Review: Nailed it again!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 19, 2012
I enjoyed the book tremendously and thought the writing was a far cry better than the previous installment.  The relationships were better developed, the action was more engaging, the suspense and developments that took place more believable, etc.  I have to say I loved Jake about as much as the awesomeness that was Tag from book 1 and Valerie has become my favorite Queen out of all of them.I also liked that the author decided to utilize some old ideas and technologies/strategies.  Understandably, some will take such a recycling of ideas to mean he ran out of new inspiration, but I think once you reach the point of conquering the best of any universe your dimension has to offer, having millions of ships able to teleport instantaneously and fire an unstoppable beam that destroys anything in its path, there really isn't anywhere to go from there.Those early books in the series were my favorites and it seems the more outrageous the volumes became, they lost some of their heartfelt qualities; you didn't feel the casualties as much or care for the protagonists and their plights.  This book brought a lot of that feeling back and I thought the ending proved to be quite satisfying, though a bit too abrupt.