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When Angels Fall
The last fortress is falling, the last fleet is burning, and The Last Marines are loading their rifles for the final fight.
The Seraphim Fleet returns from a desperate mission to the galactic core and finds Earth on the brink. The Collective’s continent-killing siege platforms and hidden “murder ships” dominate orbit as Weermag armies punch through the Quantico defenses. Every front is collapsing, and the moon-sized predator, the Gravmaw, is hunting Gaibron and Liathon, threatening to devour friend and foe alike.
Winters must gamble everything on a two-front a suicidal fleet strike to blind the enemy’s orbital guns while Stathis leads Earth’s first true orbital combat drop—through the lethal Kessler debris storm—to shore up the failing lines. If both blows land, there may be a path to hold Earth long enough to turn the tide and save Emperor Mathison. It’s a desperate gamble with a low probability of success… but there are no other options.
The epic conclusion to The Last Marines series—where heroes choose how they die, and some deaths may save worlds.
When angels fall from heaven, do they become demons... or martyrs?
The Seraphim Fleet returns from a desperate mission to the galactic core and finds Earth on the brink. The Collective’s continent-killing siege platforms and hidden “murder ships” dominate orbit as Weermag armies punch through the Quantico defenses. Every front is collapsing, and the moon-sized predator, the Gravmaw, is hunting Gaibron and Liathon, threatening to devour friend and foe alike.
Winters must gamble everything on a two-front a suicidal fleet strike to blind the enemy’s orbital guns while Stathis leads Earth’s first true orbital combat drop—through the lethal Kessler debris storm—to shore up the failing lines. If both blows land, there may be a path to hold Earth long enough to turn the tide and save Emperor Mathison. It’s a desperate gamble with a low probability of success… but there are no other options.
The epic conclusion to The Last Marines series—where heroes choose how they die, and some deaths may save worlds.
When angels fall from heaven, do they become demons... or martyrs?
429 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 23, 2025
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William S. Frisbee Jr.
34 books57 followersReader, writer, martial artist, US Marine, Veteran, Squad Leader, Team Leader, Saw Gunner, Rifleman, Computer Consultant, Security Officer, Dungeon Master, world traveler, Computer Gamer, dreamer, realist, American and best of all Dad!
Growing up in Europe during the height of the cold war and then serving in a Marine SOC (Special Operations Capable) Battalion during the collapse of Communism provided a lot of life experience and a unique perspective on life and the world. The first novel he read was Jules Vern's 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea' when he was ten and has been reading ever since.
Before the Marines he was a pocket protector wearing nerd, after the Marines he held jobs as a Security officer/Patrol Sergeant, Lieutenant and other odd specialized jobs like body guard or surveillance, and ended up brushing off the pocket protector to become a Computer Consultant.
These days he dreams of quitting his day job as a computer consultant to work full time as a writer and dad.
Learn more at http://www.WilliamSFrisbee.com Thank you!
Growing up in Europe during the height of the cold war and then serving in a Marine SOC (Special Operations Capable) Battalion during the collapse of Communism provided a lot of life experience and a unique perspective on life and the world. The first novel he read was Jules Vern's 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea' when he was ten and has been reading ever since.
Before the Marines he was a pocket protector wearing nerd, after the Marines he held jobs as a Security officer/Patrol Sergeant, Lieutenant and other odd specialized jobs like body guard or surveillance, and ended up brushing off the pocket protector to become a Computer Consultant.
These days he dreams of quitting his day job as a computer consultant to work full time as a writer and dad.
Learn more at http://www.WilliamSFrisbee.com Thank you!
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November 16, 2025
What a let down
After 14 novels, the series is finally done. And what a major disappointment. I was expecting an action packed finale with shocking character deaths and answers to the many questions the previous books hadn't answered. Instead what I got was a decent amount of action, very few answers, a massive letdown of an ending, and one of the biggest cop outs from the author desperately trying explain away why the ending sucked so bad.
So what was so bad about this book? Buckle in because the list is a doozy. The Wolfgang chapters are a waste. The previous book already explained who he was and how he died. There was no need for further explanation considering we already knew how it would end. It was just a huge waste of time.
Bonnie is a wasted character, who has no purpose or point. She's been a big waste of a character who contributes nothing to the overall story since the first book she appeared in. She should've been written off a long time ago. Literally every time she's been asked a question in the last four books her answer has been I don't know.
Enzell started out as an interesting villian, but he was able to go undetected for far too long. Sif is psychic and constantly thinks about how something is off with him, yet never does any investigating about it.
The president is found and then completely ignored after that. Once he's rescued he's just shuffled off to the side and nothing else happens. The former leader of the US who was infected by the Collective and nobody thought to interrogate him? The author hints that there may be more with him later on, but it's clearly just an excuse to cover up the fact that the author didn't know what to do with him.
The vanhat assassins coming after Sif are never explained. How are they able to get past the inkeri generators? Don't know. Where are they coming from? Don't know. Who is sending them? Don't know. Will they keep coming? Don't know.
