Review: Avoid wasting your money and reading this book.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 18, 2014
If you are a follower of the Empire Corps and feel you need to read this book because you are curious about how the Commonwealth is going to bounce back from the disaster of stupidity it suffered at Laksmibai, you will be sadly disappointed.This entire book is another Commonwealth disaster.  Instead of Laksmibai, it's another world named Thule.  The Commonwealth falls straight into traps set by Admiral Singh and her pawns over and over again, throughout the book, being outsmarted at every turn.  There is not a single moment of "good job Commonwealth."  It's pure crap after crap.  The final "battle" is summed up as follows:  Cut to Admiral Singh point of view: 5 pages of inner thoughts about how great everything is going.  Cut to Jasmine point of view: 5 pages of inner thoughts about how terrible its going.  Cut to Joe Buckley point of view:  5 pages of everything going to crap.  Cut back to Singh point of view: 5 pages of everything's going my way.  Cut to Mandy point of view:  5 pages of inner thoughts about being able to do nothing and feeling helpless.  Cut to leader of Thule government point of view:  "oops, I'm dead." Back to Admiral Singh: "Empress Singh.  I like the sound of that."And the whole time every Commonwealth leader, Jasmine, Mandy, Stalker, etc., all they can do is worry if they'll still have a job when the dust settles.The worst part of this book, our favorite character, Colonel Stalker, is barely mentioned at all.  He's pretty much put on trial for the last books' idiocy, then notified at the end of this books disaster.So if you want to read an entire book with your favorite characters getting their asses kicked, fretting about their job security, and getting played by the evil Wolfbane empire, this book is for you.  If you are like me and like to see something go right for your favorite characters, avoid this waste of paper.  You can read the next book without reading this one.  All you need to know:  Thule fell, Singh is leading the Wolfbane attack on the Commonwealth, Jasmine is captured, and the rebels on Thule will be fighting Wolfbane now instead of the Commonwealth.That's it.  You can avoid this entire book and save 5 bucks.