The Way of Spider (Spider #2) 3Stars

 

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Title: The Way of Spider
Series: Spider #2
Author: William Gear
Rating: 3 of 5 Stars
Genre: SF
Pages: 395
Words: 151K

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The Warriors of Spider ally with the Directorate to invade a rebelling planet. They murder and rape their way across it and subdue it. The mastermind of the rebellion flees with technological secrets at his finger tips.

Yeah, I read this. Wasn’t overly impressed. The Romanans are unbridled rapists and murderers and that doesn’t go down well with me at all. While their brutal savagery is what wins the war, they are not good guys by any stretch of the imagination. Not how I wanted to start this month’s reading.

And I am not looking forward to the final book at all now :-(

Plus, this cover is a horrible resolution. It’s this bad even on the author’s website. Not cool.

★★★☆☆

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From the Publisher

Rebellion on Sirius threatened to become the spark that would set the galaxy ablaze, bringing on the destruction of the Directorate-run empire—a tyranny powered by an elite corps of human, computer-linked brains. The Directorate’s only hope of overthrowing the Sirian rebels rested with three of its once-mighty but now battle-damaged Patrol ships, three backup warships, and a rate of primitive, long planet-bound warriors—the Romanans.

For the Directorate had spent many centuries breeding initiative and the capability for violent action out of the human race. And only on the lost colony of World did true warriors of spider still exist. But would the Romanans willingly join the cause of the star men who had once attempted to destroy their world? And even if they did, could warriors so newly exposed to the weapons of deadly technology defeat a world and a leader ready to utilize legendary tools of destruction more lethal than any humankind had ever known?