I’ve been reading this series of sci-fi novels for a couple
years now, getting the newest one soon after it hit Amazon. It’s inexpensive,
for a new novel, I supposed because it is only being distributed as an ebook.
These books do have some difficult language, but not too much, in my opinion.
They deal with sexuality in a very non-explicit way, which I hope is the only
way it is ever mentioned in future books. The author is a veteran, and the
military culture expressed in the novels feels incredibly authentic.
This book was the story of the various human militaries
(North American Commonwealth, Sino-Russian Alliance, and European Union)
combining their remaining might to strike back at the Lankies on Mars. The hope
was that the humans would be able to completely defeat the aliens and regain
control of the Red Planet, but this was not to be. The forces involved in the
attack suffered terrible casualties, though our main characters did survive.
Many civilians who had been trapped on Mars were saved. The biggest development
in the novel was that humanity learned that the Lankies were far smarter and
more complex than they had seemed. The aliens laid excellent traps and thought
in tactical and strategic concepts. They learned from their past encounters
with humans how to counter their technologies. They are also able to reproduce
their powerful starships in a sort-of organic manner, which means that
defeating them will be like stopping an incoming tide.
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