Review: Bigger and badder
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 4, 2010
This book is all about bigger and badder. We get more technology - the peacekeepers make a battleship, drones and fighters, and the bad guys have tanks and helicopters. We get slavers and a man who would be king. We get an ingenious solution to the question of how shoot down a helicopter above you when everything you have points downwards. And there is a great hand-to-hand battle for the culmination.The only negatives I had were that the peacekeepers start to act even more like vigilantes in this novel, and it brings up the question of when is it appropriate to be judge, jury and executioner?  The novel does address this, but it could have gone into more depth on the subject. Also, the battles seem a bit too easy for the peacekeepers and over too quickly for me. I would have liked the major battles to not have ended so quickly. The action was very good, which is probably why I wanted it to go on longer!I would rate this book somewhere between a 3 and a 4, and I gave it a 4 rating for the fact that it IS better than the first two books and does a very good job of expanding the peacekeeper universe and not just rehashing previous novels. It also does a good job of being self contained and you won't be lost if you haven't read the first two novels in the series.