Review: Not so great
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 2, 2014
This tale of humans, Keepers, and Zyll is a better take on the human-alien relationship than I had anticipated. And by the end of the tale the bad guys were really narrowed down to an ugly few, but....The manner of choosing humans to participate was clear as mud - in fact the whole argument for human participation was clear as mud. Yes, the humans are chosen by bloodline - but why??? And each human offers protection to his/her planet - but how and why??? And how the heck do the humans help the others when they don't have any special skills??? The humans ask the same question but they don't get an answer either.These issues are the backbone of the story line, so the reader has to accept an awful lot of illogical stuff to even get into the book. Once in (it took me till about one-third in to convince myself to keep going) the fast-moving plot takes you along, until you realize that the good guys who want to fight the bad guys have no idea where they are and they've called together a whole star fleet hoping that someone will tell them. Someone does, so that problem is solved but in a cheap way.Almost everything significant does get resolved though, so you only need go on to the next book if you like the characters. But the author needs to pull the plot together and come up with something that sticks, because this one relies on leaps of faith bigger than the distances the star ships travel!