Getting Fired Up (Arturo Sandus Book 3)

This is the third book in the series and call it does a great job progress in the story forward there are issues that need to be addressed. First let me get it out of the way it’s a good story the MC is good decide characters are good and the premise overall around the story is a good premise. solid foundation you can easily expand on. no the first two books in the series I give 1.5 stars each. They each had their own problems but following them was easier than this book. here is where the problem yet this book really expands the territory covered and when you start expanding territory covered and mentioning so many cities so many towns so many places One thing you need is a map. I’ve read other books like this before and when they really expand got into so many territories with so many different names the author introduced a map. Anytime a new chapter came up and they really blew it out with all new territories that had to be talked about there was a map at the beginning of the chapter. this series actually needs a map at the beginning of the book so I can just get a better lay of the land I mean we have so many towns so many railroads connecting from place to place you need to be able to see it the author understands where everything is in position wise can dictate what’s going to come and why things transpired but as a leader it’s not always that easy for us to know this is where this town is this is where this railroad line goes so we need a map. No somethings in this book was fairly obvious you could tell where a plot lines were going to go that’s not bad necessarily the problem is how you get there. I won’t spoil it in this paragraph I will mention it in the next paragraph but if you’re going to have a major plot point you have to do it the right way this wasn’t done the right way it was nearly perfect but it messed up at one particular point. I know why the author did what they did but they should’ve gone about it a different way. One final note do you have to be careful what you dictate to the reader look at the title page of the book you’ll see a canon so most of us are thinking there’s going to be a Canon in this book and there was but that didn’t happen until much later into the book I think it would’ve been more appropriate to dictate to us something different. Yes firearms are introduced in this book but it took so long to get them introduced perhaps rightfully so you should not have probably shown us that on the main page. That’s a small criticism some may not agree with it but to me I think a different picture should’ve been presented to the reader.SPOILER SPOILER SPOILERNow here’s the spoiler the main character‘s best friend dies in this book. I understand why that person was killed off it was actually to make room for his future wife. It allows her to take on a particular roller directly at his side. The thing is you’ve killed off a character that really could’ve been use more purposefully in the book. Well I felt no connection necessarily to this character I also felt that he shouldn’t have been killed off he should’ve been moved to a different position. In fact if you were going to kill someone else you should’ve killed the father in law of the deceased character it would’ve had the same effect of moving the original character who died to a new position taking over the father-in-law‘s intelligence gathering position but you would’ve kept a character that was vital to the MC. I realize you had to make sure the wife was going to be directly beside her husband but you didn’t have to kill the person who was normally by his side to get her there. He just needed to move him into a new position. In fact having him in this new position could’ve shown these talents The author consistently highlighted he possessed.One of the spoiler it really doesn’t make sense for this ship to be visible at the bottom of a lake and no one has gone to look at it that just seems foolish by now. I think the author is just stretching it but not getting it over with and having the thing called out of the water and dragged away. You telling me none of his men have said I wonder why he keeps going out there I’m going to go look when he’s not here. It just makes no sense. You mean to tell me no citizen has walked by this lake saw this huge object down there and wondered what is it and look like. Again it just doesn’t make a lot of sense.Well I believe all that is true it’s still a good book. It just really does need a map my goodness.

I have devoured the two previous books in the series and did the same with "Getting Fired UP." So, I like the books and enjoy reading them. The main character, Arturo Sandus, has made himself the leader of what has survived of Roman Britain. In "Getting Fired Up" the steam-driven economy has taken off, as has Arturo's love life. One of the fun things about the books is finding references to the Authorian legends simply sprinkled in the text. We might, as an example, find an otherwise unremarkable army officer with a name than if we say it slowly sounds very much like the name of one of the knights of the round table. Peter Rhodan does not make a big deal about these Easter Eggs, but he puts them there for us to find, or to not find. He writes from a strong position on the various barbarian tribes, nations, or confederations that slosh around the edges of the Roman Empire in the early fifth century. He keeps the Saxons, Franks, and Frisians straight historically and in our minds. That isn't easy, either. There are lots of barbarian outfits to keep straight. He does an admirable job of that. His battle scenes are quite well done, lucid, and believable. His characters are lightly sketched except for Arturo and his romantic interest. That isn't all that important in a book like this, an action fantasy. We have enough of a back story on a particular army officer, official or barbarian chieftain to understand their motivation and that is enough. Where he falls down is in his accelerated rush into the age of iron and steam. He has hand-powered mines and smelters pushing out thousands of tons of iron and steel more or less by the wave of his wand. I think the scale of his industrial plants is not realistic. We need consistent believability. Not that I am put off by this to not read or enjoy the books. Not at all. I look eagerly forward to the next edition. I understand that Rhodan has at least three more volumes in mind. Good.

I love the idea of introducing advancements in technology to an ancient culture! This book was great, with fewer grammatical errors than the first two books. Could use a few more commas - a lot more. Other than that, this is a really great story!

I have tried to take these stories at face value but with this novel it is becoming ever harder to "willingly suspend my disbelief". Simply put the pace of growth and change is becoming increasingly hard to just gloss over as background to the story. If everything has advanced this far this fast then salvaging his wrecked shuttle should be his top priority as only the gold and scrap value of the battle armor could explain how so much money is available for investment. Yet salvaging the shuttle completely is put off into the indistinct future.

I enjoyed this tale very much. I wonder if this type of story has any roots in" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court".

They are fun books, at that time in history some thing like this could happen. After that the religious wars would have made such change improbable. Some of the other things like the lens making description with a mold is bogus, the author should try building his own telescope. Getting an accurate, distortion free surface is lot of work, i.e. lap, measure, lap, measure and on and on. Pick up a telescope made with plastic lens, the distortion is horrid, look through a high end binocular and it is much sharper and very expensive. Today a single point diamond cnc lathe produces super optics but they still need to be lapped as a finishing step.

There are some misspellings, incomplete or incorrect spellings and usage. More proof reading would be good but did not significantly affect the enjoyment. One note, the effects of blackpowder usage in rifled weapons was not addressed. After only a few shots, blackpowder rifles must be cleaned or the powder fouling residue will effectively render them unusable after a few firings . The fouling will increase to the point that the bullet cannot be rammed down and seated in the barrel.

These books are fairly interesting. Waiting to see what happens next. The draining of the Imperial swamp and the bad guys getting theirs keeps the storyline rolling along. Hope it doesn't end where I expect it to.

Better proofreading.

It is nice to read a book that has an optimistic story.

Not a bad alt history

An engaging tale that moves along quickly with developments both personal and technical happening slightly quicker than in earlier books.Looking forward to more books from this pleasing series