Wiktoria

Legacy Fleet #3

by Nick Webb, Małgorzata Koczańska (Translator), Marcin Bojko (Translator)

Ziemia płonie. Rój przemierza kosmos i podbija światy na swojej drodze. Opłakujemy miliony towarzyszy broni, którzy polegli na tysiącach zniszczonych okrętów. Wszyscy zginęli – miliony ojców, matek, sióstr i braci. Już czas, abyśmy zakończyli tę walkę. Pora na nasz ruch.

Nie ma zwycięstwa bez ofiar. Nie ma szkoleń ani nauki, jak zostać bohaterem. Tacy jak on powstają z krwi, ruin i zgliszczy. Podręczniki do historii naszych wnuków opowiedzą jego legendę i będą głosić chwalę poległych.

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

440 pages, Paperback

Published February 23, 2017

About the author

Nick became a scientist so that he could build starships. Unfortunately, his ship is taking longer to build than he'd hoped, so fictional starships will have to do for now. When he's not adding to his starship collection, you can find him tweeting and facebooking about Nasa, science, space, SciFi, and quoting Star Trek II.

He lives in Alabama with his wife, 2 kids, and 3 motorcycles.


Note: This author also writes books under the name of Endi Webb

Reviews

[Kasia (kasikowykurz) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Początek tej książki to była niezła przeprawa, bo poprzednie dwa tomy ukryły się głęboko w mojej pamięci i nie miałam pojęcia, co kontynuujemy i długo zeszło, zanim w końcu to wszystko wskoczyło na swoje miejsce, ale rychło w czas na szczęście. Dlatego też sądziłam, że nie polubię się z tym tomem, ale ostatecznie dość mocno się wciągnęłam, mimo początkowych trudności i już ta druga połowa to była czysta przyjemność i przypomniałam sobie, dlaczego od początku tak mocno się polubiliśmy. I to mimo mojej głębokiej niechęci do gatunku.

Jedno co mnie martwi, to odczuwam tu taki mocny vibe "to jest już koniec i widać, że ewidentnie zostało to zaplanowane jako trylogia i zakończyliśmy tą epicką bitkę, a wydanych zostało jeszcze 5 tomów, więc ciekawi mnie, o czym są. Czy o tych samych bohaterach, czy o nowych? Czy znowu zobaczymy Rój? (Swoją drogą podobało mi się przedstawienie najeźdźców i ich historia). Trochę bawi mnie, że dzięki tej serii nabieram ochotę na jakiejś poważniejsze SF :D

[Jesse Fort · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cliffhanger

This book ends on a cliffhanger. I have more questions now then I did halfway through this book. It is well written and thought out. Since there will be a new trilogy I'm sure my questions will get answered. A good book always has a few surprises in store for you and this one is chock full of them. Good pace, great action. It is edited well. More please, thanks.

[Jim · Rating 5 out of 5]

We’re back with Captain Timothy Granger and his relatively new ship, the “ISS Warrior” which he picked up after he crashed the “ISS Constitution” into Earth saving the planet from destruction by the Swarm. He’s now gone to another system that has reported a Swarm attack. This has been happening far too often and Granger’s task force seems to arrive just minutes too late to catch the Swarm. Once again, they have destroyed the only inhabited planet with nuclear devastation. Granger is mad, steaming mad, and his thoughts are only about where the Swarm might have gone.

Soon, he’s getting some kind of mental message telling him to look near a certain asteroid belt. He tells his navigator to set a course and off they go. The navigator has told Captain Granger that there’s nothing showing up on his sensor board in that area of space. Still the spaceship plows on and finally arrives to find…nothing!

Granger then sends a mental image of “Where are you? I am here.” No sooner has he done that when 10 or so Swarm carriers appear! Now he’s in a fight for his very life. He’s also sending out thoughts about the Dolmasi who were supposed to be allies. Right after that thought, the Dolmasi show up in sufficient numbers to win the battle.

