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Like the Ewok sequences in Return of the Jedi mixed with Predator. A neat mix.

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.

Started this via Audible on a whim a couple weeks ago and can't believe I'm already almost done with it. Almost 30 hours have flown by!

This is so much better than I expected it to be.

Ambitious but really holding itself together. A very good book so far.

It's kinda funny when things get serious because the prose gets super heavy-handed. "Another one of those deafening cracks fills the space, reality sways a moment longer before it normalizes, and—praise all the angels that ever graced the heavens—the bellowing white noise at long last concludes its forever chorus."

The catharsis in this book makes me feel kinda funny.