Review: Entertaining but not exceptional sci-fi
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 8, 2011
This is the 2nd book of Heppner's Doom Star series. I like the hard sci-fi aspects of his work - the science and the tactics ring true throughout the series, and that is important in good sci-fi. His characterizations are not nearly as solid, however. At times his work reads like a third person video game; I did not have an easy time connecting with his characters as a result. I like his basic premise of a war between the hive-bound, communistic inhabitants of Earth and the genetically engineered super soldiers (Highborn) the Earthers created and then lost control over, and there is good continuity from book to book as the main characters do persist and connect the overall arc of the storyline. Pretty nice work, and a very good value in the $2-3 range.