Review: I quite like this book series
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 9, 2014
With this one, the second book in this book series, I have definitely taken a liking to these books. It is a light read with a decent enough, although somewhat thin, background story, likable characters and a fair amount of action.Although the story revolves around the Earth being invaded, the Terran Confederation being shattered and the rest of the humans being forced to flee it is much more upbeat than many of these apocalyptic stories. The goal is not just to survive and continue running but to actually fight back and retake Earth.This book advances the story another step towards that goal and there are some decent action as well as plot twists happening as the journey goes on. One thing that I do not like so much is that a new “civilian government” is created in this book and the leader appears to be just as clueless, power-hungry and a waste of oxygen as most politicians are. Luckily he only makes a few appearances and does not really have much impact on the story.In this book we also get quite a few glimpses of what happens on the “other side”, the Ch’Tauk’s, as well. Not very surprisingly power struggles and political stupidity is not something the humans have a monopoly on.So far I like where the series is going. It is a good adveenture and there seems to be a nice build up for some alien-spanking and the retaking of Earth. Having said that, from the various hints that are spread around the books, the humans are not exactly the all-innocent party in this conflict so we have to see what kind of conclusion we actually get.