The Day of Battle

Exodus: Empires at War #6

by Doug Dandridge

Sean needs a victory, before Parliament returns a no confidence vote and leaves him a figurehead ruler.The Ca'cadasans are almost through with their conquest of Sector IV, and from the there, the heart of the Empire is exposed.The Ca'cadasans continue to roll over the New Terran Empire and the New Terran Republic. Hit and run tactics are taking a toll on the enemy, bleeding them, but not enough. Frontier worlds, developing planets, and worse, the industrial powerhouses known as Core Worlds, are falling at an alarming rate, and even the new weapons based on wormhole tech can't stop them. Risks need to be taken, everything put on the line. Sean must come up with a plan that allows him to take on and defeat the Caca battle fleet. Only then can he buy the time his Empire needs to battle the enemy on even footing, and keep the people without a plan from gaining controi of the Empire. Defeat could spell disaster, but so could inaction. He has even more new weapons to deploy, devices beyond imagination, and the shipyards are working to capacity. Allies are gathering, but so are regional enemies who join the cause of the enormous aliens. And a client species of the Cacas is looking to play both sides to their own benefit, while the Cacas plan on a strike that will take wormhole technology away from the humans, once and for all. The Day of Battle is upon the Empire, and the history of the human species depends on the outsome.

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Genres: Science Fiction, Space Opera, Military Fiction, Military Science Fiction

479 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 24, 2014

About the author

Doug Dandridge was born in Venice Florida in 1957, the son of a Florida native and a Mother of French Canadian descent. An avid reader from an early age, Doug has read most of the classic novels and shorts of Science Fiction and Fantasy, as well as multiple hundreds of historical works. Doug has military experience including Marine Corps JROTC, Active Duty Army, and the Florida National Guard. He attended Florida State University, studying Biology, Geology, Physics, and Chemistry, and receiving a BS in Psychology. Doug then studied Clinical Psychology at the University of Alabama, with specific interests in Neuropsychology and Child Psychology, completing a Masters and all course work required for a PhD. He has worked in Psychiatric Hospitals, Mental Health Centers, a Prison, a Juvenile Residential Facility, and for the his last seven years in the work force for the Florida Department of Children and Families. Since March of 2013 he has worked as a full time writer. Doug has been writing on and off for fifteen years. He concentrates on intelligent science fiction and fantasy in which there is always hope, no matter how hard the situation. No area of the fantastic is outside his scope, as he has completed works in near and far future Science Fiction, Urban and High Fantasy, Horror, and Alternate History.
Doug has published 34 books on Amazon, with over 230,000 sales with 5,000 reviews averaging 4.6 stars. He will be publishing his first traditionally published book in 2018, followed by the second book of the contracted series. Also in the planning stages are post apocalyptic and alternate history series.

Reviews

[Jim · Rating 5 out of 5]

One Battle Does Not Win a War!

My subject line should probably be a good replacement title for this episode in the Exodus Saga. The young Emperor has set the stage for a major battle which, if won, will certainly cripple the invading Casca enemy. There are many things happening at the same time in this book. Some are hard to follow. Some you know should have the Emperors attention but he's busy enough without having to do everything himself. Still, with good people around, he shouldn't have to but it's apparent that he doesn't have the most competent people where they should be. How does an Admiral come to be in charge of the "Donut" security without himself being securely screened? Those kind of mistakes can lose this war.

So, we have an inconclusive end to this battle and to the war. It doesn't appear that the much needed victory the humans wanted has happened although they are not through with the battle even though the Cascas are running back to their base which has already been destroyed. So it looks like we'll have to wait for the next book to really find out if this effort has really done a lot of damage to the enemy.

I'm not especially fond of books that leave you hanging. This one does and even during the battle, it's a little hard to follow just who's winning. There are so many numbers being thrown around that it's impossible to know which really mean anything. That doesn't mean I didn't like this book, because I did, and I do look forward to the next one in this series.

[Per Gunnar · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is not often that I give a book 10 out of 10 stars. This one however merits one without a doubt in my mind. It is the third book this year that I have felt merited that rating and one of those other books are also in this very book-series. This book has most of the things I really like in a good space opera and little of the stuff I do not like. Good characters, plenty of action (especially fleet action), good story and it is generally well written although I did spot a few rather noticeable typos here and there. Not enough to distract from the enjoyment though.

In this, the sixth instalment in the series, Sean and the rest of the humans are finally dishing out some payback to the Ca'cadasans. I just loved to read those parts. I also liked that the strikes are not glossed over as are done in too many otherwise good books. You get to follow the Ca'cadasan side of it when the hammer falls as well. These parts are just great.

Naturally there is no paradise without its worm(s). Incompetent politicians and selfish spoiled billionaires are, as usual, making a valiant effort to disrupt things. These things do luckily, given how much I dislike political bullshit and manipulation, not hold a too prominent place in the book though. Worse are the shapeshifters that are infiltrating and sabotaging the war effort. Not my favorite part of the book. Although some of them are adequately dealt with we do not get to know the full extent of the damage of these despicable creatures' actions before the end of the book.

Although we are treated to several human victories in the book it ends in quite a bit of a cliffhanger with several loose ends. One being the previously mentioned shapeshifter debacle were we are truly left hanging in the middle of the battle. Another one being the "client spieces" of the Cacas that the humans discover. If I should single out one thing I did not like with this book it would be this part. This new species are all too much resembling a well-known species from an equally well-known Sci-Fi franchise, at least behaviour-wise, and I do not like that at all. The author might of course surprise me in the next instalment but I have to say that I would rather be without these aliens and are not looking forward to reading any more about them.

Despite these minor misgivings I cannot but give this book a top rating and I am eagerly awaiting the next instalment.

[Aaron Anderson · Rating 3 out of 5]

So the Emperor basically is an idiot and has to lead from the front. It would almost make sense prior to all of their wormholes, but it's utterly stupid now.

Even MORE stupid is his girlfriend, who first forces her way into joining him, then cries and whines that he isn't paying enough attention to her because he's busy trying to prosecute a war. How stupid is she?

[Deborah Fegan · Rating 1 out of 5]

Publishing disaster!!!!!

Publishing disaster!!!!!

My copy of this book was missing at least every other page. It may have been good but I can't wade through it.

[Mark Kearney · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant role on the next book

[Red Tide · Rating 2 out of 5]

Battles galore, stupidity rampant

I Like the Dr. Yu, which makes it impossible not to wonder about the lazy security on Humanity's most important facility. An admiral imposter can avoid DNA scans for weeks, maybe months? A higher admiral dismissed the security concerns raised by the facility director and doesn't investigate a potential infiltration? Go figure.

The invasions are fun but I can't imagine a planetary assault against any populated planet that doesn't run into many millions of troops, in just the first and second waves. An invasion would have to involve not armies but army groups. Wormholes as described don't change that reality.

Funny security and smaller assault forces than would be needed are a feature of the series. Overlook both and the story is fun.

[Hugo Andrade · Rating 5 out of 5]

Addictive!!

One of the best Si-Fi reads i have read in the level of the lost fleet by Jack Campbell.. its great