Into the Storm: Destroyermen, Book I

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Would you like us to take another look at this review? No, cancel Yes, report it Thanks! So what is it all about? Well, imagine if you will, something. The US navy has been in a pitched battle with the Japanese navy and had its collective ass spanked. Fleeing the Phillipines a fleet of US destroyers, including USS Wlaker and Mahan apparently this is all historical truth are engaged against the odds to protect the Exeter.

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I have to say Anderson knows his way around a destroyer and knows how to describe an exciting sea battle. Back to the story, when up rises a massive storm that pitches our destroyer freinds into what appears an alternate universe. Geographically things seem the same, pulling up to Bali however, reveals pygmy brontosauruses instead of half naked village girls.

Sharks are like mackerals because giant sea creatures rule the waves. Once the shock of the new world wears off, or at least becomes a secondary concern, the team find themselves in the middle of a battle between the Lemurians cat monkey people from Madagascar and teh crazy ass Lizard people from The scray lizrds are sailing around in 18th century sailing ships and the monkeycats speak Latin. I kid you not. All is explained as the story progresses. Is is a fun light read, i was expecting it to be pretty naff, but I do enjoy that ANderson writes very well for the period.

I am not much of a naval battle story fan, but am enjoying the way this is written. As a switch to an alternate world story, I find it a nice break to kick back, use less concentration as I would have to do normally and enjoy it for what it is. View all 13 comments. Aug 05, Stephen rated it it was ok Shelves: This was a disappointment for me as I was really hoping to like this one. One of the problems with a first book in an ongoing series is that sometimes the author spends too much time on the set up and I think that was the case here.

In addition to a relatively slow plot I thought the characters were fairly uninteresting and I didn't really find myself caring much about what happened to them. Notwithstanding the above, I did like the underlying premise of the book and will probably rea 2.

Notwithstanding the above, I did like the underlying premise of the book and will probably read the second book in the series. With the set up of the first novel completed, the second book has a good chance to be a lot more interesting. Hopefully, it works out that way. I listened to the audio version of the book read by William Dufris and I thought he did a pretty good job with the narration.

Jun 24, Councillor rated it liked it Recommends it for: Readers interested in military science fiction.

The story and the characters: As promising as the story sounded and as well as it has been executed by Taylor Anderson, his characters didn't nearly keep up with this level. From an objective viewpoint, the story was riveting and suspenseful, introducing a lot of interesting twists and several exciting battle confrontations.

Taylor Anderson spent a lot of time on the world building in this alternate Earth, as Captain Reddy the main protagonist and his crew entered 'another world, another war' t The story and the characters: Taylor Anderson spent a lot of time on the world building in this alternate Earth, as Captain Reddy the main protagonist and his crew entered 'another world, another war' through a squall after a naval battle with a Japanese destroyer. Two unknown creatures were established in the course of the story, the first being the Lemurians, nicknamed 'cat-monkeys' by some members of the crew and represented with a complex social background, the second being the Grik, reptil-like predators who remained mainly unknown to the protagonists and the readers due to their illustration as relentlessly and unscrupulously acting villains.

Apart from this entire new world Taylor Anderson made the reader comfortable with, he didn't invest a lot of writing time into characterising his protagonists. Captain Matthew Reddy was simply the captain, confronted with life-changing choices and difficult situations, but still only the captain. A lot of minor characters, e.

Sandra Tucker, Dennis Silva, Mr. Bradford or Jim Ellis, were one-dimensional and fairly uninteresting characters with no background and no character traits they could be reminded for. Two viewpoints were introduced in order to give further insight into the Lemurian society, which were some of the most interesting parts of the story. The cover is gorgeous! A lot of different colours, yet dark and gloomy. If not for the story and the characters, it is already worthwhile to just look at it. This was hard to read, as it took me nearly one month to get through this book. The font size in the edition I own is diminutive, and the scenes were described in such a detailed way it sometimes became hard to continue reading because boredom was easily arised.

As the story continued, it became apparent that Taylor Anderson is a master of writing battle scenes and making the atmosphere dominating in the military feel realistic. Finally, two major plot twists smoothed the way for the second installment in the series, Crusade. One thing I might want to add: Taylor Anderson should write military science fiction, not romance.

Romance was present in this story as well, if only for a minor part, but it remained one of the most predictable things about this book and felt rushed at the end, although the tension between those two characters was clearly visible from the very beginning.