Levine protecting Sif in the astral realm is never explained. Granted it's been a really long time since Levine has been in the series, but I have no idea how he's able to go from a time displaced Marine, to an astral realm protector that always shows up to save Sif.
Levine just disappears earlier in the series and is never mentioned again, until the very end where he becomes a literal deus ex machina. He just shows up out of nowhere at exactly the right time to save the day. How did he get there? Don't know. How did he know to go there? Don't know. What happens next with him and Sif? Don't know.
Kaelan has a plan to overthrow Hakala but it never happens and isn't mentioned again. He plans on spreading an infection through Bifrost so he can take over, but it's interrupted and he never follows through on it. He finally gets what's coming to him and taken away, but he definitely should've been taken out completely. He's shown that he won't stop trying to usurp Hakala.
In the first attack at Earth, a major character is killed and it's just glanced over. This is a character who has been by Winter's side from the beginning of the mission and then just poof. Gone. Not mentioned again.
Mathis has spent the last two books stuck in limbo, not dead or alive. And then in the last seconds of the book, he comes out of the coma and then the book ends. He doesn't get a grand revival and leading the attack against the Weermag or Collective. Just oh hey by the way he's back and fine now.
The author clearly didn't have a good ending to the book or a good way to tie up all the threads. So he gave a half hearted attempt at it, and then to make it worse, gave a George RR Martin level cop out of "maybe it's not supposed to have a satisfying ending. Maybe it's done. Maybe it's not." To end a series of 14 really good novels (well 13 and then this garbage) on such a downer is a huge disappointment.
After 14 novels, the series is finally done. And what a major disappointment. I was expecting an action packed finale with shocking character deaths and answers to the many questions the previous books hadn't answered. Instead what I got was a decent amount of action, very few answers, a massive letdown of an ending, and one of the biggest cop outs from the author desperately trying explain away why the ending sucked so bad.
So what was so bad about this book? Buckle in because the list is a doozy. The Wolfgang chapters are a waste. The previous book already explained who he was and how he died. There was no need for further explanation considering we already knew how it would end. It was just a huge waste of time.
Bonnie is a wasted character, who has no purpose or point. She's been a big waste of a character who contributes nothing to the overall story since the first book she appeared in. She should've been written off a long time ago. Literally every time she's been asked a question in the last four books her answer has been I don't know.
Enzell started out as an interesting villian, but he was able to go undetected for far too long. Sif is psychic and constantly thinks about how something is off with him, yet never does any investigating about it.
The president is found and then completely ignored after that. Once he's rescued he's just shuffled off to the side and nothing else happens. The former leader of the US who was infected by the Collective and nobody thought to interrogate him? The author hints that there may be more with him later on, but it's clearly just an excuse to cover up the fact that the author didn't know what to do with him.
The vanhat assassins coming after Sif are never explained. How are they able to get past the inkeri generators? Don't know. Where are they coming from? Don't know. Who is sending them? Don't know. Will they keep coming? Don't know.
Levine protecting Sif in the astral realm is never explained. Granted it's been a really long time since Levine has been in the series, but I have no idea how he's able to go from a time displaced Marine, to an astral realm protector that always shows up to save Sif.
Levine just disappears earlier in the series and is never mentioned again, until the very end where he becomes a literal deus ex machina. He just shows up out of nowhere at exactly the right time to save the day. How did he get there? Don't know. How did he know to go there? Don't know. What happens next with him and Sif? Don't know.
Kaelan has a plan to overthrow Hakala but it never happens and isn't mentioned again. He plans on spreading an infection through Bifrost so he can take over, but it's interrupted and he never follows through on it. He finally gets what's coming to him and taken away, but he definitely should've been taken out completely. He's shown that he won't stop trying to usurp Hakala.
In the first attack at Earth, a major character is killed and it's just glanced over. This is a character who has been by Winter's side from the beginning of the mission and then just poof. Gone. Not mentioned again.
Mathis has spent the last two books stuck in limbo, not dead or alive. And then in the last seconds of the book, he comes out of the coma and then the book ends. He doesn't get a grand revival and leading the attack against the Weermag or Collective. Just oh hey by the way he's back and fine now.
The author clearly didn't have a good ending to the book or a good way to tie up all the threads. So he gave a half hearted attempt at it, and then to make it worse, gave a George RR Martin level cop out of "maybe it's not supposed to have a satisfying ending. Maybe it's done. Maybe it's not." To end a series of 14 really good novels (well 13 and then this garbage) on such a downer is a huge disappointment.
November 10, 2025
What a Series!
What a series! That was.awesome work, William! . I read the the whole thing as soon as the books came out
What a series! That was.awesome work, William! . I read the the whole thing as soon as the books came out
January 14, 2026
Excellent continuation of an excellent military sci-fi series! Looking forward to more in this series.
January 1, 2026
Absolutely loved the series but am thoroughly disappointed by the ending or more importantly lack thereof. Hopefully the author does decide to come back and give the characters and story arc an actual conclusion as this just left me feeling completely let down by the whole series.
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