A Terran Space Story: Academy Days

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The Academy Days story is now completed. The Lieutenant Saga will begin to be released in June 2022. Click here for the first chapter:Lieutenant Saga

A Terran Space Story chronicles the life of the main character, John Lief. It will share the story of his transition from Naval Intelligence agent to rough around the edges officer in the Confederate Navy.

Academy Days will be made up of four books detailing each year the cadets are in the academy. Between the books will be a timeline outline the history of the universe that the story is set in.

Freshman Year: Prologue through Chapter 35

History between 2029 through 2125: Chapters 36 through 39

Sophomore Year: Chapters 40 through 76

Junior Year: Chapters 77 through 116

Senior Year: Chapters 117 through 152

Information

Status: Completed
Year: 2021
Author: Skalls

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Rating: 4.1/ 5.0
Followers: 199
Views: 381,467

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Tommy14Royal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Good space opera, the hero is a leetle bit OP, it makes the crisis less enthralling when they happen. Oh, and there are frequent life and death crisis.
The authors use of settings seems a bit sterile, could use a few more descriptors.
The secondary characters are pretty well fleshed out.
CimmerianRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Four and a half stars across the board. (Five stars is a nearly impossible dream...)
Style: Patrick Obrian's Master And Commander + Clive Cssler's Dirk Pitt + Lee Child's Jack Reacher + Enders Game. First book has a combination of school days and military intrigue. Protagonist (John) point of view consistently maintained except very very occasionally where the story requires a brief switch to contextualize villians or supporting cast actions, or establish important world/story building.
Story: Future space navy fiction with genetic engineering. A bit heavy with the child prodigy elements. Too much casual teenage binge drinking by "responsible genius officer candidates" for comfort. Some spy craft and naval intelligence elements along with space cadet naval training. Genetic engineering is somewhat new in the story; it's been around for a while, but experimental and considered immoral and/or heavily regulated. Psionics exist. Author has decent grasp of military life and better naval knowledge than I am qualified to critique. The antagonists in the story are "the Alliance" and other foreign governments, but John butts heads more often with "class" and elites entrenched in the nepotistic military he is entering. There are also minor school competitors who don't rise to the level of enemies. Friends become enemies and vice versa in this story. Towards the end of the book ( Book 1, this story) a few persistent nemesis's do develop.
Character: Probably could have been named Gary Stu; so extreme (barely possible in the story-world) that the MC and his friends joke about it. Gets away with ridiculous extreme behavior. Author tries to drag him through some growth during the book, but it is superficial. I wasn't a fan of some choices to nerf/restrict the character. However overall, his choices are logical, dialogue is well written, and I connected well with the character. He works in the universe. Side/Supporting characters are similarly well written with great dialogue
Over-inRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
(Overall Score 4/5) I am in the midst of binge-reading all the "A Terran Space Story" Saga. Overall the book has been a great read. A good mix of Action and Military Combat, with some elements of mystery, romance. The "Space" part of the Space Opera starts later in the book, but it is well written when it finally arrives. Most of my praise would be considered spoilers, but even if it weren't, I would still you read it yourself to see the full extent of goodness this book has to offer.
My critique for the book is that the antagonists fail to accept defeat every time. While some I can understand, when all the enemies just say "Nu-huh" at bullet point every time, It starts to feel a bit repetitive. To counter this though, each of the antagonists presented have a very different conflict path that the protagonist goes through to finish them off.
(Style 4.5/5) Some other reviews I have seen have mentioned how the book doesn't 'show' enough and 'tells' a lot. I can agree that it does 'tell' much more than it does 'show' but I also think that this way of writing leaves much of the description or setting to the imagination. I have a very active imagination so I can imagine grand battles or intricate objects. If you can't do this, you may not enjoy this book. The book also features very large chapters; I enjoy this as it gives me more to read, you may not.
