Review of Behind Alien Lines by Wesley Britton

Review of Behind Alien Lines at Amazon.UK:


AL is book 8 of a series and quite complex for a collection of novellas/shorts. There are a lot of POVs and names to contend with, but this does provide for a more realistic wartime (I felt as if I were reading a band of brothers-esque world mashed with spies and sci-fi) and Mr Britton gives us an ‘important characters’ list at the start.

The overall multiverse concept is interesting and allows for many themes and questions on the validity of war. These stories all have a strong sense of what war does to soldiers, those subjugated by war and the people whose lands are torn apart. There are no outlandish heroes, just people finding hope amongst their own courage and the courage of their peers.

. . . Where the stories excel are in the exposition found in Mr Britton’s prose. The world-building is outstanding. Yes, there’s the obligatory info dump here and there, but the majority is excellent. He gives only what you need to realise this universe for the moments you are reading. I could happily sit with him or any of his characters over a round of pravine.


--Leighton Dean

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