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It was cool to see the Humans and Thranx working together and even fighting together. It was also interesting to see how sting ships came to be, and the first pairing of humans and Thranx in a millitary situation.

I gotta say though, I felt a little bit less than satisfied with the end of this book. I felt that certain parts, especially towards the end, were a bit too summarized and could have been fleshed out a little more. Also, a totally different problem I had with the book was that the complete annihilation of the Pitarian race at the end left me a bit sad rather than satisfied that justice was done. The Pitar seemed a bit 2-dimensional: NONE of them surrendered? ALL of them chose to fight to the bitter end and die? Not a single Pitar felt any sort of remorse? To make the story more believable, more realistic, Foster should have made the Pitar more varied, more diverse, with good Pitar and bad Pitar and so on. It would have made the plot more interesting, more complex. As it was, the plot was rather one-dimensional.

And what about baby Pitar? I know there supposedly were not many Pitar children, but there must have been some. Weren't any of them spared? At least the ones too young to fight back or know what was going on? There should have been some Pitar survivors of the war.

The utter annihilation of an entire race is always a tragic thing. In that sense the ending left me less than satisfied.

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