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    Victorious

    By Jack Campbell

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    As war continues to rage between the Alliance and Syndicate Worlds, Captain "Black Jack" Geary is promoted to admiral-even though the ruling council fears he may stage a military coup. His new rank gives him the authority to negotiate with the Syndics, who have suffered tremendous losses and may finally be willing to end the war. But an even greater alien threat lurks on the far side of the Syndic occupied space.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTitan Books
    Release dateAug 8, 2011
    ISBN9780857685506
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    Jack Campbell

    Jack Campbell has been fly fishing for over 30 years throughout the Western United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, South America, and various points of the compass. After retiring as an independent businessman, he became a Director of Cascade Guides and Outfitters, the premier outfitter in Central Oregon. Residing in California, Jack and his wife Marcia spend two to three months a year at their vacation home in Sunriver, Oregon. He is an accomplished fly fisherman and enjoys gathering his friends for travel world wide using fur and feathers seeking fish.

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    • 5/5
      Awesome space battles against huge odds.
    • 3/5
      I find this series less and less interesting as I work thorough it. The basic problem is that the characters lack depth. We only see their professional lives.None of them have any interests or hobbies. None of them follow sport, play cards, gamble, go to the loo, pin up posters in their quarters, listen to music, stitch buttons on their uniforms, race down a corridor -and none of the crew on their ships do either.They don't feel real, and thus I've lost involvement with them.
    • 4/5
      What more can I add to my previous comments. I will carry on with the series because while the books don't move you on in the story very often the are easy reading and make for pleasant reading with the afternoon coffee. I've just finished the whole series and realised that I have enjoyed them much more than I realised.
    • 5/5
      A fitting conclusion to the series. Like with his other two sets of novels (published as John Hemry) this one leaves room for an expansion of the universe without demanding a sequel or feeling incomplete.
    • 5/5
      Overall a pretty satisfying ending to a decent space navy science fiction series. While the series overall had its kinks, the improved quality of story and character with each successive book made this finale one to appreciate.
    • 3/5
      Finally, it is over. This series should have been half the size it ended up being. Why, because it repeated. Then the next failing of the author, it repeated. So all these extra pages, were just rehashes of scenes that had already taken place with a new noun to show that it was a different place, but the same thing happening, or all the characters talking about how that thing that happened before was just like this, or do you remember the thing that happened, let me refresh your memory by describing it for pages.So many pages that the author stretched out his mercenary hand for three extra books.Where do we succeed and fail with this tale though. We reach a conclusion, finally. The war is over. Our angst ridden hero can retire. Accept that the entire book has a subtheme where he won't retire and will be back fighting the new threat instantly.Prepare yourself for another six book arc that can be told in three. So much time is spent on high school he said she said that you hope either the hero or his untouchable love interest die so it is over. This series was never a romance, and certainly in high school so much desire for another never took up so much of ones life.So what makes a science fiction naval epic any good, action. In this case, since the hero commands a giant fleet, naval combat. Which is over so quickly you could have blinked. Pages in the front serve as a guide to tell you how many ships the hero commands and where some were lost. But who cares. The author will tell you in one half sentence how a certain ship, of which you have never heard, has gone down. Then he will track it through the entire series. But you are not invested in those characters. Not even many aboard the flagship. The secondary characters have no personalities for he has invested all of that into the hero.You thus don't really care about anyone else in the series. Several loose ends are let loose, and the inability of anyone but the hero to think has to leave you wondering how in the 100 years the hero was asleep, the gene pool could have been reduced to recreating the idiots amongst us.If you read any book in the series, get it from the library. Skim it and forget it. There are much better combat and fleet arc books out there. Certainly many that one can believe in the hero, the other characters, and the situation.
    • 4/5
      A worthy ending to the series.A follow-up series about the aliens would not be a surprise, but either way will be fine.
    • 3/5
      I really liked this series, but to say this last book was predictable would be an understatement. The fleet is home, now it is time for politics, then the inevitable confrontation with the aliens. Not bad, just predictable and after 5 books, not very exciting.
    • 2/5
      This book was predictable and long winded. At times I was getting frutrated with the long convaluted conversations about what was happening and what might be happening and why it was happening (I guess I've read to many of these type of books. I know what's happening).One of the things that attracted me to this series of books was it was supposed to be a six book series (meaning there would be and end). But the author is going to do two spin off series. One about the fall of the syndac. worlds and to continue with the story of "Black Jack" Geary.
