Review: A better book than the previous one
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 11, 2012
I will be the first to admit it.  I didn't like "on silver wings" the book that came before this one.  I found the characters so so, and the alien menace didn't have any personality or reason.  They were just bad guys who showed up and blew stuff up.  In short they weren't believable.I am glad to say this book corrects almost all my critiques.  The aliens are given a voice, through one of their own special forces, and we finally get an idea of what they are like.  This helps the book in a huge way.  Also the character development is much better this time around, I actually give a care what happens to the people involved.The space battles still need a little work, but are better than 90% of the sci-fi authors out their.  Even Currie may not be any David Weber but he weaves a believable battle sequence.  I'm still not convinced the the humans are even able to fight the aliens when they can only go at 15g's in spurts and the aliens are able to run at 150g's constantly.  It seems like the aliens would rush in fire at their max range, and then run back out, rinse and repeat, until all the human ships are dead.  But that is just being pickey.In the end the story was fun, and I will be buying the sequel once it comes out.