Duty Honor Planet The Complete Trilogy eBook Rick Partlow
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We thought we were alone...
We’re going to wish we were.
While leading a new special ops unit, Jason and Shannon become the first humans to encounter an alien species via an ambush.
But it’s not as simple and straightforward as an alien invasion.
Now, Fleet Intelligence officers Jason McKay and Shannon Stark are forced to weigh the lives of the people they lead–and the ones they love–against their duty, honor, and planet.
A thrilling space marine tale, an interstellar, political plot with twists that keep you guessing still.
As the story continues through the three books, they begin to wonder if the biggest threat to their interstellar civilization comes from without...or within.
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The complete collection of Duty, Honor, Planet; Honor Bound and The Line of Duty.
Duty Honor Planet The Complete Trilogy eBook Rick Partlow
I actually read Partlow's Duty, Honor, Planet trilogy individually, but I bought the collected works for my wife's Kindle and since I've read all three books, I thought I would leave a cumulative review here.When I finished Duty, Honor, Planet book one, I thought at the time that it was a nice, one-off military science fiction novel. Very well done and better than a lot of books I've bought at the Books a Million or Barnes and Noble that someone actually had published through a publishing company, but nothing of too great a consequence.
Then the second book, Honor Bound, came out and I changed my mind. It was deeper and more mature and so were the characters. Where they'd seemed like the characters in a really involving action movie or war movie in the first book, in the second they started to seem like real people that I knew in my life. And the story seemed to resemble less a science fiction movie and more a movie based on recent history. That's doubly the case for the final volume, The Line of Duty. It deals with a lot of issues that you could read about in today's headlines, and yet it does it in a way that's also timeless and will endure long beyond the current political and economic scandals.
Reading all three books as one continuous story really emphasizes the personal growth of the characters and how much the author has grown as well. I can't get over the continuity of the novels. I can't imagine keeping track of all the details over the three years from the release of the first book to the release of the last one. I have a hard enough time keeping my checkbook balanced and Partlow managed to keep track of the personal, professional and political goings-on of a dozen riveting characters in government, big business and the military. So many things that could have been just loose ends in the first and second book are explained so well by the end of the third. Even things that are specific to the genre, tropes like why would aliens invade and take over another inhabited planet when it's cheaper and easier to get resources in space? That's something that's just taken as a given or hand-waved away in a lot of books, but Partlow obviously put some deep thought into it and came up with ingenious reasons...not one, but two! I was also very impressed by how well the technology holds together. Of course the star travel is from a fictional technology, but he uses extrapolation from things that NASA is studying today. I've read articles online about the kind of warp drive he uses in his books. And beyond that, the technology is very consistent. There are no throwaway technological breakthroughs in one books that are forgotten by the next one. Hell, even little things like communications devices and weapons models change and improve from one book to the other over a period of ten years, just like they do in the real world.
Aside from that, though, the characters in the books are just really well written. They're people who make mistakes and aren't perfect, but they learn from their mistakes and they aren't afraid to go in a whole new direction when it makes sense. They're people I wish we had running our government and our military in real life but they're also people I'd like to hang out with. Too many military SF books have main characters who are cast-iron pricks who treat everyone like crap and don't seem to understand they're doing it. The characters in this trilogy, even when they have to be pricks, they realize it and regret it and it's part of their job they don't like. When people died in these books---and he's not afraid to kill characters, but he doesn't waste them, it's always a meaningful sacrifice and I like that---I felt like a real person had died. It actually made me feel bad. Not everyone gets a happy ending, and not all the bad guys get exactly what's coming to them, but that's real life, too, and enough of the bad guys get theirs in the end to make it feel satisfying. But the characters that do come through don't get screwed over, they get as much happiness as real people ever do. Because there really are no happy endings in life, only satisfying stretches where things go your way for a while until the next crisis comes up. For me, that's my kids getting into trouble at school, but for the people in this series it's a bit more apocalyptic.
The end we get is satisfying though and if that's all the books we get with these characters, I can live with that. I'd rather they end while the writing is still top-notch instead of the author trying to milk more books out of them for more money and winding up with long volumes where nothing happens. I guess that's something self-published authors can't get away with, not like the Robert Jordans and George RR Martins of the world.
The price on these three books is a huge bargain. For the price of the last two books you get the first one thrown in free and I'll tell you what, if I had poured as much time and creativity into producing a product this good, I'd be charging a hell of a lot more for it. $5 is a bargain for the days of great reading you'll get from what comes out to something like 1800 pages of great science fiction.
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Duty Honor Planet The Complete Trilogy eBook Rick Partlow Reviews
I enjoyed the story and got involved with the characters. I would certainly read any additional stories that may come.
OOORRRAAAAHHHHAAA. The space marines are alive and Kicking BUTT!! Hurry up with the next books!!!!!! The way is open for a long running series. Take the lead and run!!!! To the readers...... hang on baby, this may be an exciting runnnnnn!
