Very interesting and exciting parallels here.

This series storyline reminds me in many ways of the Mass Effect video game trilogy storyline. I find many parallels between the two. Both evoke a very compelling storyline of cooperation across a variety of diverse species in a space-faring environment. And the cooperation is for noble goals and the promotion of good over evil.

My assessment is not meant to take away from either storyline but to show the similarities between the two. There are so many similarities, in my view at least This author could have easily been the lead writer for the video game series.

Incidentally, this game series is arguably the most successful of all time and considered by many in the gaming community to be the gold standard for the RPG/FPS genre.

So far I am really enjoying this series and will purchase the entire series based on the first book.