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I chose to rate the book with four stars because of its plot and its intriguing worldbuilding, although it is more like 3. I don't know yet whether or not I'll read "Crusade". This opening for the series Destroyermen was interesting and investing, but I usually want to read a book because I'm curious about the fates of its characters, which I am not the least after this book.

Maybe I will read it one day, but at the moment I will allow the book to rest on my shelves without another companion from Taylor Anderson. View all 3 comments. Our hero is the captain of an obsolete WWI era destroyer among the fleet trying to stem the Japanese advance I said the battle was an "unmitigated" disaster. It did interrupt the Japanese invasion fleet so, it wasn't "unmit Hummm It did interrupt the Japanese invasion fleet so, it wasn't "unmitigated" I suppose.

Anyway the fleet was getting it's collective butt kicked. Two American destroyers one with a Japanese prisoner on board survive a confrontation in the battle that finally forces them to break off. Pursued by an overwhelming force including a huge Japanese battle cruiser they flee into a threatening, dangerous looking squall Then after a weird inexplicable experience they exit into sunny skies. In a different Earth.

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I mean it's the same Earth geography wise The stars are right, the land masses are right but that's about all. By the time I finished the book I'd decided that this is a 5 star read and that I really want to go right to the next in the season. I'm planning to read something else first just because I've got it on my list and "such". You're going to an interesting take on life forms and how "we" might relate to them and them to us.

You also get views of less technologically advanced societies confronting advanced technologies. These are fairly well known science fiction themes but they get handled well here without burying the story. There's another series of navel novels where a modern day ship gets "jerked" back in time to WWII.

That series while being an interesting idea bogged itself down in political and sociological themes. The racial relations and sexual relations stories swamped and in my opinion overwhelmed the actual plot of the books unless of course you see that "as the actual plot" then it did what it was meant to.

This novel however tells an actual story and draws you in with a plot and interesting characters. So, great action adventure in a science fiction setting. A World War II destroyer is sent back in time and joins lemur-people in a war against dinosaur-people. If that concept sounds awesome to you, then you should read this book.

If that concept sounds silly to you, then I've just told you everything you need to know. Now, to be more precise, it's not entirely clear whether the USS Walker goes back in time or sidewise, but either way, the ship, on the run from a vastly superior Japanese fleet, winds up in an alternate timeline in which humans never evo A World War II destroyer is sent back in time and joins lemur-people in a war against dinosaur-people.

Now, to be more precise, it's not entirely clear whether the USS Walker goes back in time or sidewise, but either way, the ship, on the run from a vastly superior Japanese fleet, winds up in an alternate timeline in which humans never evolved. Instead, they find themselves in a South Pacific inhabited by "Lemurians," who sail the seas in gigantic aircraft carrier-sized "home ships," and are currently facing an invasion by the savage, saurian "Grik" Obviously, the Grik at some point encountered other humans who wound up in this timeline.

The USS Walker's crew includes a large cast of characters notable mostly for their individual personality quirks, like any war movie, and the Lemurians also get some named characters who will obviously be important in future volumes. The Grik, at least in this book, are just a bloodthirsty horde of nameless monsters, and all we learn about their culture is that they're insanely violent and driven to conquer. They are so mindlessly violent, in fact, that it seems incredible they could even take the time to learn how to operate sailing ships.

Hopefully they'll get fleshed out a bit more in future books. Into the Storm is the first volume in what appears to be a long series. There is nothing deep about it, but the writing, while nothing remarkable, was straightforward serviceable storytelling with brave men and Lemurians fighting a vile foe, and a lot of naval tactics, resource management, and inter-species diplomacy.

I found it great fun, enough that I'll continue with the series unless and until it loses steam. Feb 20, C. I'll keep reading and see what I think. Oct 13, Joe Santoro rated it it was amazing Shelves: I've had this on my radar for a while, and finally bought the 1st 5 books of the series to read on my annual fall travelling for work. This one didn't dissapoint! If you're a fan of , this one is just as good. Commander Matthew Reddy and his ship.

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They find a semi-prehistoric world, where, instead of humans, two different species rose to sentience From being an outdated, forgotten hulk in the Pacific Theatre, the Walker is now the fastest, most powerful ship in the world, if they can find a way to get fuel, ammo, and supplies While there are a few overly convienent co-incidences in that make things a little easier like the fact that one of the passengers just happens to have oil surveys of the region, and the oil is all in the same place, or that both races speak a bit of an Earth language, due to a previous visit by an East India Company ship it's a great story, with engaging characters, and fun alternate history.

