really am interested in the story but to be honest I don't like much of anything else about the book/series, Really easy read too easy, This is a great sequel to the first book in this trilogy, It's a fun read and flows unbelievably smooth, This is by far one of the easiest reads I have read and I love it for that, You never have to reread a sentence to comprehend it, The story follows where the last one left off and is action packed, J. D. has some great ideas going and some good character arcs even though this story is totally centered on one group, There isn't any "side story" going on which is this books strength and only weakness, You never get the enemy or antagonist POV but he still manages to keep the story interesting, I can't say there was much of a cliffhanger but I'm anxious for a third book, Great job!
If I may suggest an idea for the third book J, D. It would be awesomely interesting if Jason and the gang have to rush to defend Earth, Once again, JD Clarke has written an interesting space opera adventure that kept the pages turning, The main characters are really in it deep by the end of this book, having decided to take on a galactic empire pretty much by themselves, I'm enjoying how people act like people in this series as well, Some truly are good people, some are irredeemably selfish and usually end up getting themselves killed, and most are in between, Very few of them see the "big" picture and they feel like they're just trying to live their lives the best they can, . . which is of course impossible because they're now being hunted by the machines of a galactic empire, I'm looking forward to seeing how all this turns out there's a few clues already as to how things could go, but the author doesn't always do the obvious thing, so I'm hesitant to say I know anything of what's coming.
And that's what makes
a book worth reading :
What's most interesting to me, however, is where the author is headed with respect to dialogue between machine intelligence and organics.
These are not Cylons they truly don't understand human behavior most of the time, . . nor do they care. They act like computers in that their thought patterns really are kind of alien, Easy to predict in many ways, but surprising in others, I'm fascinated to see how the plotline with Sybil and the attempts to actually create a lasting peace through understanding by the main character will go, In most books, I would think that it's obvious and will lead to the happy ending, In this series, I'm really not sure, I'm definitely kept guessing.
Keep up the good work, JD, and I'm looking forward to book,
Not a bad second book to this series, Again we're involved with a bunch of earth scientist who got stuck on an alien spaceship that was visiting the moon, Now they have taken over the humongous alien spaceship and have found other aliens living in various rings of the ship, It seems that the earthmen and women are the brains of the bunch especially after finding and using the neural nets that the previous alien occupiers of this spaceship had developed and used.
Those original aliens are all long dead now but their neural network is still functional as is everything else on this monstrous ship,
We have found allies in one group of aliens who are very much in favor of getting back to their own world and avenging it's loss, They would like nothing more than to destroy those who took their home world and reestablish themselves as they were before, Unfortunately, the bad guys in this book are all machines, They don't care about flesh and blood humanoids much and would just as soon see them all dead,
But our group of scientist, led by a natural born leader, a archeologist, have figured ways to take control of not only this gigantic mothership, but how to build and repair other ships.
So, they build their own fleet and start harassing the machine empire, Their plan is to try and make the machines so dislike humans that they will decided to leave this part of space and not comeback,
The story line isn't too bad, It has some good action and it's easy to read, One spoiled rotten teenager does decide she is smarter than all the other adults and decides to take things in her own hands, She convinces a group of aliens that she's a God which was exactly what they were looking for and then gets them all destroyed,
Good reading. You'll like this if you like sciencefiction, As the Lunar Contact this book is something you do not want to put down, Easy to read and leave you wanting more all the time, Disappointing. Fight the Unity. turn page Fight the Unity, turn page Fight the Unity, and on and on and on Nary a mention of returning home or anything except Fighting the Unity,.rounded up. Great continuation of the Unity story, Imagine a world where you and your five colleagues are the only humans, Imagine a world where automated factories can make anything you desire, A world filled with futuristic technology gravity generators, androids, holographic computer displays, telepathic communication, plasma fields, nanowelding, pulse rifles, charged particle cannons, personal spaceships, warships, time crystals and faster than light travel.
Now imagine a world surrounded by hostile aliens that only seek your destruction and the conquest of all planetary bodies,
Welcome to the world of Jason Hauptman and the crew of the Defiant, .