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A good start

Good old fashioned space war between aliens and humans. I liked it a lot.

A few minor proofing errors (‘raise’ instead of ‘raze’). Nothing awful. Some of the characters are thin, but that might be solved in later volumes.

I will be buying the next book. Really the best recommendation I can give.

A good start

Good old fashioned space war between aliens and humans. I liked it a lot.

A few minor proofing errors (‘raise’ instead of ‘raze’). Nothing awful. Some of the characters are thin, but that might be solved in later volumes.

I will be buying the next book. Really the best recommendation I can give.

This book picks up the pace from the first book. You get to see more of the political side of things and how the military responds to that. There are interactions with aliens and battles with the Others. I think everything seems to be going too well for the humans and kept waiting for a big defeat or something bad to happen to them, but that never happened. The action scenes are good and the chracter development is better then the first book. I am looking forward to the third book.

The overall story told by the book was great, the element missing for me is the character development. It almost seems like each chapter of the book revolves around a different character, but after that chapter in some cases we never see that character again. Because of that there is no character development through the book. The book is very good at telling the military aspects of the story and you do not need to be a military person to enjoy the story. The ideas raised in the book about how we would handle the discoveries made and space travel seem realistic. My reason for a 4 star review instead of a 5 star on goes down to the character development. I just do not have a vested interest in any character. I have read the second book in the series and am currently reading the third and the character development gets better but is still lacking.

Ok Corcoran, you have me hooked. I can't wait to get my hands on book 3. This was a page turner, and I just couldn't wait to find out what happened next. The bad guys were CONSPICUOUSLY absent through much of the book, and it was great to see how they came onto the scene for the exciting end.

Overall a pretty good book, a little predictable and it was amazing how some beings can be brought 300 years forward in advancing technology without any social and/or religious strife. I wish we lived in a world like that!

This is a very well thought out rendition of our first contact with other races from other stars, starting out with us achieving interstellar travel. It's on all of our minds, and Corcoran fleshes it out very well. And of course, along with meeting others, we also unfortunately run into "bad guys", who happen to be called "the others"! Ha! I didn't care to read every detail of every space battle, which may turn other peoples' cranks, but the big picture was top notch. I can't wait to move on to the next book in the series. Great job, PP!