Executive Officer, to volunteering to fight with the front line fleet, and then finally, he pledges allegiance to Luke… or, more accurately, to Luke’s cloak.
Beyond this, there was little in the way of discernible development in any of the characters, despite the wealth of opportunities the plot offered.
Descriptive – 1.5/5.0 (Very Poor)
In the post-story notes, the author explains how his love of old sailing ships was to be melded into this sci-fi tale.
I understand what he was attempting. It really does not work… at any level.
Casting off lines, raising masts and flags, having open decks protected by some form of energy field… No, there cannot be parity between the two.
Nothing makes sense. There is an awful lot of science which makes a lot of this highly implausible.
To be fair, even if the comparison could be adapted slightly to make it work, the rest of the book is almost devoid of descriptive work, scene building, atmospheric narrative, character descriptive.
Other than Hope (Red hair, green eyes – as per the modern-day penchant for fictional leading ladies) no other character is given anything beyond a passing facial description, and then only occasionally.
The action scenes – the bread and butter of any decent military sci-fi – are so fixated on the characters, they lose the essence of the fight and fade into the ordinary narrative.
It is simply nowhere near good enough.
Language & Grammar – 0.0/5.0 (No Comment)
Well… I say “no comment”, but…
The comma usage (or lack of) and bad punctuation alone is enough to drop this below 2 stars, but as the read progresses, the instances of incorrect tense are battered into insignificance by the sheer number of missing, mis-spelled, and plain incorrect words, which steadily increases to the point that, sometimes, entire passages are rendered unreadable.
This is completely unedited. There is NO knowledge of word usage or grammar. No book should be presented to a paying customer in this form, and I’m sorry, but pleading poverty is not an excuse.
You find an editor. You find proof readers… OBJECTIVE proof readers… and you take their advice until such time as you have enough experience to understand how to write.
This is a sub-standard, ill-prepared text and even the FREE copy I was sent to review should never have seen the light of day.
Plot – 2.0/5.0 (Poor) – VERY MINOR SPOILERS
There IS a very workable central plot here. It’s not great, but it is more than reasonable and has enough strength in it to deliver an outstanding story.
Okay, so…
I GET the sailing ship obsession. It’s foolish to try and shoehorn it into this, but I get it.
I got an inkling of where the author is trying to take the religious tilt of the story… but he really over-does the whole “Nothing is greater than God” thing, to the point where the King is not really in command.
The “Clans” feels too much like a distraction from the whole plot, used more as an excuse for not doing anything, when they are touted as being a warmongering people. Not to mention that they cover several galaxies… so the lack of manpower and resources is surely a total fallacy in relation to the scale of their territories?
Even if they only had a few small systems and planets, surely such resources would afford them a fleet of hundreds of vessels, not the handful sent to fight their mortal enemies?
Too much is thrown into the belief system, which dominates the read and the characters; thus killing the story.
The end is just… there.
The reader sees nothing of the reunion of Hope, Charles and their father, and huge questions surrounding Luke remain completely unanswered, making this completely void of any great climax.
There is certainly nothing in here that gives me any encouragement to want to go and read the next book in the series.
General – 1.5/5.0 (Very Poor)
This is a very frustrating and disappointing book. The nicely depicted cover relates in no way to the content (by the author’s own admission) which just further underlines that this has been a “write-the-story-and-get-it-published-asap” project.
Beyond the cover is a torrid content which I could never recommend in its present iteration.
This needs massive editing and rewriting before it is even fit to be proof-read, and based on this, I would expect that to be a good 12 months away, if it was started now.
The old adage “Everyone has a book in them” may well be true, but this effort proves that not everyone has the ability to write that book.
On completion of my draft review, I always go to see what other reviewers have said. The few comments relating to editing do not even scratch the surface, and the reviews stating that this is well written are so far off the mark, I genuinely wonder what they were reading.
Purchase this at your peril. 1 Grudgingly given Star.
I enjoyed the book. It is an easy enjoyable read with a positive slant about the coming of age young man trying to do the right thing under unfamiliar circumstances. Plenty of action; but, not excessive blood and gore. A young man, a pretty girl with villainous enemies, difficult parents and a supportive family facing seemingly impossible odds meet a strange guide to make entertaining story. I recommend it to anyone who likes action or science fiction and especially to my high school age grandchildren; a promising start to a serial.
This is a very good story, some miss spelling in the story, but all in all a very good read. Lots of action, a little romance. Read it you'll should enjoy it.
I enjoyed it and it kept me reading till the end which is more than I can say for the last couple of books I started. I will read the next one.
With the care of an editor, this book could have been special. It simply felt incomplete and lacking. The good thing is that it's never too late to work with an editor and release a revised edition if the author would like to have a stronger read available!
Rogue Shepherd Wayward Hope is the story of the youngest son of a ruling clan on a agricultural planet. Some old guy gives him a starship when he was ten (???). He's now in his teens (I guess?), and is running supplies to the armies (his older brothers) on another star system. He gets involved with the local priest and is ordained, somehow. He tries to help a runaway princess and worries about getting in trouble and being branded a 'rogue' for not obeying his father. Annnnd, that's as far as I got.
The story itself has promise. The author really needs to go back and finish high school. Seriously, the writing IS that bad!
The starship... it has sails that must be raised to catch 'ions'. It lands on a planet and must be tied to the dock with ropes, as if it were a ocean going ship, but there is no water at the docks, since when the ship takes off, it stirs up clouds of dust. The ship has room for a crew of 8-10, but the 'Captain', Luke, runs the ship by himself.
There are so many unanswered questions. Things in this story just don't make sense.
The editing is so poor that there doesn't seem to be any effort at all to correct obvious mistakes. There are run-on sentences, abundant misspellings, many sentences don't make any sense at all.
I've only read one other book that was worse that this one, one that averaged 9 misspelled words per page.
Some people tell me that I'm hung up on editing and spelling. Language requires correct spelling for a story to make sense. Three words to, too and two, all sound the same when spoken, but in a written format, they mean different things. If they are spelled incorrectly, how can the author make the reader understand what he means? Why don't I just let it go and enjoy the story, you may ask? A story is never enjoyable if the reader (me), has to stop at every other sentence in order to figure out what the author meant to say. Poor editing, spelling and sentence structure absolutely RUINS a book for me. I'm certain that I'm not the only one.
As I said earlier, this could be a great story, IF the author gets his skills in line and doesn't put out junk. As it is, this story is junk. Two stars. It would have been one if the story itself had been as good as the editing errors.
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