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Land & Sea #7
Cyclones of Chaos
The mysterious underwater aliens dubbed the Fish, continue their brutal war with humanity around the globe. ASHUR’s and Tridents; powerful armored Mecha suits, are holding the line, but the war escalates to new levels of carnage as the aliens are determined to press inland.
Adam Cain and Natalia Falto are back in the war, exploring new weapons and tactics to tip the scales into mankind’s advantage. Manhattan is a devastated warzone that a grizzled NYPD detective still fights to protect. A gifted ASHUR pilot’s luck runs out in the most heinous way imaginable while a Ukrainian war survivor takes the war to the alien’s doorstep.
Humankind struggles to grapple with the complexities of a new war. Old national rivalries still give the aliens the upper hand. Warriors like Colonel Ashton Slade learn that the aliens are nothing compared with the evil that fellow men possess. As the war rages around all of them, they learn that the hardest course to plot is through a cyclone of chaos.
This novel is the first of the second season trilogy, advancing the war and the storyline into the second year of the ultimate conflict for control of the Earth.
Adam Cain and Natalia Falto are back in the war, exploring new weapons and tactics to tip the scales into mankind’s advantage. Manhattan is a devastated warzone that a grizzled NYPD detective still fights to protect. A gifted ASHUR pilot’s luck runs out in the most heinous way imaginable while a Ukrainian war survivor takes the war to the alien’s doorstep.
Humankind struggles to grapple with the complexities of a new war. Old national rivalries still give the aliens the upper hand. Warriors like Colonel Ashton Slade learn that the aliens are nothing compared with the evil that fellow men possess. As the war rages around all of them, they learn that the hardest course to plot is through a cyclone of chaos.
This novel is the first of the second season trilogy, advancing the war and the storyline into the second year of the ultimate conflict for control of the Earth.
- GenresScience Fiction
393 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 17, 2024
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October 17, 2024
Let me preface this with saying that the "Land & Sea" is one of my favourites since it released. However, a series can be taken off track by the author. It felt as if someone else wrote this book.
The story doesn't flow, it's quite disjointed jumping from one unlikeable character to another. Willow & Georgia are just such cringey characters. I just skipped through those pages. Especially the internal thoughts written in italics at the end of their chapters. My eyes rolled so much. This many books in and still, new characters are included - which the author tries really hard to force the reader to like.
There's unnecessary drama, from Washington politics, to international espionage, then the obligatory 'Fish having new weapons to kill humans with'. It's tiresome after a while.
Around 30% of the way in we get a snippet of Keller, defending Rome. The whole grandiose nonsense about the Vatican & Rome. Yeah right. One would think an author would actually research who the Vatican & Papacy truly represents. They do not represent the true Father, nor do they speak on behalf of those who believe in the Bible (the true people are not Christians, ie the religion of Babylon, which is Rome).
Then we get the author's whole 'Russia bad, China bad, America always good, Ukraine very good very innocent' stories. Yawn. Propaganda gets tiresome after all. Yeah man, we get it, you're a full-blooded American patriot and in your eyes the US does nothing wrong and never medels in other countries. Oh yes, I forgot, if the Americans don't save the world, nobody will.
I feel the author tries far too hard to make the female characters out to be such badder than bad asses. Of course Georgia is at the weapons station in Thor when, of course, enemies just happen to be there at that exact time (yet were never even glimpsed in the one year of the war). Of course, being such a bad ass, she took them out. Of course, when Thor is damaged, she is the only one who doesn't lose consciousness. Of course she has "lightning efficiency", & the line that got me to roll my eyes the most - "As she spoke those words, she realised just how determined she was to get through their situation alive." Wow, you don't say. Would she otherwise not have been determined to get out alive?
We also have the bad ass ASHUR pilot, Lt Cordova. A supposed 'lucky charm' that always seems to get her comrades killed. When faced with disciplinary action, she refuses to admit she didn't follow what was established protocol, instead opting to do what she felt was right, not expecting enemies around (since being an ASHUR pilot means she can do as damn well as she pleases, consequences be damned). Which of course, means she continues on her idiotic self-inflection where she convinces herself she's in the right. It's never her fault. She's a perennial victim. Then, I assume, to add some emotional, human side to her, we see her being emotional with her family for 15 seconds before deciding she should go back and train. Seriously.
We then have the political nonsense in a time of actual world ending war. Wilson, in charge of the ETF, & his scientists couldn't even posit a guess as to what was happening in retaliation - which honestly, even I figured might be something to do with a tsunami, considering how those are sometimes formed, and what the enemy was doing under the sea.
The author somehow became pathetic at writing good characters. This was a waste of time novel.
