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Brigadier General #3
Assault Line
Former Brigadier General Dean, who is now Captain Igor Lavroff, is still far from completing his main task, but the most pressing problems seem to have been solved. The attack from the outside has been repulsed, all charges dropped, and the new high office opens up great prospects. But as we know, if you think everything’s okay, then you just don’t know everything...
During a deep raid on the rear of the quargs, Igor Lavroff makes two unpleasant discoveries at once.
One, six months from now, the Earthlings will have to repel attacks of dozens of Titan-class battleships, which means the enemy can neutralize the defenses of any star system controlled by humanity.
And two, the war with the quargs has entered a moderate phase not because the enemy has weakened, but because he is fighting on two fronts. Somewhere in the depths of space, the quargs face a force capable of destroying cruisers with a powerful weapon that burns through armor. Yet Lavroff feels that even such a powerful potential ally of humans in the war against the quargs is being defeated.
Which means that very soon the Earth Federation will have to repel a particularly massive attack by the sworn enemy.
Does humanity have time to prepare for a decisive battle? Or is it too late?..
During a deep raid on the rear of the quargs, Igor Lavroff makes two unpleasant discoveries at once.
One, six months from now, the Earthlings will have to repel attacks of dozens of Titan-class battleships, which means the enemy can neutralize the defenses of any star system controlled by humanity.
And two, the war with the quargs has entered a moderate phase not because the enemy has weakened, but because he is fighting on two fronts. Somewhere in the depths of space, the quargs face a force capable of destroying cruisers with a powerful weapon that burns through armor. Yet Lavroff feels that even such a powerful potential ally of humans in the war against the quargs is being defeated.
Which means that very soon the Earth Federation will have to repel a particularly massive attack by the sworn enemy.
Does humanity have time to prepare for a decisive battle? Or is it too late?..
126 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 18, 2020
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April 21, 2021
Oddly Appealing
The storyline continues to be cumbersome to follow with a translation which remains mostly Russian in construction. And yet, somehow, the story still appeals to me. Character development is acceptable. The story threads are interwoven with each other and mostly resolved at the end of this installment.
The storyline continues to be cumbersome to follow with a translation which remains mostly Russian in construction. And yet, somehow, the story still appeals to me. Character development is acceptable. The story threads are interwoven with each other and mostly resolved at the end of this installment.
October 18, 2021
I got 72% of the way through book 3 before I gave up so I'm giving all of the first three books the same review.
These books tell an over all interesting story, at least to likes of me, which is why I got as far as I did. The author, however, makes some incredibly stupid story choices which irritated me to the point of where I stopped reading.
So human "group A" (my name for them) are 100 years into slowly losing a war against alien "frogs". Group A discovers "wave" tech (I forget if that is what the author called it). This tech does two things: First, it dectects humans (and at least some of their thoughts) at great distances. This allows Group A humans to discover Group B humans. Group B is thousands of light years away and roughly 300 years behind in tech. Group B is 30 years into losing a war with aliens.
Second, "wave" tech allows one human consciousness to be merged with another under the right circumstances. Those circumstances lead to a Group A Brigadier General being placed into the head of a 15 year old Group B boy. This boy then joins a military academy and founds a business advancing Group B military tech.
The stupid crap: First is that the high and might of the Group B military-industrial complex are attempting to use the war to "take over". This makes no sense for two reasons: The first is that this group of conspirators should absolutely know humans are losing war. What do they think the aliens are going to do with them when they take over????? The aliens don't communicate with humas so, for all these idiots know, the aliens view as food..
Second, the conspirators allies in the military are the worst of the worst. Even if they succeed in taking over, how would they win an already mostly lost war with this idiots? More, what do they think the actually competent professional military types are going to do? The military knows its is losing so the conspirators couldn't really trust any of the military. After all, since the military are all looking at death regardless why wouldn't one of them shoot a conspirator if given the chance? It has already come out publicly once that the conspiracy is contributing to losing the war (the true conspirators weren't exposed, just a bunch of their corporate lackeys).
Next, but quite possibly, the most stupid thing of all: Based on no evidence the conspirators conclude that the Brigadier General is in the 15 year old boy. Seriously. The conspirators know nothing of "wave" tech, all they know is that a 15 year old awoke from a coma to go from average to genius. Child prodigies are a thing and yet somehow the conspirators have video of the MC psychoanalyzed and come up with "he's possessed by an old man". Further that conclusion DOES NOTHING TO EXPLAIN THE MC's TECH KNOWLEDGE!!! So why does this bizarre passage even exist??? (Frankly, it almost certainly exists because the author wanted to give the reader some foreshadowing of the bad guys but the author could have just had the bad guys discussing the threat the MC poses. That would have been consistent with the author's world building and left out the insanity.)