Most definitely a good read! Feb 16, Jacqie rated it really liked it. This is a solid first book. I was fascinated to see that the author is a forensic ballistic archeologist- I never knew such a thing existed, and how cool is that!? The book is a fairly straightforward world-walking premise, with a battered WWII destroyer falling into a world with no humans, but with intelligent seafaring monkey-cats Lemurians and a nasty intelligent reptilian enemy.

We only get to know things from the crew's perspective, so the lizard baddies are still alien to us at the end of This is a solid first book. We only get to know things from the crew's perspective, so the lizard baddies are still alien to us at the end of the first book. I liked the fact that the author thought about what the crew could realistically know, and talked about the limits of decision making without good intelligence.

The characters break no new ground, and no one we'd really miss dies. I'm interested to see what the author makes of them in the next book, because I did become fond of them and their devotion to duty and each other. I gave the book 4 stars instead of five because, while it was solidly entertaining, it didn't move me deeply. More of a popcorn matinee movie that will divert you thoroughly than an Oscar winner.

But hey, I love popcorn! Dec 12, Bob Milne rated it liked it. I've been on vacation all week, doing my best not to think about work. Since I knew we'd be spending a few days camping, I decided to push the review pile to the side and do a little pleasure reading. I didn't have any specific titles in mind, but I knew precisely what kind of books I wanted to enjoy.

Last on my reading list for the campsite was something the crosses genres, with a significant clash of culture and technology. I considered several possibilities, with Island in the Sea of Time by S I've been on vacation all week, doing my best not to think about work.

I considered several possibilities, with Island in the Sea of Time by S. Stirling nearly winning the day, but eventually settled on Into the Storm, the first book of the Destroyermen series from Taylor Anderson. This is a series I've been curious about for some time, so I decided to finally give it a shot.

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A contemporary battleship being sent back to prehistoric times would have been interesting enough, but making the ship a WWI destroyer that is already failing when pressed into WWII service is a nice touch, and making that prehistoric world an alternate one, populated by a cat-like race at war with a reptilian one, is fantastic.

As sea-fairing military thrillers go, this a solid read. I tend to gravitate more towards submarines than destroyers when looking for a naval adventure, but the historical aspect was more than enough to pique my interest. The characters were all nicely developed, with a few standouts that I hope get more page time as the series continues. In terms of world-building, this is more establishing a concept than truly executing on it, but Anderson lays out enough detail to make the story work, and to make you want to keep reading. The clear delineation between the 'good' race and the 'bad' one is a bit simplistic, so I hope he blurs that line a bit in subsequent volumes.

There's a lot of potential here, and while I'm not sure it can sustain eight books which is where the series stands today , I'm more than willing to go along for the ride and see how long the fun lasts. It's a book full of ideas that have been done before, but never quite in this manner. As for the writing, it's a bit cold and simplistic to start, but I could feel Anderson becoming more and more comfortable as the book progressed, with bodes well for future volumes. Originally reviewed at Beauty in Ruins Dec 13, Kyle rated it liked it Shelves: With a plot premise of an outdated warship in service during WW2 which gets pulled into an alternate world, this book had the potential to be pretty cheesy.

Fortunately, this potential was unmet. In fact, there was a surprising amount of thought put into the book regarding the story. The author could have just created a world were weird stuff happens, actionish things take place, and the book has the purpose of just being entertaining; plenty of authors end there and send their books to print, b With a plot premise of an outdated warship in service during WW2 which gets pulled into an alternate world, this book had the potential to be pretty cheesy.

The author could have just created a world were weird stuff happens, actionish things take place, and the book has the purpose of just being entertaining; plenty of authors end there and send their books to print, but to T. Anderson's benefit he didn't just leave it at that. He put a bit more thought into the book, and hence he produced a product that's a little more thoughtful than a typical diversionary flick. Sure, the ultimate point of the book is to escape into an alternate reality where humans are the minority and the world is simply weird.

But, instead of just focusing upon the "what" question Taylor Anderson obviously enjoys exploring the "how" or "why" questions. Through all the WW2 naval speak, and macho-ness with which all military books ultimately color themselves, Anderson explores speculations on topics such as Geology, Evolution, and Culture.

There's a genuine attempt at authenticity in Anderson's work that makes up for the foundational simplicity of the plot and prose construction.

Into the Storm may ultimately be a book for fun diversion and is not presented as anything more , but the book also reveals an active mind at work during its creation; this is the only true trait I demand from authors as a reader. Books can always be improved upon, stories and characters always fleshed out more, but the obvious engagement of the author in their own work can often be the deciding factor of a book's intrinsic worth.

