Status Updates From The Uplift War (The Uplift ...

Hell yeah. Humans stripping down to loincloths to avoid being tracked by their tech and fighting aliens in the woods. Battlestar Galactica meets Predator.

Not a complaint, but I can't remember the last book I read that had me reaching for a dictionary this often.

Dense but good. I see in these early pages that I jumped to some wrong conclusions in the previous books -- apparently human were already well into uplift of dolphins and chimpanzees before they made alien contact.

Off to a pretty good start, I think? Introduced to Fiben, an uplifted Chimpanzee, Athaclena the Tymbrimi, and very briefly, her human friend Robert Oneagle. They appear to be preparing for war on the planet Garth, waged by a birdlike alien race the name of which I have, embarrassingly, already forgotten.