This keeps occurring all during the book. Either a new ally comes to Captain Granger’s rescue or his enemy asks to form an alliance and stop the fighting. There is a lot of space fighting in this book and I mean a lot! There’s even some ground combat, but I don’t know if you call space Marines invading an alien dreadnought as a ground attack. The dreadnought has over a million inhabitants which obviously means it is extremely large.

Oh, yeah, Granger does manage to get the "ISS Warrior” destroyed. He’s executing a maneuver called Omega Three. That maneuver is nothing more than using your space ship to smash into the enemy. Doesn’t leave much of either ship, but at least the enemy got hammered. Of course the enemy has thousands of replacements, but the Earth Alliance is very, very short on ships. Not a good strategy. After this last Omega Three, Granger and his crew take over the, you guessed it, “ISS Victory”.

I like the character of Captain Granger. He does seem to do a lot on his own, but he is assisted by a very smart Commander Proctor. She also is interesting in that she’s a scientist trying to figure out what makes the Swarm tick. There are other background themes going on specifically with the Vice President who is out to become the President. And then there’s the Chief of Staff General Norton. He’s an enemy of Captain Granger if there ever was one. Unfortunately, the Swarm can infect humans with some kind of virus that can be activated and make them do stuff they wouldn’t otherwise. I wonder if General Norton is infected. How about others?

A great rousing space warfare book that has the hero getting his rear-end saved once too often. The series seems complete although the ending was a bit off. There might be some wiggle room for a continuation; just might.

[Sean Rassleagh · Rating 3 out of 5]

So we are in book 3, heading for the final confrontation and the battles get bigger again. Unfortunately more ships doesn't mean more interesting and the ground rules are just the same: old ship with ten metres thick armour can absorb a lot of punishment and wreck things by crashing into them. Why they would make the armour out of Tungsten I've no idea - I suspect its just because the word 'Tungsten' sounds good. There's a lot of that going around: scientific words used for phonetic impact without any technical justification beyond genre conventions. Apparently having a virus which puts Uranium 238 in your blood lets you communicate with aliens through some kind of subspace signalling. OK sure. As in Star Trek 'Quantum' and 'Singularity' mean roughly the same as 'engage deus-ex-machina'. At one point somebody *throws* a 'quantum singularity' at a baddy and vanishes them.

Time travel always causes confusion and plot holes and this book is no exception with multiple versions of multiple characters. But, to be fair, it gets drawn to a close in a reasonable fashion and there's the expected happy ending. The final political twist after the main ending is really weak but easily ignored because there's not much attempt to get you engage with the politicians anyway.

So the trilogy is over and it wasn't a bad three day reading spree on KU. On its own terms as Battestar Galactica/Star Trek military fan fiction it is enjoyable enough. It's like watching an entire series of Star Trek where every episode is a space battle - three is enough and I'm not planning to start off on the next sequence of novels.

[Roslyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’ve really enjoyed this trilogy, and rated this one slightly lower for 3 specific reasons, all of which are continuity errors.
1) Proctor tells Granger the swarm cycle is 289years, but that suddenly becomes 150years (end of book 2 he’s asked why he thought they came back 75 years early, so error is in book 2 and then cemented in 3)
2) Fodder and Pew Pew are killed in book 2, but miraculously back without comment in 3
3) When Ballsy rescues Fishtail for the 2nd time, he remembers watching it happen just a short while ago. But what he observed then was him rescuing her the first time.
Minor issues in a sense, and I did really still enjoy the books. Made sense not to have killed Fodder and Pew Pew as their roles in this book are better played by standing characters than more newbies. But not being able to track your own storyline from one book to the next isn’t a great trait so did detract a bit. That and the proofreading was sloppier in this book than the others.

[Elizabeth Perez · Rating 4 out of 5]

"The shrillest, most profane leaders win, and the reasonable, quiet voices are squashed."

I enjoyed this one, there were a lot of twists and turns. The one thing I really liked about this series was that it wasn't like Star Trek, it was actually original but in this one it did start to feel a little star trek-ish. I still highly recommend it.