Anderson is engaged in his work, and it's obviousness in this case makes the book greater than the sum of its parts. I'm also increasing the rating for musings upon cat-monkey-human sex don't worry, it's tasteful. Jan 14, Donna rated it really liked it Shelves: What a surprise this book was When I looked this book up on GR before deciding to read it, I looked no further than the list of main page genres. I was sold right there. As this book started rolling along, and the time travel part happened I was saying, "Oh no.

It may have 3. It may have skirted those issues, but never jumped in.

I knew I would have walked away if it started falling in that direction, but it didn't. I actually liked this. I also kept expecting it to stall in this alternate world, because what can really happen way way way back then. But the author kept things rolling with some creative twists. The ending felt a little abrupt, but overall, I liked this. And just because it could have gone horribly wrong, and didn't, I will up the 3. This was an intriguing surprise. Dec 27, Andrew Obrigewitsch rated it it was ok Shelves: This book honestly felt like reading a novelized Real Time Strategy game.

It was pretty boring for the first half and then when they leveled up the natives ships with cannons it had some sparks of interestingness, but still has cardboard characters and things that just were not well thought out at all. It was not horrible, it was just OK. Jun 02, Hudson rated it really liked it. Great concept but I thought it dragged on a bit. Aug 25, Gordon rated it it was amazing Shelves: I love historical fiction, especially if it is well thought out and we researched.

Taylor Anderson's Destroyermen series is no exception; while he adds a Sci Fi twist to it, everything about this series is historically accurate and correct, sort of. As with any author a certain level of creative licence is expected and in this case it makes the whole story possible. Into The Storm is the first book in what was originally a trilogy, it establishes Captain Mathew Reddy; Commanding Officer of the WW I love historical fiction, especially if it is well thought out and we researched.

Taylor Anderson blends seemingly complex scientific theories and paleontology with basic engineering problems and supply issues in a world that's not quite our own; as well as the war The characters are very believable and well thought out, even the world in which they inhabit, so similar yet very different is remarkably vivid and real. Even USS Walker becomes a character in itself to the point that you feel pain and sorrow for her when bad things happen. The same cannot necessarily be said for USS Mahan; her sister ship that accompanies her to this strange new land.

Although her experience is by no means easier than Walker's, her story is somewhat secondary to the plot and in the end ultimately, although she becomes more central later on, has less of an impact on everything; but that comes later in the series. Without going into too much detail and giving away a key plot point that's as far as I'll go. Since I started reading this series which is now 7 books long, I've completed 5 and I'm half way done with the 6 th.

I cannot recommend this series more highly than if I shoved it in your face and told you to read it. I made it about half way through before giving up on this one. Things just got weird for me. Strange animals showed up, there might or might not have been time travel, the ship's crew wasn't sure, so I wasn't either. In the end this one just wasn't for me.

May 21, Doug Dandridge rated it it was amazing. I discovered Taylor Anderson last year while looking for new reads, and I am glad I did. Destroyermen is the story of a pair of World War II destroyers at the beginning of World War 2 that are sucked into a dimensional rift to a world where dinosaurs didn't die out.

Instead they evolved into an intelligence that threatens to destroy the other intelligent race of the planet, the Lemur like Lemurians. Enter the men from our Earth and their obsolete warships, which are ages ahead of anything the tw I discovered Taylor Anderson last year while looking for new reads, and I am glad I did. Enter the men from our Earth and their obsolete warships, which are ages ahead of anything the two extant cultures on the planet possess. Commander Matthew Reddy and the crew of the Walker are everyman thrown into an incomprehensible situation and doing the best they can.

Reddy, who is over his head as a ship commander, is now tasked with raising a culture and industrial base to 20th Century standards, planning a war, or watching the men he loves go down before the tide of Grik that threatens to consume the world. But the Grik have a secret weapon as well, the Japanese battle cruiser that has also come to this world. A very well written book by a man that understands history and naval warfare, and a great introduction to an interesting series.

Dec 11, Trike rated it really liked it Shelves: During a battle in WW2, a pair of WW1-era destroyers enter a mysterious storm and are transported to an alternate Earth where dinosaurs never went extinct and humans never evolved. They run afoul of a ravenous civilization of intelligent dinosaurs, perhaps descended from raptors, and ally themselves with a declining race evolved from lemurs, finding themselves in war where their obsolete ships are the most advanced technological devices on the planet.

