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The Bobiverse books are great IMHO.

I've read them and somewhat disagree. The protaganist(s) in the book almost never choose a sensible course of action for their goals, even given elapsed decades in which to make them. If I can come up with much better plans on the fly while reading, the main character surely could in decades.

The main character is not perfect, he has several major personality flaws that break through and screw up his actions again and again.

I think taking every thing into account, his actions are consistent with his personality.

That said, the first book's exploration of combat in space was, IMHO, some of the best Sci-Fi work in the series. Although I get why the books gave up on even trying to be hard sci-fi at all early on, science was pushed out of the way to make writing the story easier.

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