It's... ok.This book starts to make good on the strife building at home on Earth but it's a bit clumsy. Overall it's repeating a lot of the same themes the books have already gone through and doesn't feel like it expands any long term plots enough to add as much as it could or should to the series.Some of the actions going on around Earth come across as rather annoying to the reader. You can see some coming and have to just ask yourself "really?"The excessive repetition of certain essential background elements that have been explained in every book in the series is really old. Who picks up a series of books at some point other than book one? Since I also reviewed the first book and mentioned the Lost Fleet family of books I'll mention that again here. They repeat a lot and it might be my failing memory, but it doesn't feel as dragged out most of the time. Most of the background Lost Fleet repeats is done much more efficiently than in this series. It's still a process I don't agree with, but it can be done better. Another awesome book! I breezed thru this book in a few days time (reading on and off during the week). Can't put the book down as the action is really fast paced and Ian Douglas keeps on adding new things to the plot line.This time around our space fighter pilot, Trevor Gray has been promoted as captain of the America Star Carrier and surprise, surprise, Koenig is now President of the new USA. There are new aliens with technology years ahead of humanity (the Slan) and Trevor needs to figure out how to defeat them as well.As usual, the book is full of sci-fi stuff that all sci-fi fans will love and the plot line of this series just keeps getting better and better!Currently reading book 5 of this series and that too is as good as this one! :-)
What do You think about Deep Space (2013)?
I won this in a Goodreads Giveaway.A kick-butt sci-fi novel set in space.
—gwendee
The author studied physics before he wrote science fiction.
—sorndorff
