Choose your own adventure, without the options to choose. It's that predictable. Every twist, every shocker can be predicted chapters ahead. Hell, the "twist" at the end, the mystery of it all, can be guessed about 10 chapters in (there's a lot of them).

Hell, you probably guessed it in book 2. Yup, Earth sent more ships in the 300 years they were "stranded" in orbit. Yup, Earth made Centauri theirs. Yup, they're the enemy. Yup, it works out in the end. Or atleast for a decade. Yup, Elder gets laid. Yup, that guy is a mole. We get it because you mention the guy's eyes every 10 pages. Yup, the author makes a fuzz about it. Yup, 70% of the book is meaningless romantic crap between two teenagers. Authors, don't do this unless it actually has something to bring to the table. We get it, they're a couple. It happened in the last book.

Oh, and you need to stop this him/her/him/her/... chapter bull. It's annoying and adds nothing. Tell a story. ( )

This book and I had issues. It did the same thing as the last two, which is that it started out again with a whole new situation and a brand new form of political distress it had to ride ragged through. I am fan of colonizing alien world Sci-fi's so the tropes that came along with this one actually didn't bother me all that much. I can report that my thoughts about Amy going Frankenstein at the end of Book Two, came back to Amy acting more like herself in Book Three.

I actually stand behind understanding the entire Military vs. Civilian thing they showed us, and these types of things show over and over and over, again.




What makes this a hard decision between two and three stars for me is actually the last ten percent of the book.

The last ten percent of the book is so drastically big I don't understand why it happened in so few pages. Three different groups are brought together. A terrible thing is done to Amy. Several epic losses are taken in the kind of stride you can save for when you're alone. And the world's newest issues with FRX and "The Aliens" is solved in less than half the time we spent figuring out they were there.

I just don't have the words. I wanted so much more out of this ending than I got from it, that all I can do is keep staring at it and wishing it would happen. Wanting to know what happens after this. To those people. To this world. To the next setup. I'm just seriously at such a loss at the end of this one.

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Oh dear lord how the mighty have fallen.

In summation, from Amy's point of view:

I love rain!
Boys are cute!
Daddy mean!
Gee whiz I don't want to commit genocide, but they hurt my mommy!
Whoopsie! I think I just started an interplanetary war!
Yay my hot boyfriend survived! ( )

Need it now....

4.5* this was a very enjoyable read. However there were quite a few points where I got frustrated with characters and their choices. I really enjoyed this series overall and would highly recommend it to others. ( )