Finally, there is the MC's stupidity of not introducing tech fast enough. MC's excuse: Group B humans aren't ready. Meanwhile the Group B humans are losing battle after battle with aliens only gaining speed, in part due to new alien ships the humans can't really oppose. Essentially, at the point I stopped the Group B humans should lose. Obviously that's not the story since there are currently 3 more books in this series but the author has spent too much time and energy showing all the reasons the humans should lose. It is to the point where human victory has become unbelievable AND THAT IS WITHOUT THE LAST OF AMAZINGLY STUPID STORY CHOICES:
The conspirators' big plan to get the president out of the way: Hypnotize him into taking command of a doomed fleet himself. Ignoring the stupidity of the whole "hypnotize the president" story line, the fleet sent on this doomed mission is THE LAST COMBAT EFFECTIVE HUMAN FLEET. HOW DOES THIS CONSPIRACY MAKE ANY SENSE AT ALL. THEY APPEAR TO BE ACTIVELY WORKING TO LOSE THE WAR AND THE AUTHOR HAS TOLD US THAT THEY DON'T HAVE SOME KIND OF AGREEMENT WITH THE ALIENS. THE CONSPIRATORS ARE, FOR ALL PRACTICAL PURPOSES WORKIGN AT BEING IMPRISONED (AT BEST) BY ALIENS.
Finally, on the poor planning front: each of these books are an installment. This author does nothing to prvide story resolution. This is somewhat mollified by the story focus on the journey of the Brigadier General, but, all in all, the overall plotting of these books is poor unless you consider it as a mechanism to draw out the story to sell 6 short books instead of one or two good books.
Bottom line: The stupid story lines became overwhelming, especially in light of the poor plotting.
These books tell an over all interesting story, at least to likes of me, which is why I got as far as I did. The author, however, makes some incredibly stupid story choices which irritated me to the point of where I stopped reading.
So human "group A" (my name for them) are 100 years into slowly losing a war against alien "frogs". Group A discovers "wave" tech (I forget if that is what the author called it). This tech does two things: First, it dectects humans (and at least some of their thoughts) at great distances. This allows Group A humans to discover Group B humans. Group B is thousands of light years away and roughly 300 years behind in tech. Group B is 30 years into losing a war with aliens.
Second, "wave" tech allows one human consciousness to be merged with another under the right circumstances. Those circumstances lead to a Group A Brigadier General being placed into the head of a 15 year old Group B boy. This boy then joins a military academy and founds a business advancing Group B military tech.
The stupid crap: First is that the high and might of the Group B military-industrial complex are attempting to use the war to "take over". This makes no sense for two reasons: The first is that this group of conspirators should absolutely know humans are losing war. What do they think the aliens are going to do with them when they take over????? The aliens don't communicate with humas so, for all these idiots know, the aliens view as food..
Second, the conspirators allies in the military are the worst of the worst. Even if they succeed in taking over, how would they win an already mostly lost war with this idiots? More, what do they think the actually competent professional military types are going to do? The military knows its is losing so the conspirators couldn't really trust any of the military. After all, since the military are all looking at death regardless why wouldn't one of them shoot a conspirator if given the chance? It has already come out publicly once that the conspiracy is contributing to losing the war (the true conspirators weren't exposed, just a bunch of their corporate lackeys).
Next, but quite possibly, the most stupid thing of all: Based on no evidence the conspirators conclude that the Brigadier General is in the 15 year old boy. Seriously. The conspirators know nothing of "wave" tech, all they know is that a 15 year old awoke from a coma to go from average to genius. Child prodigies are a thing and yet somehow the conspirators have video of the MC psychoanalyzed and come up with "he's possessed by an old man". Further that conclusion DOES NOTHING TO EXPLAIN THE MC's TECH KNOWLEDGE!!! So why does this bizarre passage even exist??? (Frankly, it almost certainly exists because the author wanted to give the reader some foreshadowing of the bad guys but the author could have just had the bad guys discussing the threat the MC poses. That would have been consistent with the author's world building and left out the insanity.)
Finally, there is the MC's stupidity of not introducing tech fast enough. MC's excuse: Group B humans aren't ready. Meanwhile the Group B humans are losing battle after battle with aliens only gaining speed, in part due to new alien ships the humans can't really oppose. Essentially, at the point I stopped the Group B humans should lose. Obviously that's not the story since there are currently 3 more books in this series but the author has spent too much time and energy showing all the reasons the humans should lose. It is to the point where human victory has become unbelievable AND THAT IS WITHOUT THE LAST OF AMAZINGLY STUPID STORY CHOICES:
The conspirators' big plan to get the president out of the way: Hypnotize him into taking command of a doomed fleet himself. Ignoring the stupidity of the whole "hypnotize the president" story line, the fleet sent on this doomed mission is THE LAST COMBAT EFFECTIVE HUMAN FLEET. HOW DOES THIS CONSPIRACY MAKE ANY SENSE AT ALL. THEY APPEAR TO BE ACTIVELY WORKING TO LOSE THE WAR AND THE AUTHOR HAS TOLD US THAT THEY DON'T HAVE SOME KIND OF AGREEMENT WITH THE ALIENS. THE CONSPIRATORS ARE, FOR ALL PRACTICAL PURPOSES WORKIGN AT BEING IMPRISONED (AT BEST) BY ALIENS.
