Review: Great continuation of the story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 9, 2013
Barrett did a great job of story continuation. The story picks up seamlessly from the first book with some added twists including a ground campaign portion.  I really like his plot and character development, he stays focused on the story and keeps you interested through multiple perspectives, ususally very difficult to pull off.He does a good job of developing the "enemy" also, keeping us guessing about the nameless and their motivations while giving away small details to add to our curiosity, this is how it would probably be in a first contact of this type scenario.  I like how they are also developing strategies and technologies to deal with us, just like we are them. In most sci-fi books the aliens are dumb, mindless and never adapt to a changing battlefield and get boring very quickly.Again my only problems are the editing and the timeline. You do have to suspend belief quite a bit to believe that we could reverse engineer technology, in a decade, that is a century or 2 ahead of us and I would like to see more info. on the backgrounds of the races around us. They are under threat also, yet seem not to be very concerned with a race of beings committed to galaxy wide genocide, the other "main" race, who we got ftl tech from, just promises not to interfere?Despite these hiccups the novel kept me very interested and reading enthusiastically and def., looking forward to the next novel.