[Mick Bird · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great way to end this series

What a great way to end this series of books. Granger and his crew fight new battles, but find a new ally to finally win the war. I have a feeling that we may not have seen the last of Captain Granger.

[Jarek "the Mistborn" Dąbrowski · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great finish to the trilogy. I really started to love Granger and proctor develops as an awesome character. Many twists and turns with new alien races and the story leaves room for more to come and i will be reading the Legacy Ship trilogy at some point. Overall great space action trilogy. 4 stars

[Ike]

Excellent non-stop action in the on-going battle for Earth and Galaxy domination. Webb has created a thriller full of excellent plot twists all climaxing in one really wondering "who's on first!"

[Lee Zagrzebski · Rating 2 out of 5]

Warning: Some Spoilers
TL;DR Series started tanking at the end of book 1. Many unnecessary simple physics problems ie Nick's ramming fetish.

I heavily debated between two and three stars and wish I could give it 2.5 and settled with a 2, just couldn't round it up. There were multiple times I wanted to put this book down, but made myself power through it.

I've got a whole host of problems with Victory. Overall, there is a noticeable change in tone between book 1 and books 2 and 3. I realized what I enjoyed about book 1 was the near wholesale pillaging of BSG with its gritty tone and substance expressed in Nick's competent writing and style. What followed, and was more clearly Nick's own creation, fell short. Book 1 had a gritty realistic feel to it with a universe where things like Q-jump recharge speed mattered, distances mattered, etc.

But, in books 2 and 3 that changed. I'm guessing there was no plan for post book 1 and when it was a success there was a mad rush to publish more. Nick just started hand waving away all the problems his lazy and simplistic plot created which naturally created bigger problems which required more abusive fiat. So many things that are always way too convenient and contrived and flat out not believable. It fell a long way from book 1, which I enjoyed, and there is no way I'd risk my time on a book 4. Every problem gets a bigger and more unrealistic explanation. And don't even get me started on his ramming fetish...

Physics matters and there is not a reason to lazily ignore the easy stuff. First, ramming. Ramming moving objects in space will not be easy. Ramming things accurately, while explicitly doing it manually, is going to be effectively impossible especially precision scraping flybys of moving enemy ships. Dogfighting with double your mass is going to be a huge hindrance, and how the hell are you accurately flinging those osmium bricks into specific parts of enemy ships. Oh, and if just flinging a couple tons of mass at something works, does doesn't the swarm do that... it's stated they can travel at .5C, so a 2 ton osmium brick at .5C has energy equivalent to over 5,000 Megatons. Oh, and launching those couple tons of osmium bricks at ~50kps does not result in ~100Megatons of energy, it's actually .0006 Megatons. So.... that's awkward, its over 100,000 times less energy than you said it was. Fact checking that literally took about one minute, so there is no excuse for it. So, when the Superdreadnought was destroyed by flying osnium bricks... they would have damaged it but it wouldn't have been too bad at all. And lets not forget that their ability to rapidly accelerate to a fraction of C ie move out of the way of bricks was assured, or that they could have q-jumped away. Hell, when you can accelerate quickly to 150,000 kps, moving a couple of kilometers out of the way of manually aimed bricks traveling at 50kps isn't that hard to imagine.

Throughout the whole series there has been serious issues with velocities and distances. In book 1, things like distance mattered. Remember the Constitution moving along for a week at in system speeds and needing acceleration and deceleration phases. In later books, none of it mattered and everything just got hand waved away. It was sloppy. Look at his final entry into the black hole, assuming an orbital distance similar to earth and the sun(underestimate compared to a binary system with a blackhole) and the fastest speed a ship like the Constitution had gone, a blazingly fast 50kps, it would have taken him over 800 hours to have reached the black hole. It was described as happening in minutes. Oh, and the mag rail guns which fired slugs sooooooo fassssssttttt at "a couple dozen" kps were still being used. This is the kind of thing that just didn't need to be there. Just describe a Q-jump to the event horizon and be done. Can we talk about the emergency pods launched at that extreme velociety, ie too late to avoid the event horizon, would have well continued right on into it too. This is similar to the "tactics" used previously where a fleet was split and flew an orbit around the planet in a surprise attack. Its like Nick doesn't understand (Pie x Diameter)/Velocity. Speeds and distances just don't make sense when used, its like Nick never bothered to even conceptualize these things.

