Review: fun if you do not think too much about it
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 13, 2014
Fairly good military fiction with space battles against overwhelming odds.  Definitely slips into four stars partly for teh economical pricing  It is not critical to read the earlier books in the series although they might add to understandingThe book could use some editing.  Some tactics that are listed as brilliant are so self evident to make you wonder about the rest of the fleet.  If you can jump through some form of hyperspace why not jump behind your enemy and shoot him.  Nobody figured  multiple hits in one spot can pierce the enemy force shield.  One bomb containing the explosive force of the ones used probably has a good chance of breaking through instead of multiple blasts within milliseconds.  The part that seemed most illogical are freezing military officers for four hundred years  and expecting their experience to be relevant.  Would an officer from the Napoleonic wars have been mush use in Afghanistan or even WWII.  Would the weapons have been so similar?  400 years knowing an implacable enemy was waiting to attack and they can't develop a step change in weaponry? Military tactics are so unchanged that an admiral from 400 years ago is their genius leader?  The bad guys development may be frozen; but, what is the humans excuse?Get over your leaps in credulity and the book is fairly fun military fiction.  At least it is very clear who the bad guys are.  David Weber and Steve White do it better but I have read all their older published books and they are getting excessively greedy with their latest books.  If you like this book try In Death Ground, The Shiva Option, The Stars at War, Honor Harrington series....  But this book is less expensive and a fun mindless read.