Review: Kind of a let down.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 15, 2014
Evan Currie has a great imagination and he tells a good story in these books.  If you read the first 3 books in the series you kind of have to read this book to find out what happens.  I'll try not to add any spoilers but I will say I found the ending kind of rushed and added as more of an afterthought which left me feeling empty and unsatisfied.Evan writes some amazing battle and fight scenes, his descriptions are so thorough you feel like you're part of the action.  He builds up the intensity until you're breathing heavy and perched on the edge of your seat ready to devour each new word and then BAM he stops the action cold to explain some scientific word he used or a principal of physics or the intricacies of a new alien weapon.  You're in a churning sea of action then suddenly you're smack dab in the middle of a dessert surrounded by still air.  By the time he gets done droning on and on and on about his scientific explanation you've forgotten what part of the story you were in.  It's really distracting especially when he does finally get back to the story he often jumps to a new place and different characters which really throws the reader off course.  I would have to read for a page or longer to figure out where I was in the story and he'd jump to a new location.I liked this story a lot, I thought it was new and exciting.  Like I said his battles are a great read but the negative of his incessent scientific droning drives me crazy so I will not read any of his other books.  I am glad this arc of the story is finished so I won't feel compelled to read a new arc if there is one.  He makes me hate his writing because of this annoying habit of explanation.  I wish I could get through to him that he should put these explanations into footnotes so the people who are interested in all the details can go to the footnote and read it and the rest of us can move on with the story.  At times I think he would really rather write technical manuals or textbooks than an interesting story.If you haven't read any of the books in the series I wouldn't recommend reading them, yes it's a good story but it's too frustrating to read through especially when you get to this the final book in the series.  It starts out so slowly and takes awhile to get up to speed and when he gets to the important and most exciting part he stops and winds it all up in an epilogue.  I want to scream at him and say why did you waste all of our time with the explanations and leave out how the story ended?  It's like he got bored at the end or he needed to meet a deadline which is probably more accurate so he just stopped writing and tied it all up in a short epilogue,  What a cop out.  If you read the first 3 books you're going to want to read this but don't expect much.BTW when we found out in the first book that the aliens had an almost molten internal temperature why didn't they ever try to fight them with cold?  My simple mind had that idea from the beginning.  If they're so hard to kill with conventional weapons I'm thinking liqid nitrogen or any pressurized gas that freezes when it's released would be an effective weapon.