Review: Stephen Sweeney's Galactic War continues in Battle for the Solar System -Book II - The Third Side
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 13, 2012
While Stephen Sweeney revealed the answers to a lot of the mysteries he set up in The Honour of the Knights the First Edition, he cleverly set us up with new mysteries, which I hope he will answer  in Book III - though no such book has been mentioned at the end of The Third Side. This book is every bit as addictive as the first.  It was great being reunited with Simon Dodds, Estelle, Enrique, Kelly, and Chaz. There were a host of new characters too. The Pandorans finally expand their conquest beyond the Empire into the Independent States with a promise to sweep through them and finally eliminate the Confederation, with Sol and Earth. Interestingly, a politician really messed things up. At the end, their super weapon gone, Commodore Parks was feeling despair. Commodore Mandeep assured him that "there's always another way, we just haven't found it yet." The question hanging over them is will that way be discovered in time. The reason I marked The Honour of the Knights a 4 instead of a 5 is the same reason I am downgrading this excellent Sci-Fi. It has one really irritating error. Sweeney uses the word "sat" where seated would be the right word. The other typos were minor and relatively few.