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Title: New Frontiers
Title: New Frontiers
Series:
Expansion Wars #1
Author:
Joshua Dalzelle
Rating:
3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre:
SFF
Pages:
274
Format:
Digital Edition
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Synopsis: |
Humanity has survived the Phage. Unfortunately, the old Confederation breaks apart due to various members involvement in attracting the Phage. At the same time that humanity is fracturing apart, 2 new alien species suddenly appear. One wants to be a partner with humanity. The other was in thrall to the Phage and worshipped it. So they want to destroy the creatures that killed their god.
Celesta Wright, Jackson Wolfe's
protege, has been sent out to explore and then in a joint military
venture with the allied aliens against the genocidal ones. Problem
is, it turns out the two alien races are in league and it is a vast
trap to destroy humanity's space fleet capability so that we can be
gobbled up at leisure.
Bucking command and taking risks,
Wright saves the fleet and on her return finds that Jackson Wolfe has
been reinstated in the military, against his wishes. Politicians are
playing their games even while humanity is once again facing
extinction.
Where's a good Theocracy when you need
it?
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My Thoughts:
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This was a worthy successor to the Black Fleet trilogy.
Unfortunately,
I didn't enjoy it quite as much. There were several instances of
people just doing stupid things. It wasn't just the politicians
either.
The
space action reminded me a lot of the space battles in Jack
Campbell's Lost Fleet series.
Sometimes I miss the zam zoom space lasers of Star Wars'esque
battles. “Physics” is only SO enjoyable.
Since
this is going to be a trilogy and not an unending series, Dalzelle
had better get the story in gear and move things right along. This
book felt like setup for another set of hostile aliens to fight
humanity. Better be good.
★★★☆ ½
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