Brandt Wills tried to prevent a final cataclysmic war between Terra and Luna. He failed. Now he’s falling back to the totalitarian world of his birth, but he’s not alone. With advanced cybernetics, the AI computer ghost of Sharron, and a partly-tamed alien symbiont, he might even have a chance. All he has to do is land behind enemy lines, fight his way into the fortress-towers of the State of Terra, and find the location of the hidden laboratories of Singularity before the final war wipes all life from two worlds.
Oh, yeah, then he has to break into one of the hidden laboratories to find out what’s inside of him and how to get it out. If that’s even possible. Not only are the laboratories hidden, though, they are also well defended by troops armed with rail guns, plasma weapons, and self-propelled grenades. And those are just the weapons Brandt knows about.
And if all of that wasn’t difficult enough, he’s now on the radar for the other players in the system. Venus would love to control him, and Saturn and Jupiter are moving forces into place to capture him. Will Brandt be able to unlock the mysteries of the alien symbiont in time, or will he become just another science experiment for Singularity or one of the planets?
We left Brandt in a perious situation at the end of Book 1... Well, by the end of book 2, the situation doesn't look that perilous anymore... as in not a clear and present danger, as Brandt still has some travelling to do before meeting danger! In Interface, we find all the ingredients which made Integration such a great book: a fallen hero looking for redemption, evil enemies and non-stop action! The only thing lacking is the characterization of the antagonists: as Brandt is facing bad guys by the truckload, they are not individuals but rather members of an evil system, well or of an even more evil subsystem within an evil system! At the end of Integration, we knew that Brandt went to Earth to shut down Singularity. He didn't manage to stop the war between Terra and Luna before it happened, so he had a lot to do... On his way to deal with Singularity, Brandt will meet some decent human beings, unlikely allies, enemies, new and old, threats and a game changer... To learn more and to understand why the stakes just went exponentially higher, read the book! I, for one, am looking for the next installment!
A good book overall but every chapter seems to end with our hero expecting to die. Of course he always manages to fight his way out of every impossible situation or after fighting hard to kill him, his pursuers suddenly decide to capture him instead which leads to him making yet another desperate escape. I'm hoping for less "Perils of Pauline" in the final episode.
This story got as repetitive as a video game. It had the same violence, the same pain and miraculous new life, the ever-increasing "powers" as the game progressed, with only a change in "worlds". Although the different scenarios or worlds ARE extremely imaginative, it just got so the whole thing seemed like a nightmare.
This was a better book than the first in the series. It is still way over the top as to what reality is, and you have to not think about what is going on and just accept it. Good fast interesting read. Not a book I would choose to read a second time.
If, can't, "descend into darkness", death or dying. The first book was ok but apparently the author ran out of ideas. Apparently never heard of composition either.