Jamie SawyerReseñas

3.5 stars

Good military sci-fi.

A fun read for fans of Military SciFi. I found the novel fast-paced, enjoyable, and I liked what the author did with Krell space.

There is certainly a war, but I founf no eternal part to it.

Excellent conclusion to the Eternity War trilogy. Fast-paced, exciting, military sci-fi. The overworked military slang can get a bit cloying, but the characters and the story are strong enough to carry the action forward at an unrelenting pace. I look forward to reading more from this author.

A fun read for fans of Military SciFi. I found the novel fast-paced, enjoyable, and I liked what the author did with Krell space.

Another great story in this gritty and unrelenting ultra-hard sci-fi series. Lt. Keira Jenkins and her motley crew of sim warriors are stranded in deep space after she is betrayed by her lover. They have to escape captivity in a brutal Asian Directorate prison and hunt down the Black Spiral terrorists while trying to avoid an all-out assault by the diseased Krell who are swarming into human space. As always action is paramount and moments of introspection are rare. The story hardly stops to breathe as it bounces from one battlefield to the next. Nothing particularly intellectual about but its certainly adept story-telling. Looking forward to the conclusion of the series very much.½

Stacked with every conceivable space war cliche and sometimes the gruntspeak is really laughable, but still highly enjoyable. Conrad Harris, a veteran soldier in the Simulant Operations Corps (think Avatar and you'll get an idea of what that means) leads his squad in a mission to a hostile star cluster to retrieve a scientific team monitoring a huge ancient artefact. Harris finds the leader of the team has become a murderous megalomaniac who forces the soldiers to assist him in uncovering the secrets of the Artefact. The Artefact has also attracted the attention of the hostile fish-like Krell, whom Harris and his soldiers must battle to escape from the planet and get home. What it lacks in originality the story more than makes up for in pace and action, there are few quiet moments, most of these moment consist of flashbacks to Harris' memories of his lost love Elena. These flashbacks are annoying, interrupt the flow of the story and add nothing to the plot, in fact they feel very much like padding. The book simply doesnt need them, its a compelling page-turner that relies on pace and non-stop action, and this it does very well. I'll definitely be seeking out the rest of the trilogy, one of the best space opera books I've read in a while.½

I enjoyed this robust, fast-moving space opera, nothing startlingly original, but good, strong characters, tidy plotting and lots of action. The heroine is Lieutenant Keira Jenkins of the Simulant Operations Programme, commander of a squad of malcontent rookies in the Alliance Navy. Simulant operations involve manipulating flesh and blood simulations which do the actual fighting, the death of the simulant is called a "transition", and the number of transitions undergone denotes experience and promotion. Following a bungled operation against the sinister terrorist group known as the Black Spiral, Keira's squad are banished to an ageing ship sent to conduct a search for a missing vessel, where they encounter the Black Spiral again as well as an old enemy, the warlike Krell, and discover the beginnings of a massive conspiracy. Entertaining and a real page-turner, great light reading, well worth the price.

This story is told in first person, from the perspective of an elite soldier named Conrad Harris, he has earned the nickname Lazarus because he keeps coming back from death. The book examines the future of warfare, in this story, Conrad leads an elite team of sims. This team uses enhanced clones of themselves to go out on missions, they die and wake up again. The book looks like it's going to examine this and its meaning to humanity, but doesn't get there.

The writing is mostly plain. The author's descriptions go from good and interesting to the kind of bland writing you want to race through. He uses only an occasional metaphor or similie, but it feels contrived.

The characters are one-dimensional. The author does use backstory to try and fill out Conrad's life, but it doesn't work. Often, the actions, and more so the dialog, of Conrad and his team feel more like amateurs playing soldier than elite soldiers. The descriptions of action on a ship during combat occasionally belie an ignorance of shipboard procedures.

If action and military sci-fi appeal to you, you may enjoy the book. I could not finish it.

La continuation logique du livre précédent. On retrouve les mêmes héros avec quelques personnages en plus, dans un contexte complètement différent, mais en même temps similaire.

L’action est toujours aussi rapide et prenante, les personnages agréables, et l’intrigue bien ficelée. Les côtés paranoïa et folie sont sont bien traités.

Une bonne série de science-fiction militaire, en mode space opéra.

Le début d’une série de science-fiction, tendance militaire space opéra. Des spaces marines et des extra-terrestres dignes de [7802::Starship Troopers] et de [8419505::All You Need Is Kill], des héros accrocheurs, une bonne histoire, on ne peut que valider.

Le style est fluide, rapide, et les descriptions précises. C’est parfois un soupçon brouillon et cliché, mais on ne se perd pas en route.

Le livre se lit rapidement, et on en redemande.