The former soldier in me had to cringe and just how realistic some parts of this story were, mostly the bureaucracy. I never thought I could look so poorly at the AoP, yet here I am, waving my own commune flag.
Its book 3 and Stone has finally made it home. The expectations the prior two stories had set up for me, were totally shattered, and I was left gripped at how this story built back up. Once again new characters are never glossed over, keeping the mental painting of what is being told to us very vivid, expansion of what we know about the banshees is splendid, building a fantastic Sci-fi villain.
Book three will take you through excitement, hope, anger, let down and leave you hanging on tight to yet another M.R. Forbes cliffhanger end. If you need a great Sci-fi series to start, this is the one!
Pros:
Memorable characters
Deep vivid world
total lack of slow down, no filler
cons:
not enough Rozik this time! 1/100,000,000,000th of a star removed.