Review: Better than some are suggesting
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 15, 2012
This series reminds me of some of Heinlein's youth SciFi such as "Starship Troopers." It's a good yarn, starting with the discovery of an alien artifact and alien remains in Antartica and following through with the technological  and social change that result from this.  This includes the selection and induction of a mentally and physically elite group of young adults into a training squad for .... what? Saving Earth, obviously, but at this stage, despite having read five books, I haven't got far enough into the series to have glimpsed a live alien which is what some of the reviewers are complaining about, I think.  Plenty of action and strategy in their training carries the reader onwards, though, making each book an adventure. Quite well written.