The formatting, proofreading, editing and writing are all amateurish, immature, unprofessional and not worthy of a public, commercial distribution. If the author had included in the crew, an artificial intelligence expert and a psychiatrist specializing in abnormal psychology, maybe it could be pulled off, maybe. It totally misses and made it difficult to fully read the book and not just stop.

Herein lies one of the multitude of issues that make Book 2 so bad-sentence after sentence, paragraph after paragraph, page after page, of boring, sophomoric, snarky, stupid, unfunny dialogue between the lead character and the AI. The AI has saved humanity and is damaged-missing memories, personality disorders and severely emotionally stunted. The lead character, in alliance with a rescued, super intelligent AI, along with SpecOp forces from various earth militaries, take a captured alien star cruiser on an expedition to prevent warring aliens from returning to earth, find ancient artifacts from the ancient race of 'Elders' that created the AI, and help it reconnect with the 'Collective.'

The storyline has near future humanity, suddenly thrown into intergalactic conflict between various alien races of different technological levels, teetering on the razor's edge of extinction. The flaws of Book 1 (a book that was entertaining and a decent SciFi read), have totally sublimated the storyline and grown, making Book 2 barely readable. 'SpecOps,' Book 2 the sequel in the 'Expeditionary Force,' series, is a very disappointing and poor effort. Craig lives in Virginia with his wife, who loves him even though he perpetually refuses to clean the garage. The ExForce series, as it is known to fans, has gone on to 10 books/audiobooks, many of which have hit the NYT best-seller list, with a 11th book releasing June 2021 and 14 books planned.Ĭraig has also published a spin-off series, ExForce: Mavericks an ExForce audio drama, Homefront a fantasy trilogy, Ascendent and a young adult space opera, Aces. The Columbus Day audiobook was a huge hit, and a finalist for an Audie Award as Audiobook of the Year. The breakout success of Columbus Day (Expeditionary Force, Book 1) reached new heights when Podium Audio released it in audio format, narrated by Audie Award Winner R.C. Within 6 months of his first ebook release, he was able to quit his day job and pursue a full-time writing career.

Writing fiction at nights and on weekends, he finally independently published three novels on Amazon. If you want to stay up to date on releases, receive promotion alerts and speak to me directly, please join my Facebook Page:Ĭraig Alanson used to create financial reports for a large IT services company.

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