This one was ok, not nearly as good as the first two. Big area in the middle about multiculteral groups learning to work together etc, blah! I guess I am glad to have finished the series, but this is the weakest by far. ( )

Boring as hell. (Accurate portrayal of Latino culture though.)

But read the first two books, they’re great. ( )

I really like Ringo's writing style. I really like his plotting style. Both were present in this. However.

I don't think I've seen anyone attempt to shag Kipling's The White Man's Burden into the sunset before, and it's decidedly not a pretty thing. The solid writing was there. The solid plotting was there. It just kept - repeatedly - licking the notion that cultures not American were lesser, and doing so in ways that crossed some pretty hard lines.

I would like to think that this got fixed beyond the Advanced Reader's Copy that I ended up with, but that was some pretty seriously baked in racist crap. ( )

This is a typically relentless full-on military adventure from John Ringo and the third in this particular series. Terra thinks it has a breathing space from the relentless Rangora with the three battlestations built on human visualisations of the Imperial Death Star from Star wars, along with quite a bit of alien technology including a number of AIs that have their own issues. EM Parker is the prototypical ubercapable tech and, probably Ringo's preferred type (the model does turn up in his other books as well :-)).

It does get rather too 'Raa-Raa, America is the best!' through the book, almost as if Americans could ever do anything wrong, and although Ringo was Army, the book is as relentlessly Navy. Still, it's a great read, and to be fair, not all things don't go humanity's way! ( )

A great sci-fi 'space opera' novel. Once again the aliens attack and the defenders of Earth have to fight back in an epic space battle. There's a lot of time spent in this book on politics and training, more so this time than in previous books and a lot less time is spent with Tyler Vernon. Even so, this was fast moving and amusing. Its sure to offend some people though, like the previous books in the series, Ringo is not bashful about his politics. ( )