(Story 4/5) The story is a slow-burn with many conflicts set throughout. Long lasting nemesis's are developed more toward the end of the story but there are a few in the beginning. Some stories have non-stop action with extreme mental stress put on the MC. This story does have extreme mental stress put on the MC, but there are breaks in the action, somethings many other stories fail to add in favor of constant action.
(Character 4/5) The Main Character or Protagonist of this story is a child prodigy with a photographic or eidetic memory, working as a Spec Ops operative. He is About college age and that's when the story star
Barney1258Royal Road
★★★★ 4.0
Loved the story, littered with incorrect words that are close to being correct though ...e.g. vein, vane
I'm a tad disappointed to see that the third installment is on hold though, however don't let that put you off reading this part. It's a complete story in itself. Happy reading, enjoy, I did!
EatWithoutTableRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
overall, it's nice, enjoyable read, until it no longer be due to its sheer length in both chapter length & the number of chapters.
-Style: The story is rather packed with 'tell' & lack in 'show' at times. There're a lot of 'A does this, then that. Then these happen, those happen'. I'd estimate ~45% of the story overall is like that. Some chapters go almost entirely 'tell'. And the story can really does some 'show', what does the ship look like?, the character is complaining, but do they grimace, what does their grimace look look like?, so on.
-Character: The MC is OP, you don't see that often these days on the site, for me, i enjoyed it, sometimes you just want to take a break from all those litrpg/progression stories where the MC has to grind it out. But other readers might not like it since most of the adversaries does become really trivial in the story.
Antagonists feels kind of samey, the general pattern for all of them is the same, basically always ignoring the MC warning not once, not twice, but three times after all their previous attempts end in failure. That really affected the story since the story is just that long & have that many antagonistic characters.
-Story: This is a Slice-of-life story through and through, and it's just 1st part of 3 (maybe 3+). And that badly affects it rather than enhance. I enjoyed the 1st 50 or so chapters, the next 30 or so was 'ok, let's see if things ramp up since we're in the midgame'. But from 80-ish onward, i just jumped straight to the last 10 or so chapters expecting the 'final big bad boss' plotline to be resolved, and nothing important carried on & matter during the skipped chapters.
So yeah, the story is just so long. My interest really tanked later on. There're 2 parts that's just about as long also.
-Grammar: There're typos, missing uppercases, grammar errors probably resulting from the author rewriting sentences, etc. Nothing you can't make sense of but basically pebbles littering here & there.
RunnerRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
Slice of life story of a OP Protagonist in a well thought out universe with some good writing.
Good Stuff: The slice of life story about a OP MC and how he deals with it and the effects it can have with the people around him is very well written and good story telling.
The world around the MC is very thought out and is not the simple good vs evil but has a lot of grey in the choices people make.
…so why did I downgrade the story to 3.5 stars?
There are no worthwhile Antagonist in this story. As the story progresses, it builds up the antagonist and the people with them, only for them overplay their hand by doing something dumb and the MC destroys them in just a chapter or two…then we’re on to the next antagonist which does the same thing.
Then there’s the Navy School he’s attending. I want to know why all the practical exams, which the story spends a lot of time on, are exams we expect to see for Marines and not the Navy? Navy personal are not the troops tapped to make a physical, personal assault on defensive positions.
Over all, I think it's the lack of a smart, recurring antagonist in the story that hurts the overall score.
OrphicleRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
It's alright. Typical Chad self insert. Gets boring repetitive and predictable after all the banging, talking back and winning. Not about space at all but a jock with telepathy and hot babes. Would be better if there was any actual description of the surroundings. Cant really relate to the mc or anything he does
ThatOneReaderRoyal Road
★ 0.5
Bad Grammar, but mostly the problem I have is that the
main character keeps literally cheating basic training scenarios by bringing in outside high grade military tech
It makes no sense. He is there to learn what to do in these new situations along with everyone else.
Him Busting out power armor just defeats the whole point of learning what to do in the situations where he wont have it or is commanding troops who don't have it.
The fact the instructors are just like meh thats fine I guess makes no freaking sense. One of them should have immediately set him down and been like, cool story bro, never do that again. Not, oh its fine, do it again in a few chapters it'll be fiiiine, want a promotion.