The story doesn't flow, it's quite disjointed jumping from one unlikeable character to another. Willow & Georgia are just such cringey characters. I just skipped through those pages. Especially the internal thoughts written in italics at the end of their chapters. My eyes rolled so much. This many books in and still, new characters are included - which the author tries really hard to force the reader to like.
There's unnecessary drama, from Washington politics, to international espionage, then the obligatory 'Fish having new weapons to kill humans with'. It's tiresome after a while.
Around 30% of the way in we get a snippet of Keller, defending Rome. The whole grandiose nonsense about the Vatican & Rome. Yeah right. One would think an author would actually research who the Vatican & Papacy truly represents. They do not represent the true Father, nor do they speak on behalf of those who believe in the Bible (the true people are not Christians, ie the religion of Babylon, which is Rome).
Then we get the author's whole 'Russia bad, China bad, America always good, Ukraine very good very innocent' stories. Yawn. Propaganda gets tiresome after all. Yeah man, we get it, you're a full-blooded American patriot and in your eyes the US does nothing wrong and never medels in other countries. Oh yes, I forgot, if the Americans don't save the world, nobody will.
I feel the author tries far too hard to make the female characters out to be such badder than bad asses. Of course Georgia is at the weapons station in Thor when, of course, enemies just happen to be there at that exact time (yet were never even glimpsed in the one year of the war). Of course, being such a bad ass, she took them out. Of course, when Thor is damaged, she is the only one who doesn't lose consciousness. Of course she has "lightning efficiency", & the line that got me to roll my eyes the most - "As she spoke those words, she realised just how determined she was to get through their situation alive." Wow, you don't say. Would she otherwise not have been determined to get out alive?
We also have the bad ass ASHUR pilot, Lt Cordova. A supposed 'lucky charm' that always seems to get her comrades killed. When faced with disciplinary action, she refuses to admit she didn't follow what was established protocol, instead opting to do what she felt was right, not expecting enemies around (since being an ASHUR pilot means she can do as damn well as she pleases, consequences be damned). Which of course, means she continues on her idiotic self-inflection where she convinces herself she's in the right. It's never her fault. She's a perennial victim. Then, I assume, to add some emotional, human side to her, we see her being emotional with her family for 15 seconds before deciding she should go back and train. Seriously.
We then have the political nonsense in a time of actual world ending war. Wilson, in charge of the ETF, & his scientists couldn't even posit a guess as to what was happening in retaliation - which honestly, even I figured might be something to do with a tsunami, considering how those are sometimes formed, and what the enemy was doing under the sea.
The author somehow became pathetic at writing good characters. This was a waste of time novel.
September 5, 2024
Disappointed, slow with little action
I don’t mind a book with different character views but my word this had a ton! It was really a struggle to get half way before it got interesting. And there was only some progress on each character. I don’t care about the tech who is forced to be a spy, a dirty cop and some of the others. Boring until the end with action that ends rather suddenly and seemingly too easily. That finally the big event happens … and then the book ends when it’s getting good. I was disappointed compared to the other books. And you really missed out not having more catholic Roman knights fighting the fish. That was so anticlimactic. Such a waste of potential.
I don’t mind a book with different character views but my word this had a ton! It was really a struggle to get half way before it got interesting. And there was only some progress on each character. I don’t care about the tech who is forced to be a spy, a dirty cop and some of the others. Boring until the end with action that ends rather suddenly and seemingly too easily. That finally the big event happens … and then the book ends when it’s getting good. I was disappointed compared to the other books. And you really missed out not having more catholic Roman knights fighting the fish. That was so anticlimactic. Such a waste of potential.
August 24, 2024
A rollercoaster ride from start to finish as the action picks up from the previous book. New wrinkles in the status quo for our returning characters and new characters with new intrigues and the action doesn't let up.
Its all I can say without going into spoilers, if you enjoy the Land&Sea series, this is a can't miss book.
Its all I can say without going into spoilers, if you enjoy the Land&Sea series, this is a can't miss book.
October 6, 2024
2012 alien mod
2 days I went threw binge reading this series an what way to end reading this series for the first time. If you thought the scenes from the movie 2012 or the space moment from COD: Ghost where good this novel takes thouse moments and spread it out for everyone hahaha.
2 days I went threw binge reading this series an what way to end reading this series for the first time. If you thought the scenes from the movie 2012 or the space moment from COD: Ghost where good this novel takes thouse moments and spread it out for everyone hahaha.
August 28, 2024
Great reading
I love where this series is going ! Can't wait for the next book . Hopefully it comes out soon .
I love where this series is going ! Can't wait for the next book . Hopefully it comes out soon .
November 17, 2024
Another great read.
Another great addition to the series. And seeing my last name in it.... Cannot wait to see what happens next! Looking forward to it!!
Another great addition to the series. And seeing my last name in it.... Cannot wait to see what happens next! Looking forward to it!!
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