The Recruitment Rise of the Free Fleet: A Military Space Opera Series by Michael Chatfield (Epub)

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The day had come…

…Mecha Tail made it to the finals.

Then the aliens arrived, and the world changed.

James Cook lived for immersive combat simulation video games. Waging battle against other teams. Now he will have to fight for real.

It was supposed to be their finest day.

Then space ships appeared in the skies, ‘recruiting’ children, teenagers and young adults. Their bodies weren’t fully developed, their minds malleable.

The Union’s Planetary Defense force needs bodies.

They train the children of earth to be space marines, to board and attack the enemy’s ships. To be the Union’s cannon fodder in their space battles.

If there is a price to be paid, Salchar and his recruits will pay it first.

Then they learned a secret and James gained an opportunity to regain their freedom.

You’ll love James and his story because the twists and turns. The hard hitting reality of children press-ganged into a space fleet.

Read it today.

User’s Reviews

★★★★★ “I really liked this book! I want to read the next one as soon as possible.” – The DaVinci Man★★★★★ “I for one absolutely love the series!! ” – David S. ★★★★★ “Very good read. It made me lose sleep as I couldn’t put it down, the sign of a good book.” – Charles W. ★★★★★ “I really enjoyed this book and look forward to the next” – RJ&JSCopPage★★★★★ “I thought that the book was written in an excellent manner!” – William W. From the Author If you would like to keep up with my work and get information on the newest releases, check out my website michaelchatfield.com/If you would like sneak peeks of my newest novels and audiobooks, sign up for my Patreon! patreon.com/michaelchatfieldwrites

Reviews from Amazon users, collected at the time the book is getting published on UniedVRG. It can be related to shiping or paper quality instead of the book content:

⭐ I only got 17% through the book, and I could not continue on. The author obviously is a fan of Anime and Video Games, and the writing is clearly influenced by that. The characters are not believable: there is no depth to them and their motivation is not well developed. The main character is a paragon of virtue, while his enemies are just evil because that’s what bad guys are in video games and Anime. Whereas in Anime the plot moves fast and in video games, there is actually something to do, this book just drags on in monotony. Pages and page are wasted describing their forced exercise routine. Then some plot happens. Then more pages and pages are wasted describing their forced exercise routines. Rinse, repeat. Somehow the main character knows EVERYTHING even though he has no more experience than the people he is teaching. He supposedly cares for his team, and gets to know them, but only refers to a handful of people by their names. Everyone else is some lady who does this or some guy who has that fault. Ever character has the physique of a body builder and the looks of a model. People all agree with the main character and everything he says is immediately accepted. He makes a “no sex” rule and everyone immediately thinks that’s great. Then he makes a modification to his rules (which other teams adopted) and the update goes out to everyone immediately. Everyone loves him except for the evil people because they are evil. No idea why they are evil, just that they are. Serious issues with this book do not allow me to suspend my disbelief. I am a fan of video games and anime, but even I will advise you to not waste your time here.

⭐ An interesting take on a sci-fi theme that seems to be increasingly popular. Other similar books I can think of off the top of my head are Galactic Empire Wars, Forging Zero, Marine Cadet, Koban, and Star Force Series (B.V. Larson’s, I think there’s a different series also called Star Force). The basic gist of these books is powerful aliens come to Earth to find conscripts for their wars. They tend to be brutally trained in some type of alien boot camp, and when the time is right, strike back at their masters/tormentors. This is not the worst rendition of this type of series I’ve seen, nor is it the best (that would probably go to Stephen Bennett’s Koban series).The theme and plot may be getting a bit predictable and tired, but where this book shows some promise is the main character. He’s interesting and has depth, though does make plenty of mistakes along the way. I find this to be a mostly good thing since there’s no shortage of stories featuring overpowered protagonists who can simply do no wrong and always come out on top. The other bright spot is that the author has laid some interesting groundwork in this book, and there is potential for the story to truly become something unique in future installments. His worldbuilding hints at a distinctly different universe full of possibilities. For that reason alone I could see myself continuing with the series.The minor grievance I have is that “mecha” in this world are more or less powered armor suits. I was hoping for some giant robot action here at the mention of mecha. It doesn’t really detract from the story since powered armor suits are still an interesting staple of sci-fi stories.

⭐ What you have here is imaginative. It’s pretty vast. Maybe a little too idealized since you seemed hesitant to take it too hard on your characters, which I get. You probably based a lot of them off people you know, or characters in books you’ve read—or from some other medium.As far as I could tell, your main protagonist had a single character flaw—which was hardly present at times—his inability to trust in and rely upon others. It’s a decent fault to start with, but I was hoping for more. Lots more. I mean, as human beings we don’t all have just a single fault. We have a myriad of them. It’s what makes us dynamic and it’s a large part of what makes us human.My recommendation:Find a group of literarily knowledgable peers and have them go through your next book as you write it. Or hire an editor. If you’re still at college, I recommend finding an English or philosophy professor and befriend them. Then ask them for a favor: to go through your book with the fine tooth combs the Space Balls brigade used to comb the desert for Lone Star and his companions in that classic (which I hope everyone in this review section—including you—has watched) and sort out every grammatical (as well as logistical and syntactical) error in it. Because dude, there’s a part in this book where you left on the page all in caps after a sea and an ocean of dialogue something along the lines of:”SO MUCH DIALOGUE CANT TELL WHOS TALKING NEED TO PUT A HE OR SHE SAID” (or whatever)Picture meeting some of your characters. If they seem way too unbelievable, it’s probably because they are. And if you can’t buy them, I guarantee none of your readers would be able to either.Read the Star Force series by B. V. Larsen if you haven’t already. His writing and the story in that series could teach you so much.Don’t let this review or any other critique like it bring you down. Use it to make yourself better. These suggestions would have helped me a bunch if they’d been given to me at an earlier juncture.I hope all of this will help you.

