Review: Lots of action, enjoyable reading
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 18, 2013
If lots of action and fighting, both in space and on the ground, is not for you then this book is not for you. The vast majority of this book is devoted to combat in space and on the ground. As usual with the books in this series the action is well written and enjoyable reading.With all the fighting going on there is little in terms of character advancement or even story advancement beyond said battle. Whether that is a bad thing or not is up to the readers. Personally I am not too bothered by it. Having said that I am somewhat disappointed that the part of the story arc with Spartan and the ancient biomech that they are now allied with did not really advance that much. Or at least not as much as I hopedAlso, the title of the book is “Battle for Helios” but it is really only depicting the beginning or first half of said battle. Even with all the combat taking place the book really ends in a rather annoying cliffhanger before the real battle have more or less begun. It is a bit like writing a title like “The Battle of Europe” and then stopping after the invasion of Normandy.Regardless of this the book was a worthwhile and enjoyable reading. Like the other books in the series it does not make me go all wow but it is a good book.