Review: Great series, wonderful writing
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 28, 2012
If you love CJ Cherry's Foreigner series you'll love Michael Hicks' writing; he's the first SciFi writer I've found to come close to C.J. Cherryh's masterful skill in story telling and character development. I recommend you read the three books in the Redemption series first and then this series. Michael Hicks characters, even the minor ones are extremely well developed and believable and his handling of the alien culture is not only believable but makes you want to know more about them. Legend of the Sword is another great book in this series, I've first six books in less than three weeks and right now I'm reading the First Empress which is a story taking place 100,000 years earlier.Both the Kreela and humans have very different motives for the war but you'll quickly come to care about characters on both sides. Michael Hicks does a superb job of bringing the Kreelans to life in a believable but unique manner. There is a fair amount of battling in this book, more so than in the three books of the Redemption series but it is still about very believable story about people, well people and Kreelans. The characters and their motives drive the plot which has it's share of surprises and even disappointments as happens in real life. Superb story telling!