Review: Good conclusion of the serious although a bit tragical.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2014
Combat, combat and then some more combat. If you are not a fan of combat of all kinds then this is not a book for you. As a matter of fact, the entire series is not for you. I want a fair amount of action in my books but even I felt this one was sometimes a wee bit too much and ocasionally felt it little more than a continous combat episode with a few interludes.It is a good book though and brings the Star Crusades Nexus series to a decent conclusion although there are parts of this conclusion, which I will of course not divulge here, that are a wee bit on the tragic side.Spartan plays a huge role of course although I had a hard time with him being separated from the rest of our human heroes not to mention him playing the role of a traitor. Even though the final conclusion is, as I wrote earlier, a generally satisfactory one I really had a hard time with this part.As if the Biomechs were not enough of a problem the author threw in some dissent between the humans, a insance president and a attempt at a coup just to add to the exitement. I really do not like backstabbing and deceitful politicians and I would have been quite happy if the book had just delt with the Biomechs.These two things is mainly what, to me, drags down the rating a wee bit. Otherwise the book was well done. The combat was as good as it usually have been in these books, which of course means that it was quite good. There is certainly not much slowdowns in this book. It moves ahead at a brisk pace to say the least and it is action almost all the way.