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War of the Ancients Trilogy #3
The Reckoning: War of the Ancients Trilogy Book 3
It is the end of all things. Ancient ships sweep across the galaxy, conquering worlds with ease. No one can stop them. It seems to be only a matter of time before Pierce and his allies control everything.
Meanwhile, the Oracle, Pierce's mysterious advisor, has plans of its own. His own closest friend is questioning his motives.
With Earth under occupation, Hanson searches for allies. With a secret at the heart of a million-year-old dead alien and a farfetched plan, the galaxy might just have a thin ray of hope. But the great powers have their own problems. Old allies are ready to betray one another. Revolutions are brewing.
One thing slowly becomes clear: If they can't put aside their differences and concentrate on the true threat, extinction awaits all.
War of the Ancients Trilogy:
Book 1: The Dauntless
Book 2: The Destroyer of Worlds
Book 3: The Reckoning
Meanwhile, the Oracle, Pierce's mysterious advisor, has plans of its own. His own closest friend is questioning his motives.
With Earth under occupation, Hanson searches for allies. With a secret at the heart of a million-year-old dead alien and a farfetched plan, the galaxy might just have a thin ray of hope. But the great powers have their own problems. Old allies are ready to betray one another. Revolutions are brewing.
One thing slowly becomes clear: If they can't put aside their differences and concentrate on the true threat, extinction awaits all.
War of the Ancients Trilogy:
Book 1: The Dauntless
Book 2: The Destroyer of Worlds
Book 3: The Reckoning
283 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 8, 2018
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May 22, 2019
Stupid series (ending)
I was curious about the ending of the war and if there was going to be any attempt to let me care who wins the war. I quit reading at the 94% mark.
Even the aliens were reduced to cartoons. The whole series is based on one little warship and a junior captain performing all the diplomatic maneuvering, battle planning for a multi-species naval force and generally saving the galaxy. It's a nice piece of world building gone to waste.
The stick figure villains are CEO Pierce, (the minion) Millicent and a small piece of million years old, alien mind/brain?
The CEO is the sweet, caring, ambitious (ruthless, controls the Solar Navy, has subverted the human government and has apparently undermined the government which is never described) business tycoon who just wants to promote the interests of humanity (by extending his already damaging control over human economic life), who allows an alien mind fragment to force?? him to take over the galaxy for the good of the human race?
His tools are an unexplained cloning technology, an unexplained nanite technology for building ships, his own battleship-equipped navy and a multi-species criminal network. None of this is noticed by the Solar Navy intelligence service(s). The Solar empire/federation/association/whatever if it exists, doesn't have a clue either. The corruption in the military/naval leadership (a large chunk of which must be beholden to the CEO) isn't noticed by the navy/military leadership. Does any of that make sense?
Millicent (minion extraordinaire) goes from 20 something temp to CEO's right hand woman with no special qualification in what seems to have been a couple of months? (a year or two maybe?, it's not explained). She's another really caring person, who loves her niece (there's no backstory to explain the connection, family circumstances or anything other than an accident) and says to herself it's OK if the galaxy burns as long as she can visit her niece or something? She doesn't realize what an accomplice is or how weird her father fixation with her employer is. I'm supposed to feel something for her (pity, sympathy, revulsion or what) but does that make sense to the writer? It didn't to me.
The alien brain/mind fragment resurrects itself and influences a nice guy guy CEO to takeover the galaxy with himself as leader of humanity or is it the clone armies. The result of the process is supposed to be the elimination of all life on the galaxy except for the reanimated corpses of the ancients? With villains like these, what was the point of three books?
Those three characters are the most interesting in the series for few values of interesting. They emphasize the silliness of zipping around the galaxy in days, junior captains creating and leading multi-species fleets, no description of the governing body of the one species that is the centerpiece of the story, faster than light communication without explanation and more.
I was curious about the ending of the war and if there was going to be any attempt to let me care who wins the war. I quit reading at the 94% mark.
Even the aliens were reduced to cartoons. The whole series is based on one little warship and a junior captain performing all the diplomatic maneuvering, battle planning for a multi-species naval force and generally saving the galaxy. It's a nice piece of world building gone to waste.
The stick figure villains are CEO Pierce, (the minion) Millicent and a small piece of million years old, alien mind/brain?
The CEO is the sweet, caring, ambitious (ruthless, controls the Solar Navy, has subverted the human government and has apparently undermined the government which is never described) business tycoon who just wants to promote the interests of humanity (by extending his already damaging control over human economic life), who allows an alien mind fragment to force?? him to take over the galaxy for the good of the human race?
His tools are an unexplained cloning technology, an unexplained nanite technology for building ships, his own battleship-equipped navy and a multi-species criminal network. None of this is noticed by the Solar Navy intelligence service(s). The Solar empire/federation/association/whatever if it exists, doesn't have a clue either. The corruption in the military/naval leadership (a large chunk of which must be beholden to the CEO) isn't noticed by the navy/military leadership. Does any of that make sense?
Millicent (minion extraordinaire) goes from 20 something temp to CEO's right hand woman with no special qualification in what seems to have been a couple of months? (a year or two maybe?, it's not explained). She's another really caring person, who loves her niece (there's no backstory to explain the connection, family circumstances or anything other than an accident) and says to herself it's OK if the galaxy burns as long as she can visit her niece or something? She doesn't realize what an accomplice is or how weird her father fixation with her employer is. I'm supposed to feel something for her (pity, sympathy, revulsion or what) but does that make sense to the writer? It didn't to me.
The alien brain/mind fragment resurrects itself and influences a nice guy guy CEO to takeover the galaxy with himself as leader of humanity or is it the clone armies. The result of the process is supposed to be the elimination of all life on the galaxy except for the reanimated corpses of the ancients? With villains like these, what was the point of three books?
Those three characters are the most interesting in the series for few values of interesting. They emphasize the silliness of zipping around the galaxy in days, junior captains creating and leading multi-species fleets, no description of the governing body of the one species that is the centerpiece of the story, faster than light communication without explanation and more.
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April 11, 2018Impressed...
I really enjoyed this series. Had a hard time putting it down. Loved the characters. The story was fresh. I literally did not want it to end. I simply couldn't put it down. I wish there were more. Hint, hint...
I really enjoyed this series. Had a hard time putting it down. Loved the characters. The story was fresh. I literally did not want it to end. I simply couldn't put it down. I wish there were more. Hint, hint...
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