I have enjoyed the whole series, but this final book was incredible,
Not only is the book entertaining from an action point of view, but it is also chilling in the plausible way it details how freedom can devolve into fascism.
The ending could have been a little better, but I definitely enjoyed the book, Ok, I'm pissed. I finished the series. There's so much more that can be done, Come on Heppner back to work, . . please Piąty tom, który w zasadzie kończy cykl, Co prawda autor wspomina o możliwości kontynuacji, ale to byłaby inna, zapewne dziejąca się później historia,
Niestety ostatni tom jest najsłabszy, Przede wszystkim sprawia wrażenie fabularyzowanego dokumentu, Nadmiar geopolityki tak naprawdę mocno ograniczył fabułę, Poszczególni bohaterowie stanowią jedynie punkty zaczepienia przebiegu historii, Podkreślają to wstępy do rozdziałów, cytaty z nieistniejących opracowań naukowych omawiających przebieg wojny SinoAmerykańskiej,
Nie rozczarowuje natomiast batalistyka, Od Alaski do inwazji na Chiny minęło ok,lat i faktycznie czuć zmianę technologii, sposobu prowadzenia wojny, "Invasion: China" jedną nogą jest już w space operach ze zrzutami orbitalnymi, komandosami w pancerzach wspomaganych, pojazdami kosmicznymi czy bronią orbitalną, I choćby dla opisu walk w Mandżurii, ataku nuklearnego w Teksasie czy opisu bitwy morskiej u wybrzeży Australii warto tę książkę przeczytać, Oczywiście o ile kręcą cię militarne technothrillery, Great end to the series,/I would've loved to read ath one in this series, At least nothing was left unanswered, Definitely the best one of the series, army Assaults amp Heppner
I have read Heppner 's books before and thoroughly enjoy them, even when they come in sequence each book will stand very well on it's own,
So I will admit going strait to numberit's a real page Turner ,and I will now read the othersand enjoy them as much as.
I have this one no doubt, . The last volume tied it together
Finished with this series, One of the best alternative series I've ever read, I was happy with the ending after investing so much time into the volumes I would hate to have had a bad last volume, This is the fifth and final book in the Invasion America series, It's a shame that the ride had to come to an end, but that is the fate of all good things,
Throughout the series I loved all of the main characters from both sides of the conflict, The personalities of the characters drove their actions in the conflict making for an exciting story,
Although the story is toldyears in the future, it is what I believe to be a very accurate view of futuristic warfare,
I highly recommend this series, it's a lot of fun from start to finish, I tend to go overboard reading all the books in a series In one big gulp, . sometimes it works, this time it did, This is the last in the series, I'm sure it could be a stand alone but you would miss a lot,
There is a lot of detail,regarding weapons and planes and ships and subs, etc etc, . for those of us who are really really interested but I have to admit I sort of skim over most of it but I do like the jet packs!
A big thank you to Vaughn for tying everything up in a neat package at the end.
. . so many authors just kind of stop without thinking of the readers or maybe they think they MIGHT write another book,
Whatever the reason I thoroughly enjoyed this series, . OK maybe far fetched but entertaining,
I almost forgot to mention all this takes place inand beyond, . ice age coming famine in the world and crazy politicians!
Enjoy!! Great book!!!
Amazing reading!!! Kept reading all the time, Wanting to keep the story going! Hoping to get more books like this one, This book ends the series like a wet fart after a long futile push,
The clichés, the blatant typos
Pagebreach not beach
Pagesuite not sweet This series is wonderful and Invasion China was a wonderful way to round out the series.
I also appreciated the fact that there was some resolution, The series is incredibly violent and paints a fairly despairing vision of the future a vision that is not hard to believe as I read a story about a school board wanting to rewrite history checks to ignore protests and civil rights struggles.
A disturbingly realistic vision of war several decades into the future, Invasion: China is as ambitious as it is powerful, Using advanced technologies in military science, the world's superpowers battle on land, sea, air and space for global supremacy, This controversial tale will keep you sleepless at night as America challenges the new colossus in the East: Greater China and her PanAsian allies, Hardhitting. Vast in scope. And all too possibly real,
Continually freezing weather has devastated the Earth's food supply, making US soil the most valuable in the world, A shattered, debtridden America suffered invasion by half the world and faced tactical nuclear weapons in her heartland, Now she wants revenge.
In the end, nucleartipped torpedoes, deadly laser systems and rail guns cannot replace the grunts on the battlefield, Asian snows turn red with blood as the fate of the world hangs in the balancethis is the thundering geopolitical technothriller, Invasion: China, Invasion China is the concluding instalment in Vaughn Heppners Invasion series, As a book, in its own right, I found it probably the most disappointing of thein the series, The action was still as good as ever with the battle scenes and description of the advanced technology was extremely well done, What let this book down for me was the amount of the story that was told via history books which did enable the author to move the time line of story on in large jumps, but for me this slowed down the pace of the novel.