Everyone just shows up exactly when and where they need to. Even the final battle, everyone arrived at the same time despite distance or the forcefully reiterated laws of how Q-jumping around works. Sure, you're going to have some of this willing suspension of disbelief in fiction, especially space opera/military scifi, but seriously, there is such a thing as too much.

Let's not get started on the ridiculous politics and intrigue situations. I mean, the whole Isaacson killing Malakov thing... ok, so the super secret base with meta space signal disruptors run by the Russians with years of experience and even a secret metaspace transponder ie naked Russian in a tank, they fail to acknowledge at all that somehow those disruptors are being disrupted by Isaacson(super powerful and somehow accomplished by tiny implants???), and no one notices? Not even a little? The whole thing is just so ridiculous and contrived, it was painful to read. And of course, as was Nick's pattern in these books he continually doubled and tripled down on his style of escalation.

IMO, if you want this series to be great, pretend you've never seen Battlestar Galactica and stop reading book 1 when Granger sacrifices himself. Amazing book. Done. Everything that came after got worse and worse and worse. It got so bad I didn't feel for Grander when he finally actually did sacrifice himself, it just had no effect.

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very clever finale to the trilogy, tying all three books together and answering everything about the different time zones that you could want to know. Webb clearly had the whole thing mapped out in advance of Book 1, allowing it all to be smartly concluded here with answers that are enjoyable and surprising in equal measure. The whole conspiracy stuff that bogged down parts of Book 2 are wisely ditched, leaving only the one question: who do you trust?

Once again, Webb gives himself plenty of time to show off his talent for edge-of-your-seat space battles and morally grey characters. Avery’s plan concerning the dreadnought, along with how it plays out, is shocking and leads to the whole question of where the ethical line is in war, especially when Granger discovers which of their assumptions is wrong. It’s all very clever. It takes the trilogy forward to a conclusion, as well as having an influence on the first 2 books, leading to it all feeling exciting and very much complete.

There is an odd bit at the start. Out of nowhere, we spend four chapters with a new character called Rodriguez, who then vanished for the rest of the book. I’m not sure why he was there, I don’t feel he added anything of value and his story, such as it is, wasn’t finished. It’s an odd handful of chapters. Occasionally, the book explains stuff twice, almost as if it’s nervous that maybe not everyone followed the first time around, which made some of the dialogue feel unnecessary. I also don’t buy a tiny reveal in the book’s epilogue; I feel Webb was more interested in putting a little sting at the end, without it really making much sense. I suppose it’s fine, but it is unnecessary final couple of pages to what is otherwise a thrilling read as well as a wholly satisfying conclusion to the trilogy.

[Jazmin Quinci · Rating 5 out of 5]

awesome

This book is definitely a must read for sci-fi lovers thrilled by space fleets, military engagement, war and of course aliens. The book moves right to the point, war in space with united earth battling an unknown alien force. What's awesome about the plot are the twists that take the story to new heights. Webb did awesome with some character development and the main players are decent, average. Their personas are not very sassy but headstrong. Yet, all in all, its very entertaining. I love the President and Vice President's, their banter is more memorable than Captain Granger and his XO Procter who are typecast, typical, and predictable. I didn't love either but they served their purpose however unimpressive flat-liners their personas are from book to book. The mystery of the aliens compensated for their lack of sparkle. Wish Webb elaborated more on the aliens and their culture. Like Webb doesn't explain why the alien matriarchs children die out? How does this species breed? At what point do the alien children leave their ships? Their descriptions are brief and more information would be good. The imagery of the destruction is pretty bleak and frightening. Despite my seemingly negative criticism, Webb's writing is tight and enjoyable. I recommend this book, bottom line its worth reading even if it's similar to what's out there on the shelves.