Finally, on the poor planning front: each of these books are an installment. This author does nothing to prvide story resolution. This is somewhat mollified by the story focus on the journey of the Brigadier General, but, all in all, the overall plotting of these books is poor unless you consider it as a mechanism to draw out the story to sell 6 short books instead of one or two good books.
Bottom line: The stupid story lines became overwhelming, especially in light of the poor plotting.
March 4, 2021
Better!
Good action, good plot, the characters weren't done real well, but it was good words in a row. Only because I'm a speed reader. If someone had to plow through this word by word, it may be tough.
Good action, good plot, the characters weren't done real well, but it was good words in a row. Only because I'm a speed reader. If someone had to plow through this word by word, it may be tough.
June 1, 2021
Well the series is a win.
I just can't say enough good things about books you don't want to put down. Fast, enjoyable reading. The plot makes small twists and brings in new elements. On to the next.
I just can't say enough good things about books you don't want to put down. Fast, enjoyable reading. The plot makes small twists and brings in new elements. On to the next.
October 9, 2021
Good Story idea bad completion
I am appalled at the grammar and general composition of words used. It almost seems like it was written buy someone who has English as a 3rd language. There needs to be a Lot of editing done.
I am appalled at the grammar and general composition of words used. It almost seems like it was written buy someone who has English as a 3rd language. There needs to be a Lot of editing done.
November 23, 2021
Good story
The structure of the story is good and entertaining.
The only distraction from it is the transition grammar lol.
Looks like Russian to English always produces interesting combinations.
The structure of the story is good and entertaining.
The only distraction from it is the transition grammar lol.
Looks like Russian to English always produces interesting combinations.
October 27, 2021
So annoying
I had to give up in the end. As much as I was enjoying the story line, if I read the word "Have" instead of "had" one more time I'm going to go crazy..
I had to give up in the end. As much as I was enjoying the story line, if I read the word "Have" instead of "had" one more time I'm going to go crazy..
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July 28, 2022Rating: minus 1
Michael wrote a positive review. It might be worth reading. I do not see any point in redoing what has already been done well by another.
For a glimpse into my Goodreads experiences, please read either my review of "Dark Horse", a nice story by Diener or Powers of the Earth (a sorry book) and comments from a Claes Rees, Jr/cgr710 (a self-identified NeoNazi). If not curious enough to be bothered to read either, please look at another's reviews. Thank you.
GLORY TO UKRAINE !!!!
The series to me at least does an interesting job with the alien cultures, goals and political organization. The human organizations are not imaginative but there are still big ideas, from the portals to stagnant, dying alien species. This is rare in US fiction (or that targeted to US audiences).
I have moved away from print science fiction towards the streaming services. Netflix has the largest and a multilingual collection, as well as much higher writing quality than the bulk of Amazon's genre fiction.
I discovered Curiosity Stream/Nebula by accident and as a source of good educational video am very satisfied with it. At $15 USD for a yearly subscription, its worth a look.
I turned to YouTube for a serious community of book lovers and have not thought about Goodreads since. Except that is, to methodically neaten groups of scribbled notes to self and further aggravate my sociopathic fans. Together with book tubers, my other interest channels include these favorites.