    • 3/5
      No script, no interest (like other reviews stated, this book is too predictable), yet still fun to read (because no brain is needed). This one is a little short anyway!
    • 5/5
      I thought Victorious was a fitting end to the series. Lots of great space battles. I'm surprised with the reviews that seem upset about the predicable nature of this book, personally I like that the author doesn't hide things that would allow the reader to figure out what is going on and two doesn't introduce plot twists for the sake of plot twists. A battered enemy really only has so many option and I'm glad that there was no strange surprises at the end. I feel the book set up the aliens well and how we get a second series about that and how people in the future dress funny.
    • 4/5
      Similar in quality to other books in this series but somehow I enjoyed it less. Maybe I just got tired from Jack Geary or maybe it's somewhat awkward and boring romance line especially pronounced in the end. Still, I will be looking forward to 'Lost Frontier' series.
    • 4/5
      This is the book I have been waiting for! Finally, questions are going to be answered and issues are going to be resolved, right? Not so fast. Syndics are defeated but Geary and the fleet must return to defeat the aliens....check. But, who are the aliens? Why are they here? Yet, there are more books? What about them? Will this series go on forever?
    • 5/5
      Victorious is the final book in the Lost Fleet series by Jack Campbell. Having finally got the fleet back home Admiral Geary has to turn it around in order to save the Alliance’s enemies from an un-known alien race. While I enjoyed the story I found the explanation about how ships are pulverised by core explosions weak and unconvincing. Space is a vacuum and so any debris not actually caught up in the direct core fireball would only be given a different vector by any “shock” wave. At least that is how I see it. I found the series as a whole a better than average space opera.
    • 4/5
      Victorious is a thrilling end to the first arc of Campbell’s Lost Fleet saga. The Alliance fleet goes back to where Geary’s command began to force an end to hostilities, and Black Jack is forced to deal with more intelligent and more dangerous foes. With the Syndic worlds collapsing, the mysterious Enigma aliens trying to force humans to leave the border world of Midway, and political games coming to a head, Black Jack is as strong as ever, with the help of Duellos, Tulev, Desjani, the marines, and Rione. The Alliance High Council and other fleet military are introduced, providing an even more startling look at the stark differences between Geary and the modern world. As Fleet Admiral John Geary leads his sailors on another journey, their fantastic loyalty and belief in him and in themselves creates a military wonder, and the changes Geary has wrought from the first novel to the sixth are readily apparent.
    • 5/5
      I’ve been meaning to write this review for two months, when I finished this book and the series. I have so many books sitting around waiting to be reviewed, it’s not even funny. As a result of this long delay, I’ve unfortunately forgotten most of the book’s details and can’t give it the thorough type of review I would normally want to give to a Lost Fleet book. Oh well.This is the book I – and everyone else – have been waiting for! Finally, questions are going to be answered and issues are going to be resolved, right? Well, most are! Captain “Black” Jack Geary and the battered Alliance fleet, led by his ship’s captain, Tanya Desjani (who we’ve all been rooting for to get together with Geary, despite their differences in rank), have finally, finally, finally, after five long, repetitive damn books made it home from the Syndicate Worlds and Geary prepares to give his report as fleet captain. However, the Alliance Council is so scared of him and his power, that they make him Fleet Admiral and send him right back to the scene of the first book, the capital of the Syndicate Worlds, to force their surrender and end this 100-year war. And he does it. And, naturally, kicks some ass doing it.However, there’s the disturbing mystery and question of the aliens. Who are they, what do they want, and how does the Alliance defeat them if it comes to that? Naturally, Geary takes his fleet to the other end of Syndicate space where he finally encounters the aliens himself and, naturally, kicks ass. Because that’s what happens in Jack Campbell’s books. The hero cannot.ever.lose. And that’s it. Right? Oh yeah, there’s that last one little issue of Desjani and Geary, right? Will they finally become an official item? Well, Campbell tries to throw a twist in there and scare the reader, but you pretty much know what will happen. You’d have to be an idiot not to.I gave most of the books in this six book series four stars because they were pretty good, well told/written, interesting (for the most part), had some good drama and mystery, just the right amount of politics, and some kick ass space battles. My primary complaint book after book was the sheer lunacy on the part of the author to use the weaponry he used on his spaceships based on 18th century Earth ships (grapeshot – literally). It’s utterly ridiculous. However, I’m not going to knock a star off for that today because I finally felt pretty satisfied with one of these books and found the ending pretty satisfying as well. Most definitely not the best military science fiction I’ve ever read, but not bad. I’d read more of his stuff. That’s about the highest praise I know how to give. Five stars and recommended if you’re reading the series.