[Barakiel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great sci-fi series. Thoroughly enjoyed the audiobook.
The series started out great, but got progressively less enjoyable. My main issue was one of personal taste, I'm not fond of introducing many alien species into a sci-fi book/series. It just seems unbelievable to me that in a short time the human race would encounter multiple alien species. This was also an issue in Blackfleet Trilogy.

There is a kind of major issue in this book: a character is suddenly alive, that was killed off in book 2. Without any explanation that I am aware of. I'm leery of bringing characters back from the dead to begin with, but this takes the cake. Pew Pew and his brother clearly died in book 2. I either missed something or there is a big mistake here.

All in all a good series. I devoured it. A bit sciency, some of it went completely over my head. But there was enough tension and action to have kept me reading 'til the end. Granted, by the end of this book I didn't much care anymore, but it was an enjoyable series overall, nevertheless.

[I Cristian · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nice ending to the first trilogy, though the fact that they leave us with a few loose ends takes away from the enjoyment. It seems like the author simply decided he will milk this series for longer, which, to be honest, makes it less enjoyable.
Anyway, we get to meet a new alien race, we finally understand how the Swarm acts and we see that there are enemies everywhere and backstabbings abound.
It is funny that I could live with the way Webb blatantly copied BSG and other SF to create the first book in the series, but it got unbearable in the penultimate fight, where he overuses the "leader that decides to not trust his most efficient warrior and almost loses the fight with his pigheadedness". Seriously, the situation was bad enough, you don't need to overuse this stupid ploy (which was already heavily used till now).
I still thoroughly enjoyed reading these 3 books.

[Krzysztof Żyliński · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jak to często bywa trafiłem przypadkiem. Kumpel ze szkolnej ławki - Tomasz Maroński - rysował to i owo (okładkę), więc wziąłem. I patrz jaki numer ! Czy rysowałby Tomek, czy nie Tomek, to to jest rewela ! Niby sci-fi, ale 99,5 % książki rozumiesz. No może jak jesteś ministrantem czy tam z PIS to z 31%, ale to wciąż dużo ! Naprawdę fajna, odmóżdżająca ksiązka !

[Sean Alexander · Rating 2 out of 5]

I found this book thoroughly confusing; enemies are friends and friends are enemies or are they? Are the good guys bad guys or are the bad guys the good guys. I have no idea, the space battles are becoming more unbelievable with every one. I have to decide whether to finish it or not.

[Christopher · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another Page Turner

Excellent, enthralling read! Be prepared to lose some sleep, like I did – you won’t be able to put it down until you’re finished with the breath-taking conclusion! More Grand science fiction writing from a new master — Nick Webb.

[Bea · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dej a rôzne línie príbehu, ktoré sa druhým dielom celkom zamotali sú momentálne ešte komplikovanejšie. Hoci sa postupne niektoré línie spájajú a postupne sa objavuje aj podstata Roja, ale tým zároveň je veľa prvkov príliš komplikovaných.

Roj má v sebe vírusovú zložku, čo spôsobí, že každý môže byť "agentom" roja, čo značne zneprehľadní situáciu. Zároveň sa potvrdzuje to, čo je naznačené v druhej časti - skoky v čase a "stretnutia" postáv z minulosti a prítomnosti, politická línia má tiež svoje neprehľadné zákruty a málo informácii na dešifrovanie stavu, takže čitateľ sa na žiadnu informáciu nemôže spoľahnúť. čo trochu zamrzí.
No a našlo sa aj zopár logických chýb, čo predpokladám vznikli kvôli snahe podchytiť konce línií.
Ešte čo ma tak trochu zarazilo, že hoci by tu malo ísť o boj ľudstva/vojska proti roju, vyznelo to ako sólo akcia kapitána, akoby bez neho boli všetci úplne neschopní. To trochu devalvuje celkový dojem.

Napriek všetkým výhradám to za prečítanie stálo, niektoré prvky boli fajn, len by som si želala, aby tam bolo menej zvratov, náznakov a trochu lepšie rozložená zodpovednosť, aby to nestálo na jedinej osobe. Záver je celkom fajn.