UA Courage, Some More News, Philosophy Tube, 2Cellos, Tara Mooknee, Art by Annamarie, Munecat, Eleanor Morton, Tulia, Novara Media, Niki Proshin, The Juice Media, Stefan Milo, Sabine Hossenfelder, Lady knight the Brave, Beautifully Bookish Bethany, Abbie Emmons, Emmie, A Clockwork Reader, Lilly's expat life, Rebecca Watson, Tibees, Quinn's Ideas, The Narrowboat Pirate, Chloe Stafler, AstronautX, Cruising the Cut, The Narrowboat Chef, Camper Vibe, What Vivi did next, Adult Wednesday Addams, Invicta, The Templin Institute, Lady of the Library, The Armchair Historian, World War Two, The Great War, Practical Engineering, Tom Nicholas, 2 Steps from Hell, Certifiably Ingame, Renegade Cut, Jessie Gender, Sarah Z, Swell Entertainment, We're in Hell, Answer In Progress, Diane Callahan Quotidian Writer, Juliette Wade, A Cup of Nicole, Autumn's Boutique, Lady of the Library, Luciana Zogbi, Karolina Zebrowska, Jill Bearup, With Olivia, Mala Armia Janosika, Zoe Baker, Battle Order, Sort of Interesting, Noah Sampson, Big Joel, Maximillien Robespierre, The Piano Guys, AllShorts, France 24, Alize, Alice Cappelle, Jessica Gagnon, Patrick is a Navajo, Three Arrows, Double Down News, Mrs Betty Bower, Savage Daughter, Avalishvili, St Petersburg Me, Lily Alexander, Cruising Alba, Steampunk, Alt Shift X, Dan Davis History, Epimetheus, Spacedock, Prime of Midlife, The Gravel Institute, Tom Nicholas, Northern Narrowboaters, Bookslike Whoa, Linguoer-Mechanic, Battle Order, Eckharts Ladder, StatQuest, Raptor Chatter, Kings and Generals, Writing with Jenna Moreci, IzzzYzzz, Jabzy, The Piano Boat, Overly Sarcastic Productions, Ben and Emily.
I wish you a sunny morning, a breezy afternoon, a glorious evening and a pleasant night.
Those who treat politics and morality as separate spheres, understand neither.
Lore, Dark Sisters
Michael wrote a positive review. It might be worth reading. I do not see any point in redoing what has already been done well by another.
For a glimpse into my Goodreads experiences, please read either my review of "Dark Horse", a nice story by Diener or Powers of the Earth (a sorry book) and comments from a Claes Rees, Jr/cgr710 (a self-identified NeoNazi). If not curious enough to be bothered to read either, please look at another's reviews. Thank you.
GLORY TO UKRAINE !!!!
The series to me at least does an interesting job with the alien cultures, goals and political organization. The human organizations are not imaginative but there are still big ideas, from the portals to stagnant, dying alien species. This is rare in US fiction (or that targeted to US audiences).
I have moved away from print science fiction towards the streaming services. Netflix has the largest and a multilingual collection, as well as much higher writing quality than the bulk of Amazon's genre fiction.
I discovered Curiosity Stream/Nebula by accident and as a source of good educational video am very satisfied with it. At $15 USD for a yearly subscription, its worth a look.
I turned to YouTube for a serious community of book lovers and have not thought about Goodreads since. Except that is, to methodically neaten groups of scribbled notes to self and further aggravate my sociopathic fans. Together with book tubers, my other interest channels include these favorites.
UA Courage, Some More News, Philosophy Tube, 2Cellos, Tara Mooknee, Art by Annamarie, Munecat, Eleanor Morton, Tulia, Novara Media, Niki Proshin, The Juice Media, Stefan Milo, Sabine Hossenfelder, Lady knight the Brave, Beautifully Bookish Bethany, Abbie Emmons, Emmie, A Clockwork Reader, Lilly's expat life, Rebecca Watson, Tibees, Quinn's Ideas, The Narrowboat Pirate, Chloe Stafler, AstronautX, Cruising the Cut, The Narrowboat Chef, Camper Vibe, What Vivi did next, Adult Wednesday Addams, Invicta, The Templin Institute, Lady of the Library, The Armchair Historian, World War Two, The Great War, Practical Engineering, Tom Nicholas, 2 Steps from Hell, Certifiably Ingame, Renegade Cut, Jessie Gender, Sarah Z, Swell Entertainment, We're in Hell, Answer In Progress, Diane Callahan Quotidian Writer, Juliette Wade, A Cup of Nicole, Autumn's Boutique, Lady of the Library, Luciana Zogbi, Karolina Zebrowska, Jill Bearup, With Olivia, Mala Armia Janosika, Zoe Baker, Battle Order, Sort of Interesting, Noah Sampson, Big Joel, Maximillien Robespierre, The Piano Guys, AllShorts, France 24, Alize, Alice Cappelle, Jessica Gagnon, Patrick is a Navajo, Three Arrows, Double Down News, Mrs Betty Bower, Savage Daughter, Avalishvili, St Petersburg Me, Lily Alexander, Cruising Alba, Steampunk, Alt Shift X, Dan Davis History, Epimetheus, Spacedock, Prime of Midlife, The Gravel Institute, Tom Nicholas, Northern Narrowboaters, Bookslike Whoa, Linguoer-Mechanic, Battle Order, Eckharts Ladder, StatQuest, Raptor Chatter, Kings and Generals, Writing with Jenna Moreci, IzzzYzzz, Jabzy, The Piano Boat, Overly Sarcastic Productions, Ben and Emily.
I wish you a sunny morning, a breezy afternoon, a glorious evening and a pleasant night.
Those who treat politics and morality as separate spheres, understand neither.
Lore, Dark Sisters
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