Very well done, would be five stars except for one small error. The Marines never had, do not have and never will have “medics”. They have Hospital Corpsmen.
This was a fast paced fiction with an interstellar plot. The political story line was in line to the lobbying running rampant today. The good vs evil plot did not come off as a fairy tale ending. The scene at the end, by the statue, depicts the story for all soldiers. Well done!
Well written with well developed characters in an overarching plot strategy. I waited to see if the author would run out of juice, but all three novels hung together. With a modicum of political commentary and sniping at government it remained readable and entertaining throughout. Could become a full-fledged Classic ☺
Just finished reading this trilogy! I could not put My eyes were really tired after reading! Shame on the author! Made mstay up, until I finished the whole trilogy. I would recommend reading it! I loved it and the writing was great.
... almost too much. As with most protagonists in action narrative, McCay is nearly immortal. Or at least it seems that way as he not only survives but triumphs in every adventure. It would be by the skin of his teeth, but still ...
Having said that, this is a very entertaining collection. But you need suspend your disbelief a little. The multiple storylines that weave through the books are tied together in unsuspected ways and it will keep most readers guessing and sometimes surprised.
Most of the real science is appropriate and most, but not all, of the science fiction is plausible.
Worth the time.
I actually read Partlow's Duty, Honor, Planet trilogy individually, but I bought the collected works for my wife's and since I've read all three books, I thought I would leave a cumulative review here.
When I finished Duty, Honor, Planet book one, I thought at the time that it was a nice, one-off military science fiction novel. Very well done and better than a lot of books I've bought at the Books a Million or Barnes and Noble that someone actually had published through a publishing company, but nothing of too great a consequence.
Then the second book, Honor Bound, came out and I changed my mind. It was deeper and more mature and so were the characters. Where they'd seemed like the characters in a really involving action movie or war movie in the first book, in the second they started to seem like real people that I knew in my life. And the story seemed to resemble less a science fiction movie and more a movie based on recent history. That's doubly the case for the final volume, The Line of Duty. It deals with a lot of issues that you could read about in today's headlines, and yet it does it in a way that's also timeless and will endure long beyond the current political and economic scandals.
Reading all three books as one continuous story really emphasizes the personal growth of the characters and how much the author has grown as well. I can't get over the continuity of the novels. I can't imagine keeping track of all the details over the three years from the release of the first book to the release of the last one. I have a hard enough time keeping my checkbook balanced and Partlow managed to keep track of the personal, professional and political goings-on of a dozen riveting characters in government, big business and the military. So many things that could have been just loose ends in the first and second book are explained so well by the end of the third. Even things that are specific to the genre, tropes like why would aliens invade and take over another inhabited planet when it's cheaper and easier to get resources in space? That's something that's just taken as a given or hand-waved away in a lot of books, but Partlow obviously put some deep thought into it and came up with ingenious reasons...not one, but two! I was also very impressed by how well the technology holds together. Of course the star travel is from a fictional technology, but he uses extrapolation from things that NASA is studying today. I've read articles online about the kind of warp drive he uses in his books. And beyond that, the technology is very consistent. There are no throwaway technological breakthroughs in one books that are forgotten by the next one. Hell, even little things like communications devices and weapons models change and improve from one book to the other over a period of ten years, just like they do in the real world.
Aside from that, though, the characters in the books are just really well written. They're people who make mistakes and aren't perfect, but they learn from their mistakes and they aren't afraid to go in a whole new direction when it makes sense. They're people I wish we had running our government and our military in real life but they're also people I'd like to hang out with. Too many military SF books have main characters who are cast-iron pricks who treat everyone like crap and don't seem to understand they're doing it. The characters in this trilogy, even when they have to be pricks, they realize it and regret it and it's part of their job they don't like. When people died in these books---and he's not afraid to kill characters, but he doesn't waste them, it's always a meaningful sacrifice and I like that---I felt like a real person had died. It actually made me feel bad. Not everyone gets a happy ending, and not all the bad guys get exactly what's coming to them, but that's real life, too, and enough of the bad guys get theirs in the end to make it feel satisfying. But the characters that do come through don't get screwed over, they get as much happiness as real people ever do. Because there really are no happy endings in life, only satisfying stretches where things go your way for a while until the next crisis comes up. For me, that's my kids getting into trouble at school, but for the people in this series it's a bit more apocalyptic.
The end we get is satisfying though and if that's all the books we get with these characters, I can live with that. I'd rather they end while the writing is still top-notch instead of the author trying to milk more books out of them for more money and winding up with long volumes where nothing happens. I guess that's something self-published authors can't get away with, not like the Robert Jordans and George RR Martins of the world.
The price on these three books is a huge bargain. For the price of the last two books you get the first one thrown in free and I'll tell you what, if I had poured as much time and creativity into producing a product this good, I'd be charging a hell of a lot more for it. $5 is a bargain for the days of great reading you'll get from what comes out to something like 1800 pages of great science fiction.
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