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Title: Into the Breach
Series:
Empire Rising #15
Author: David Holmes
Rating:
3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: SF
Pages:
396
Words: 151K
Publish: 2022
The adventures continue. I am at book 15 in the series and the characterization remains exactly the same as the first book. But unlike that Helldiver’s “Lost Years”, it doesn’t bother me. I don’t know why and I’m not going to dig too deep lest I disturb something that is better left buried, like the Balrog in the Mines of Moria.
Humanity has its back to the wall, again (for about the 6th or 7th time) and yet no one is giving up or despairing. They are determined to fight to the bitter end and no one is off in the corner whining or feeling angsty about it. They don’t have time. I LIKE that kind of attitude in the characters I am reading about.
I think that might be the secret ingredient. Hope. Not necessarily grit and determination on its own, but the Hope that drives it. I’m a sucker for Hope, even in stories about humans fight giant alien wolf spiders ;-)
★★★✬☆
From
the Publisher
Once again, the Flex-aor have rained down nuclear
holocaust on Humanity. Led by their escaped High Queen Ala’ron,
their fleet poses a deadly threat to every Human colony. Lacking the
ships to defend all their borders, the Imperial Fleet has no choice
but to hunt down Ala’ron as quickly as possible. Tasked with this
mission, Emilie and Georgia will find Ala’ron to be far more
cunning than they realise.
Yet the High Queen is but the beginning of the problems coming Humanity’s way. Sent on what is supposed to be a safe exploration mission, Jonathan and Achilles will soon discover there are greater forces than even the Flex-aor arrayed against Humanity. Mysterious new adversaries with a wealth of intelligence on the Imperial Navy threaten the Empire right at the moment the Karacknid Civil War appears to be coming to an end.
Surrounded by enemies on three fronts, the Imperial Fleet and its commanders will be stretched to their breaking point and beyond. Only by charging into the breach and facing their enemy’s most powerful forces can there be any hope of winning out. Yet attempting such a decisive move will incur a cost in ships and blood the Empire cannot afford.
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