The destroyers make a difference for a chang During a battle in WW2, a pair of WW1-era destroyers enter a mysterious storm and are transported to an alternate Earth where dinosaurs never went extinct and humans never evolved. The destroyers make a difference for a change This is just pure widescreen fun.

Anderson has some quirks as a writer, such as an over-reliance on ellipses, and it's not great literature, but I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Enough to plunge ahead to the next one immediately. Nov 20, Kam rated it liked it Shelves: Alternate universes are always a fascinating prospect. When one looks across the length and breadth of history, the inquiring mind wonders what could have been done differently. A lot of novels explore these possibilities, often altering an event, major or minor, from the past, and then expanding upon the consequences of that one event.

Based on this one assumption, Robinson weaves a tale exploring almost all so it seems of the possibilities arising from the adjustment of that one simple fact, all the way to the twenty-first century. Some authors, of course, do not reach so far - or they do reach that far, or farther, but choose to narrow the scope of their exploration to something more practical and which does not require the use of reincarnation as a "time machine," as Robinson does in The Years of Rice and Salt.

The change appears quite simple, really, but it occurs far back enough in the past that its impact is, frankly speaking, rather incredible. There is indeed a species of giant lemur that once existed on Madagascar, but they had already gone totally extinct by the time humanity evolved enough to spread out of Africa.

What if it was the giant lemurs of Madagascar that had "descended from the trees," so to speak, and become the dominant species on Earth? An interesting possibility of course, and filled with potential. These, unlike the giant lemurs, are reptilian - though how that happened I'm not quite so sure. The only way I can imagine this is possible is if this particular race was descended from raptor-type dinosaurs, which were the only conceivable type of reptile that could have produced something intelligent enough to set up a culture.

Even then, they do not seem to act very different from their less sentient counterparts, so I do not know if they really do have a "culture" as the word is commonly understood. It may take an anthropologist, or someone more expert with such things than myself, to know what is really going on here. Interesting as that might have been, Into the Storm begins elsewhere: The Japanese have just swept into the Pacific, and have just chased the Americans out of the Philippines. The destroyer USS Walker , fellow destroyer USS Mahan , and a handful of other, older, outdated ships are among the few that managed to survive the terrible bombings the Japanese did on Philippine ports.

In the middle of a heated battle, during which both Walker and Mahan are almost totally destroyed, they slip into a squall - and into someplace else entirely. Or so they think. For as it turns out, they have not slipped into another place, but into another reality entirely. The squall, as it turns out, is a link between their particular version of reality, and by sailing through it, both Mahan and Walker have found themselves in a parallel universe - and, before very long, caught in another war. In the novel, it's quite obvious that the main characters are the "destroyermen," or the men and women aboard the Walker and the Mahan , though mostly those aboard the Walker.

Other characters figure in later, but for the most part it is the people aboard the Walker that dominate the story. In particular, the captain, Matthew Reddy, stands out. Although he rather disliked his ship and its crew when he was first assigned to it, he grew to care - and respect - both. He constantly agonizes over his decisions throughout the story, having been traumatized by bad decisions made both as soon as the ships enter the parallel universe, and by those made by his superiors during what he has experienced of World War II.

Ranged alongside him are the crew members, and while a few of them stand out, there are also a significant number of them that it is difficult to keep their names straight. Of course, I also think that most of them are just not memorable enough to stick around in my memory long enough.

Aside from the chief nurse, later chief medical officer, Lieutenant Sandra Tucker who is a very, very tough woman, which is a character type I can always appreciate and remember , Dennis Silva, the gunner's mate I think , and Kaufman, the view spoiler [ eventually crazy hide spoiler ] Air Force captain, I can barely keep all the others straight in my head. I suppose this might be a flaw in their characterization, as I can manage with a large cast of characters just fine, but only if they are of note enough to stick in my memory.

There is also a certain unevenness in Anderson's choice of point-of-view character the novel uses the third-person limited point-of-view that makes it even more difficult for the reader to truly get to know the characters. If Anderson had just stuck to a handful of select, important characters, it would have been far easier to settle down and like the characters through whose eyes the reader engages with the world. I also find myself rather leery of the way certain characters are portrayed. While most of the human characters are American not all of them are Caucasian, but as I mentioned earlier, it's rather difficult to tell them apart since they have not exactly been fully fleshed out , there are two characters who are not: Shinya plays a larger role than Marcos, but what little I have seen of Marcos rather discomfits me.