⭐ This is a great story. It is a fast paced clasic theme of alien abduction with the humans turning the tables on their captors. There were a couple plot lines and elements in sub plots that I could have nit picked but for a first book of this length by a new author it is an amazing work. It did a good job of balancing character development over multiple cast members while driving the plot forward.It is in the style of space opera where the characters/humans are larger than life and learn faster, hit harder, do better etc… So a little suspension of disbeleaf of how you can go from captured and slave to running a fleet in a short time period is needed. That being said I didn’t want to put this book down. It is very fast paced and has a straight forward linear plot that hits a subelement, drives throught it, and comletes it before moving on to the next. The author also did a good job of the ending. It wrapped up the last subplot and left us looking forward to the next book as they head off to free earth.They only reason that I gave it 4 stars is toward the end of the book there were are lot of editing errors. Wrong words and incomplete sentences and paragraphs that only made sense if you thought of them in context. It has the feel to me that the author worked really hard on this and torward the last 1/4 of the book or so started to get tired. There are a few places there that look like rough drafts. The plot and story are still excelent but the editing is substantially less well done than in the preceding chapters.

⭐ The author has a good, if well worn premise for a story and, the first half of the book executes it relatively well. However, something bad happened at roughly the half-way point of the book as spelling, grammar and sentence structure deteriorated to the point where the book became almost unreadable at about 80% into it. I saw pieces of dialog repeated a page apart in a “cut-n-paste” fashion, there were long pieces of dialog w/o references (explicit or via context) to who was speaking (this was actually pointed out by an ALL CAPS proofreading note that was left in the final text). If I had to guess, I would bet that the author either got tired of the book after doing the hard lifting in the first half to make it well-written or he was under some sort of deadline issue where he had to rush it out.

⭐ Aliens come to earth and kidnap kids from a computer gaming competition to use as slave mercenaries. I good opening to your basic Humans will overcome the stupid aliens story. A story I am eager to enjoy.This novel has multiple problems. Grammar, Spelling, Characters, Aliens, but above all a lack of firm editing. The pages are riddled with basic spelling mistakes, wrong use of homophones, garbled sentences and even personal notes from the author to the author. These simple and annoying errors really get in the way of maintaining the narrative and flow of book.Aliens, should be alien, not just Humans in a rubber suit. The lack of any real alien mindsets, behaviors or emotions in these aliens, renders them just humans with funny bodies. It’s a common complaint with many books.The start is confusing and foreshadowing. Not a good way to begin. It takes quite a few pages for the author to find his mojo and deliver some good pages that you can enjoy. If you can hang on the story picks up and can be enjoyed.If you can ignore the glaring editing failures this story gallops along in a young adult fiction sort of way and you’ll end up looking forward to the next installment.

⭐ The growth of regular human kidds to something vastly more terrifying for their captors.Some of the personal conflicts i did not like, i was hoping they would get over it and smart up.I really did not like the transformation, un asked an not needed for a general.May be because ido not like nc transformations.And i did not like the pg feel i felt in some parts, details of crimes glossed over, mentions of sex almost non existant for the most part.American audience can handle gore just fine as usual, but portraying horny stupid teenagers, not so much.I liked it allot, even tho i remember a couple editing mistakes.

⭐ This book is probably what a first draft looks like before it has been edited. The concept and storyline are everything I enjoy in a military space opera. The stories pace, twists and turns, and overall plot are very good … Good enough that I rated this four stars despite the typing errors.I got the feeling that the text was generated from a verbal input and not carefully reviewed, especially in the latter portions of the story. Their are incomplete sentences, missing words, strange punctuation, and that old bugaboo, spell checker wrong picks.Bottom line, a few days of editing is all that is needed to make this a very enjoyable read.

⭐ I write Science Fiction books, so I am always a little reluctant to give a poor review to a fellow author. Chatfield has an interesting spin on the idea of kidnapping humans to make them into soldiers, but I bogged down early because the writing is lackluster and the punctuation is, at times, fanciful at best. I learned the hard way with my first book that you cannot proof read your own work and need an outside editor. Assuming Mr. Chatfield has the writing bug and will be producing more novels, my strong advice is that he team up with a good editor. This novel sometimes reads as if it was dictated, which really doesn’t work. Some people can carry stodgy writing by having an enthralling story (The Martian), and some can succeed with brilliant writing even when not much happens in the plot, but most of us mere mortals have to present a decently written novel if we are to keep the reader with us. So, only two stars. I’ll take a look at his next book to see how his writing is coming, but I cannot recommend this book.

⭐ A good start to a space opera. Battles, rebellion, all that stuff is good and well described. Character development is pretty good as is world building. The main character is a little too Superman IMO so everything goes right for him and ,of course, he is the best fighter, fleet commander, creative thinker., etc. But at least he is horrible in dealing with his love interest… But even that goes on and on while he never seems to get what the issues are in that relationship.Anyways, a good first book, with all the basics well done except for oversimplification of the seemingly indestructible and infallible main character. I mean, really? he just reattaches a cut off leg and keeps fighting? That was a step too far. Otherwise… Recommended.

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