[Dean Ezra · Rating 5 out of 5]

Disclosure: I am a sicker for space operas...

I liked the whole trilogy of this series and especially liked this final installment, the decisions by the author in the first book now make sense! They weren't made just to get three books out (phew!).

The addition of extra characters in the form of extra alien species was nice, but the building of the main characters is what made the book for me (in addition to a interesting plot twist in the third book).

Granger as the old long in the toothe captain and Shelby Proctor as the young modern second in command worked well together, keeping each other in check while also fiercely loyal to each other.

Plus I looked the feeble vice president trying to kill the 'grandma' esk president mini plot line.

As usual scifi can't seem to avoid putting Russians as the enemy and this book follows that too. But whatever.

Its a pity the trilogy was a trilogy by the end, as I wanted to see more of the characters adventures - maybe they are in Mr Webb's other books?

[Linda · Rating 1 out of 5]

...and then it all comes tumbling down. Oyy.

You know, I really liked book 2 of this series. I mean, it wasn't amazing or anything, but it expanded on book 1 nicely and offered its own cool stuff. After having followed its predecessor fairly closely without losing much of a beat, it also ended on a spiffy cliffhanger. But now, 3rd book in, and I'm thinking, what the hell happened? Unlike book 2, this book did NOT pick up where it left off, and kinda puts that cliffhanger in the background to be touched upon later on in no fancy sort of fashion. Just a sorta, "Oh, btw reader, here's a bit more of what we left you, some bits of scraps. Kay that's enough, let's move on." Meanwhile, I get new characters I don't really wanna know about (and frankly, don't have time for) and the same old ship-battling scenarios like the first 2 books. Like, how's anyone still alive anymore? The number of deaths of civilians or warriors or just...ANYONE is getting ridiculous. Surely there'd be no more to kill. Zero. Zilch. Nada. And the threats to the seemingly (at times) invincible ships, while seemingly very serious, feel almost non-existent as the scenes carry on. Like, wasn't there a hull breach earlier? Soo.....what happened to that? The story bounced all over the place in such a fashion and I was like, omg, whaaaat's happening right now? And now there's time travel to contend with? As if THAT'S always an easy subject to tackle.

There's too much to keep track of anymore, I legit even can't remember much of this book, if I'm being brutally honest. That's how much it lost me. I may have even dozed off a time or two due to being a bit more bored than I was with the previous two books. I seriously had to sort of peruse the pages again trying to try and reminisce about it for the purpose of this review, but it feels so foreign now. A new alien species comes aboard, so there's that. A tad too much political nonsense was peppered throughout as well, but at least it helped remind me why I despise politics. Another discovery after my perusal of this book, and upon completing it--and I realize that it's likely my femininity coming into play here but--this story is in dire need of some freaking romance or something. I want to be able to care, REALLY care about characters, their safety, their passions, etc. But I can't even get THAT to sort of...help me trudge alone with all the overwhelming chaos that keeps happening. Will nothing keep me grounded?

I barely want to even move on to book 4, but I'm in this for the long haul. I guess.

[Trish · Rating 1 out of 5]

The writer's innumeracy broke my suspension of disbelief. A billion here, four hundred thousand there, situations and scenes became too crowded to be plausible even granting the science fiction premises. If only there has been one, or preferably two, fewer zeroes.

I forced myself to finish reading this book in order to learn the fates of certain characters in the story.

Some of them met noble ends, some were done in, some were set up for a sequel.

One group met a disturbingly grisly end, made all the more unsettling because they were not villains.

Obviously, this turned out not to be my cup of tea. I wish the writer well, but his books are for someone else, not for me.

[Franziska Tinner · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was demanding

Not being a scientist and having just a very basic understanding on the universe, wormholes..... and singularities... I struggled with all the scientific and technical information in this book. I found it just too technical, and I consider myself intelligent. Just too complicated a story for a casual and enjoyable read. I couldn't follow, and I mainly read sci-fi for fun and diversion. But this story is getting to be way too difficult to be able to follow easily and enjoying the ride.. It's too far out there. I don't know if I will read the rest of this series. I am literally exhausted from reading this book.