While I suppose extreme emotion in the presence of a person who helped conquer your country might be expected, it is still very early days as of yet into the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines, with many of the horrors including the Bataan Death March to come somewhat later. I find Marcos's reaction entirely over-dramatic - and I do not like what this bodes for further characterization of Juan Marcos. Shinya's characterization bothers me somewhat, as well. He is described as a reluctant figher against the Americans, having been educated in the United States and rather liking Americans as a whole, and joining the Japanese Navy mostly out of duty to his family and country.

There are times when I rather wish he presented a little more loyalty to his country, that he was portrayed as, well, being more Japanese, if Anderson really wants him to fill in the role of inscrutable Oriental, but it almost feels like Anderson has some difficulty portraying human characters that are not American, and so goes the middle route in Shinya's case - which, unfortunately, only makes his overall character, possibly one of the most interesting so far, feel a bit confusing.

Or, perhaps, Anderson has spent greater care with the characterization of the non-human characters, expecting the reader to relate more to the humans, thus not really fleshing them out, but putting more effort into the non-human characters so that the reader will be able to relate to them despite their non-human nature. Also, I have to wonder what Anderson knows of lemur behavior, since the Lemurians are supposed to have descended from them, and there is a lot of behavior that strikes me as very appropriate for lemurs, but there is also a lot there that does not seem very lemur-like.

Then again, a lot of human behaviors are not very chimp-like or ape-like, so I suppose this divergence is valid. One other thing that bothers me is this whole "We are Americans, and therefore must do something good for this world" undercurrent that I get right from the very beginning.

There is nothing wrong with nationalism, but that same line, used by the old colonial powers, has resulted in much destruction and heartache before. To be fair, Matthew Reddy agonizes over this for a while during the first one-half of the book, but that quickly disappears under something else. I expect this sentiment to surface again sometime later in the series, with greater repercussions than were presented in this novel, but I shall have to wait and see until I read the other books.

Into the Storm is, overall, an entertaining read. It is possible to find shades of Star Trek here, though Reddy is really more a Picard than a Kirk, and the crew of the Walker is much rougher than the crew of any Enterprise I have encountered so far. But there is a sense of exploration here, of going where no man or woman has gone before, and if only for that, I found this to be a relatively okay read.

There is much that could be improved, I think, and many questions that need answering, but as this is the first book in a series I will have to reserve judgment for the other books down the line. But Into the Storm has, at least, piqued my interest, and I plan to read the other books in the series to see if they stand up as well as this one - or, hopefully, prove to be better.

I always need more giant sea monsters! This was a fun book, but a bit long and way sillier than I expected. Mini dinosaurs and giant sea critters should have been the main point though. Give me the kraken! Jan 27, Dimitrios rated it really liked it Shelves: I made a big mistake. When i found out about the series and read what it was all about, i was like "Whaaaaaat? A WWI destroyer that entered an peculiar event and travelled to a parallel universe Earth which underwent different evolutionary stages? And cat peo At a glance: Bias is the reviewer's bane.

In my case, it would prevent me of enjoying this naval adventure and from meeting this amazing cast of chareacters. Full spead ahead with the review then! Walker a WWI destroyer, while engaged in a losing naval battle with the overwhelming WWII Japanese fleet, in order to hide from the enemy, is entering a squall. This bad weather however is a cosmic event that transports Walker to an alternate Earth, that took a different evolutionary step, filled with sea monsters, cat people, lizard people and The novel describes the crew's toil to make sense of their new situation, their tries to adapt, their failures and in general their plight.

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They meet new people, they fight new people, some live, some die. For the rest, read the book please. You will be so rewarded, mainly by the fantastic cast. Silva a destroyerman in all respects , the novel is filled with amazing characters, all flawed, all troubled, all loyal and all amazing. Commanding a WWI ship during WWII is a challenge in itself but Matt Reddy is shown as a confident, able leader who cares deeply for his men and who feels more than responsible for their wellbeing.

However when he is alone, his is always introspective, a bit unsure and a more human Matthew Reddy emerges.

The USS Walker, a very old warship by any standard comes out as a major character in the novel as well. This is ingenious from the author's part since it makes the reader to actually care when the ship's paint is scratched. The reader visits the ship's compartments constantly. From the galley to the engine room and from he bridge to the head! I will mention here that the people our heroes will meet are very original, very fleshed out, with their history, social structure, interactions, mythology, wants, needs etc.

I can say nothing more sincei approach spoiler territory. I do not need to say something more.

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