Gone Nova – Still a good book but…

Gone Nova.
Backyard Starship, #19.
By J.N. Chaney and Terry Maggert.
My rating ⭐ ⭐ :star 1/2 out of 5 stars.

Van is proving that with power comes danger.

From the shores of a secret planet to the halls of power in Washington, Van navigates a complex web of lies, law, and politics, all so that Earth can be saved from the clutches of ruthless criminals.

But these people aren’t from Earth. In fact, they’re not even human, and they see Earth as a ripe fruit, ready to be picked.

That doesn’t work for Van and his crew, so he begins fighting back with the dirtiest tactics of diplomacy. Since the aliens are among us, and they want money and power, Perry and Miryam will unleash their skills to craft a plan that uses Van, Icky, and Funboy to stop the exploitation of Earth cold, for the enemies are led by a new player in the galactic order.

The Tsarina. She’s cruel, she’s heavily armed, and she’s coming for Earth—with a ship that can match anything the Guild has. With enemies at the door, Van finds out that Masters can fail, and secrets are hard to keep, and the Earth is worth saving.

At any cost.

This is a good book. I quite enjoyed it.

Van and his merry band of misfits are still up to their usual shenanigans. As always it is a very fun mix of banter, strange encounters, action, clobbering bad guys, humour and so on and so forth.

There’s not much I can say that I have not said in previous reviews for books in this series.

But…

The authors are dangerously close to overdoing it. The story is starting to become overly complex with too many things going on, plots within plots etc… Politics and such like bullshit are also starting to take too much place now when Van has become a master.

It would not be the first series that have gone down that drain for me and it will probably not be the last either but I really hope the authors calms down a bit and starts to wrap things up and dials back on the shitload of dumb stuff thrown at Van.