Rise Of Mankind: The Complete Series Books 1-10 (John Walker Box Sets) Kindle Edition

Storyline was good, action imaginative and ongoing, and projection of current knowledge and technical capabilities believable for what the future may hold. Enjoyable read.

Very well written. A few grammar/spelling errors but not distracting. Great character development and linkage from book to book.Good read for sci-go fans.

This is the third series from this author I have read.All have been exceptional.This series is another feather in your cap Mr. Walker.

I loved this series of books. The action starts in book 1 and it continues through every book. It keeps you on the edge of your seat and you can't wait to start the next book. There are so many twists and turns it just keeps you going. Best series I've read yet.

I dislike the phrase he uses "clicked her/his tongue", could he possibly find a subsitute phrase. Otherwise I will continue reading his stories, but I take pause when I come across it in his books and wonder why he uses that one.Thanks FWB

Good read. Great action and the story flowed very well. Only thing I saw as a detriment to the story is that in space, there is no atmosphere to propagate a shock wave, and there is no gravity, so ships don’t list. Might do a bit better job on the realities of space.

Each of the books center on a battle and while it was well written, there parts that moved slowly. I did appreciate the development of the characters in each book.Unfortunately I noticed a great deal of grammatical errors. Far more than in other books of Mr. Walkers. Perhaps he changed proofreaders.

Nothing but battles and tension until book eight.I would have chosen to have more "exploring", as a relief from video game battles .

The book is very good read a bit hectic at times action after action all in all a good read

I don't like to give 3 star ratings on independent authors and their remarkable efforts. But if you're reading my review, then I'll take the time to justify it. First of all, the author is a good writer. He crafts actions scenes amongst the top writers in the space. So, kudos where kudos are due. Also, regardless of my misgivings, I read the entire series and enjoyed it. From that perspective, well done, and I recommend the series for its entertainment value.I read about the lack of proofreading, the overuse of smirk, etc... but my copy had very few of these errors, leading me to believe the author reads these reviews and updated the text with a revision which is much cleaner. Not an easy task, especially for 10 books, but something I commend the author on.Unfortunately, my discrepancy has to do with the scientific errors. Sure, I can suspend disbelief for the enjoyment of a story, but not when it is contrary to the resolution of the story.For example, there are no shockwaves in space. Shockwaves require a medium for an overpressure wave. There are 'blast zones' where an explosion can affect a ship on the periphery with plasma or radiation/heat, but there are no pressure waves, wakes, or shocks. The author relies too much on this mechanic, which is so wrong, it grates.Also space is 3D -> there is no up/down / but the author treats it in a planar, air-plane combat style approach for fighters and a planar, navy ships oriented approach for capital ships. That gets annoying fast due to all the tactics and solutions that are overruled. Hollywood uses this approach to reduce the disorientation on the viewer, but in a book I expect more.As a software engineer specializing in cryptography, this part was harder to accept: There is no such thing as 'universal' code. There is portable code, chip specific machine language, virtual machines, and high level programming languages. One does not 'decompile' code, they edit it. (You could decompile a binary to code, or compile code to a binary, but this is not how the author applies these concepts). If a secure encrypted message can be hacked for decryption, then it was never secure (as secure implies unhackable). Likewise, if a shield frequency is random, then a program (protocol-7) can not synchronize with it, as by definition, it was random. Random implies non-deterministic while p-7 is a deterministic solution. One could state that p-7 learns the random number generator function, but this was not the case here either. Our history of computers is predicated on some arbitrary decisions made by humans that aren't obvious - for example, when in the early days of computing, IBM decided to declare a byte as 8 bits, instead of a more metric friendly 10; of the use of binary on/off (1/0) in hardware instead of a tri-state (neg/off/pos) approach or others that aliens could possibly of used in their approach.Now, I know, an author shouldn't be held back from writing due to a layperson understanding of the computer science or of space physics. But there is some common ground and research imperatives that have to be met. Otherwise the book becomes a collection of tropes stolen from Hollywood movies.

One of the best series I have rea in a while. Definitely a page turner.

I gave a rating of 4 because of the poor grammar throughout the series It is very frustrating to try to read a book while constantly stumbling over the bad grammar, misspelled words and missing or extra words that made up the books A more competent proof reader is definitely called for The story on the whole was fairly enjoyable, however, I would have liked to have seen a little more attention paid to the characters and a little less attention paid to the fight scenes

The story had you on the edge of the chair and wanting more the people in the story came to life