It’s a unique story, but doesn’t make sense so don’t think about it too hard or it becomes irritating very fast. The performance is okay except for the Clint Eastwood vibe every time Jane speaks. The first book was better, because of the mystery of the powerful enemies and the confusion of amnesia. Unfortunately that is quickly destroyed in this book by the chatty bots controlling the mysterious ships. The only reason this book exists is plot armour like Star trek style. Poor ensign Ricky has to do a lot of dying. The mysterious foe was almost too much for a fleet by itself. Now a fleet of those ships show up and though winning they get heavily pummeled. Worse of all is the game changing technology they have, but never use. The microtechnology that could repair, attack, pretty much anything is never used Planetside. Worse yet they act like the droids used are living by retreating instead of self destructing near enemies. They have a decade and new this enemy was out there waiting. They could have built multiple bases with multiple AI copies of themselves to prepare. Also in a less is more sort of thing they try to describe things that just don’t mesh. Six legs with the aft feet looking like a frog feet and the front having eagle talons on a herbivore that walks. I’m okay with this book, because I like some of the unique points, but there’s a lot here that’s really stupid. So I guess if you need to kill some time it’s okay, but don’t think to hard.