Review: Enjoyable, but starting to become unbelievable
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 23, 2013
Third book and I'm starting to have real trouble accepting certain things.1) The humans have fought like 40-something wars with the Milgari and have never discovered the Torrians.  Don Grange fights with them for a year or more and discovers not only their existence, but their method of controlling the Milgari and how to prevent it, along with the location of the Torrian homeworld AND the 'single' birthing station for the entire Milgari race?2) The humans manage to defeat the Torrians, return Dakar's homeworld to them, and save the Prassi from extinction, and the Durians turn BOTH of them against the Humans immediately after the climactic battle?  Good luck explaining that insane and illogical turn of events.3) The gigantic fleet of 20,000 Milgari show up and save the day, and are now blindly loyal to the Humans, and Grange, the Admiral, and the Colonel are all just perfectly happy to let the traitorous threat to their security go free?  Nobody in their right mind wouldn't pursue and destroy both the Prossi and Dakar fleets at that stage, who are obviously allied with the Durians against the Humans.  Good luck explaining THAT illogical turn of events the next time these forces clash.This book had way too many unexplained leaps of logic.  Readers want to be able to say "yea I probably would've done the same thing in his shoes" when someone does something in a book.  If we can't understand a character's actions, we tend to reject it out of hand and say something the effect of "okay that would never happen."  Once that starts happening, the world you are trying to create for the reader falls apart, and the reader loses interest.  Keep this in mind when you write.  Actions by a character need to make sense because it's a reasonable thing for the character to do (taking into account that character's experiences, intelligence, and personality).  Actions shouldn't be taken because that's what needs to happen for the plot to go where you want it to or that's where you need it to.In my head, Grange left the prossi and dakar un-punished when he had them at their mercy because you need them alive for the next book.  That's a terrible thing for a reader.  This has to be explained somehow.I will continue to read this series, but please I implore you: Take your time.  Think everything through.  Make your books make sense.  Your success is dependent upon it.