This novel features the USs fight back against the Chinese as forge new alliances, The novel starts with a US pushing back the Chinese from the north of the country as a consequence the Chinese launch a massive nuclear strike which alarms many of its current alliance partners and paves the way for the US to reforge alliances with some of their former allies.
US forces stage apronged attack on Australia in an attempt to liberate it from Chinese occupation and to have as its disposal the food growing areas of Australia.
They team up with Russian to invade China itself after first reclaiming Siberia, Will the US be able to final defeat the Chinese or will their superior numbers finally take their toll on their opponents,
Series as a whole
At the end of the series it only seems right to put in a few comments about the series as whole.
I have thoroughly enjoyed the series from beginning to end, The underlying plot of massive global climate change causing food shortages that inevitably lead to armed conflict over those few prime food production areas that remain, is all to believable given the state of the world in.
I thought the use of more scifi based weaponry lasers, particle beam weapons, marines parachuting from space etc, enhanced the story as it was able to prevent the novels simply being a series of set piece battles, As each side develops new technology it become imperative that the other develop counter measures /strategies, The character development throughout the series was excellent and as a reader you got drawn into the story cheering for some and hating others, It also shows how the psychology of leaders as they struggle with the pressure of the war and how inevitably this seems to lead to either illness or an everincreasing paranoia and tendency to lead to a more dictatorial leadership style.
I am certainly looking forward to starting another series by Heppner in the near future, Finished the fighting, had to take a moment to come back to reality, still wanted to check the local news to make sure the invasion hadn't really happened.
This was a little more graphic and the torture/rape mentions in some sections was a bit much for me, but overall I enjoyed the total series and this final book didn't disappoint.
I appreciated the recap regarding what became of everyone in the years after the last page of "history" was recorded, I'd recommend for people who enjoy historical battles, details of weapons and like to imagine, "what if", This serie has really improved with every book and what started as low quality indie book has become very good near future militaty scifi, A great series
A great series
Read the whole series from the beginning, I couldn't wait for the next book, Sadly this is the last book in the series, Set in the nottoodistant future, Invasion: China wraps up this five book series by Vaughn Heppner, The Earth has experienced a cooling off of its climate, rendering many growing areas for food inhospitable, The United States still has the best farmland on Earth, making it a target of every other nation on the planet, A series of bad political moves has rendered the country nearly bankrupt, though, They have been attacked by China in an alliance with Mexico and other South American countries, and then by Germany once they laid claim to “free” Quebec.
Each of the books took place in the United States as they
tried to hold back their enemies on the battlefield, Its no spoiler to say this one brings the battle over to China, since its the title, Many of the individual characters weve followed all through the series are still around and fighting,
Vaughn Heppner does a great job detailing the technical aspects of the weaponry being used, Although a lot of it went over my head, I was able to get a general idea of what the various weapons were supposed to accomplish, The political intrigue is good, too, both in China as they attempt to try to end this on the best note they can, and in the U.
S. where an attempted coup challenges the leadership and puts the entire world in peril,
To read my full review, please go to: sitelink co You can visit Vaughn at sitelink www, vaughnheppner. comI was born in Canada and remember as a small boy crawling in my snow fort, I closed my eyes, and when I tried to open them, they were frozen shut, I didnt panic, but wiped away the ice crystals, unglued my eyes and kept on building my tunnel, Those were great days! I moved to Central California before seventh grade and couldnt believe I lived in a land where oranges grew on trees and you could pick grapes from the vine.
I used to wonder what I wanted to do with my life, what kind of work specifically, I was miserable not knowing and bordering on desperate, Then one day a friend gave me his typewriter, I began working on a novel, A different person told me it was much easier on a computer, so I b You can visit Vaughn at sitelink www, vaughnheppner. comI was born in Canada and remember as a small boy crawling in my snow fort, I closed my eyes, and when I tried to open them, they were frozen shut, I didn't panic, but wiped away the ice crystals, unglued my eyes and kept on building my tunnel, Those were great days! I moved to Central California before seventh grade and couldn't believe I lived in a land where oranges grew on trees and you could pick grapes from the vine.
I used to wonder what I wanted to do with my life, what kind of work specifically, I was miserable not knowing and bordering on desperate, Then one day a friend gave me his typewriter, I began working on a novel, A different person told me it was much easier on a computer, so I bought one and began getting up at:A, M. each morning before work, writing for three hours, My eyes were unglued once again as the pang of misery left my gut, I knew exactly what I wanted to do: write, So now that's what I do, I write, and write, and write, and I love it, sitelink.