[John Allen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Entertaining wild ride of a story - as with the other books lots of space battles, but I really liked the various aliens and how they factored into the story. This is the third of the series that appears to start out as a "trilogy" but there are two more books in this series. Without ruining it for anyone the story wrap up in this book. I am now reading book four and I can see that the author decided to extend his story telling, probably because the original three books did so well. At any rate this book (three) is a good read.

[Simon Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

A mighty buildup with a suitably epic conclusion to this series of space-faring battles, headed by engaging characters. I thoroughly enjoyed Legacy Fleet trilogy. The ending was satisfying with lots of loose ends tied off.
The author kept the story arc tight with minimal distractions or side-plots. Some of you might like more exploration to the impacts some events have on people, but they really can take up entire novels in themselves. And perhaps they should. For the Legacy Fleet trilogy though, it was tight storytelling from start to finish.

A great read!

[Iah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mostly a good ending to the story it was an interesting​ story, while it had many parallels to BSG in book one it diverged to become totally different. The last few chapters seemed a little messy and almost felt like the author got bored. But overall a good trilogy... part 4 however! I've just started and already switched to another book.

So don't be put off by the BSG comparison it's not a copy.

[Edgar Guedez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Is the Swarm threat over?

Less battle action in this book than in the previous but more intrigues and plot twists. I have trouble understanding the science of Singularities, captain Granger coexisting in the same time reality after traveling thru a singularity. As a matter of fact, I think the science of this book is dead wrong. And no explanation at the end on how the Russian president survived a 300 feet fall.

[Robert Moore · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great story almost to the end

This third installment to the series was really exciting. The tension was intense. The story reached a climax with the outcome unclear to the end. I enjoyed it, until the epilogue. The utterly implausible twist revealed in the last couple of pages damaged my enjoyment. I was so bothered that I could no longer give five stars. I'll take a peek at the next installment before bothering to download it.

[Lubos Elexa · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pozerám, že hviezdičky v iných recenziách veselo pribúdajú. Asi som čítal inú knihu. Išlo to poriadne z kopca, a to som, bohužiaľ zistil, že pribudol aj štvrtý diel. Neprehľadné súboje, divná vesmírna fyzika, nasilu tlačená politika (hoci záver trochu prekvapil). Opakujúci sa dej, v tých bojových stretoch nebolo takmer nič, čo by sa vymykalo prvým častiam. Snáď okrem pribúdzajúcich "spojencov", z nich však niektorí veľmi nelogicky reagujú na agresivitu ľudí spoluprácou. Proctorová naďalej všemohúca a riešenie celého konfliktu prišlo akosi na počkanie. Cestovanie časom fuj, pri treťom skákaní singularitou som už netušil, kto kam lezie alebo kto sem odkiaľ priliezol, a hlavne KEDY to teraz (potom, predtým) bolo.

[QEDS · Rating 5 out of 5]

Opravdu skvělé pokračování a úžasné vyvrcholení celého příběhu. Tolik zvratů a následného vysvětlení jsem opravdu nečekal. Říkal jsem si proč? jo tak... a zase proč? jo tak... Tak jako u předešlých dvou knih jsem tuto přečetl prakticky na jeden zátah. Tato kniha vám odpoví na všechny otázky které vám vyvztanou u dvou předchozích knih, vše dokonale zapadá do jednoho harmonického vyvrcholení. I když malou skulinku pro možné pokračování si podle mého autor v příběhu nechal.

[Daniel Morris · Rating 1 out of 5]

Enjoyed the first book, but continuity issues started creeping into the series. In this book, I found myself confused and flipping back through the others. Supposedly dead characters show up alive with no explanation, and details like the number of ships in a battle go from 300 in book two to 50 when remembered in book three. Besides continuity problems, there are some obvious logic issues. It feels like the author is making this story and universe up page by page.