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The Forgotten Empire #7
The Forgotten Empire: The Path to Victory: Book 7
Can the Humans defeat the evil races of the Confederation? The once seven great races of the Confederation have now fell to three. Will it continue to fracture?
Far from Earth and the Human Empire, the Human fleets continue to fight against an enemy that vows to destroy them. The Confederation continues to fracture, and the Humans add more alien races to their growing list of allies. Will the Morag discover the plot to destroy their home planet of Morag Prime?
Earth Admiral Collison and his fleets continue to destroy targets in the Confederation. The Morag has many surprises awaiting the Human fleet. Will the Humans prevail?
Can the Morag come up with a plan to defeat the Humans? Morag Councilor Addonis ventures to Falton Two to meet the emperor to seek his help.
The Earth fleet leaves the Solar System to head to the Human Empire. Is it enough ships to destroy the enemy?
Far from Earth and the Human Empire, the Human fleets continue to fight against an enemy that vows to destroy them. The Confederation continues to fracture, and the Humans add more alien races to their growing list of allies. Will the Morag discover the plot to destroy their home planet of Morag Prime?
Earth Admiral Collison and his fleets continue to destroy targets in the Confederation. The Morag has many surprises awaiting the Human fleet. Will the Humans prevail?
Can the Morag come up with a plan to defeat the Humans? Morag Councilor Addonis ventures to Falton Two to meet the emperor to seek his help.
The Earth fleet leaves the Solar System to head to the Human Empire. Is it enough ships to destroy the enemy?
386 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 17, 2022
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June 23, 2022
This book continues the raids on the ‘Morag’ Empire, which were interesting for a while, but it did become a bit repetitive, especially as every fight seem to end in the same way with thousands of more deaths.
It also emphasised one of the issues I have had with these books ever since the humans went on the offensive. The casualty rates are just ridiculous and unsustainable, even if it is possible to replace and even add to the fleets, they can't have an inexhaustible supply of trained crew.
However this is still a decent space opera that I will keep reading.
It also emphasised one of the issues I have had with these books ever since the humans went on the offensive. The casualty rates are just ridiculous and unsustainable, even if it is possible to replace and even add to the fleets, they can't have an inexhaustible supply of trained crew.
However this is still a decent space opera that I will keep reading.
July 29, 2022
great but
This has been a very entertaining set of novels but by now it is becoming very repetitious. The storyline seems to be the same space battle after space battle planet after planet in there all alike. I love the characters and the drama between all of them i will keep reading but because of the repetition and redundancy it is causing meeting speed breed
This has been a very entertaining set of novels but by now it is becoming very repetitious. The storyline seems to be the same space battle after space battle planet after planet in there all alike. I love the characters and the drama between all of them i will keep reading but because of the repetition and redundancy it is causing meeting speed breed
November 15, 2022
Review of book 7 AND 8:
Sadly this series did not end well. I say end because book eight concludes the story arc that we have been following in these eight books. It is unclear to me if there will be further books starting a new story arc hinted at in book eight. The first book in this series was indeed a five star book for me and the series has continued strong with mostly four star books. However, these last two books was somewhat disappointing. Unfortunately the reason for this is even more sad.
The series was started by Raymond Weil. I have read a great many books from this author and generally liked them a lot. When I read these two books I started to wonder if the author had gotten tired of the series but when I read the afterword I realized that Raymond Weil has, sadly, passed away and it is now his daughter Julie Thomas Weil that have continued the series.
I am of course sure that she is doing her best to continue her fathers legacy but, unfortunately, she is clearly not as experienced as her father in story creation.
Book number seven is really one long dragged out prelude to book eight. It is just one engagement after another without any real story telling in between. I do want lots of fleet action in my books but in this book it became repetitive to say the least.
Book eight continues this trend although there is a bit more variety to the story and some real build up to the final showdown with the Morags which, unfortunately, became just “okayish” really.
Then in the last chapter the author pulls a “plot twist” a’la Hollywood TV-show script writer (and that is not a good thing) and basically just throws in a new surprise enemy to replace the Morags and simply resets some things. Rinse and repeat.
I do not know if there are any real plans to continue this series (the author claims so) but I think she should work on story creation with some other story of her own first. I’m not saying that I will not pick up another book in the series, I would really like Julie to become as good as her father and will thus support her efforts, but these two books were a wee bit disappointing.
Sadly this series did not end well. I say end because book eight concludes the story arc that we have been following in these eight books. It is unclear to me if there will be further books starting a new story arc hinted at in book eight. The first book in this series was indeed a five star book for me and the series has continued strong with mostly four star books. However, these last two books was somewhat disappointing. Unfortunately the reason for this is even more sad.
The series was started by Raymond Weil. I have read a great many books from this author and generally liked them a lot. When I read these two books I started to wonder if the author had gotten tired of the series but when I read the afterword I realized that Raymond Weil has, sadly, passed away and it is now his daughter Julie Thomas Weil that have continued the series.
I am of course sure that she is doing her best to continue her fathers legacy but, unfortunately, she is clearly not as experienced as her father in story creation.
Book number seven is really one long dragged out prelude to book eight. It is just one engagement after another without any real story telling in between. I do want lots of fleet action in my books but in this book it became repetitive to say the least.
Book eight continues this trend although there is a bit more variety to the story and some real build up to the final showdown with the Morags which, unfortunately, became just “okayish” really.
Then in the last chapter the author pulls a “plot twist” a’la Hollywood TV-show script writer (and that is not a good thing) and basically just throws in a new surprise enemy to replace the Morags and simply resets some things. Rinse and repeat.
I do not know if there are any real plans to continue this series (the author claims so) but I think she should work on story creation with some other story of her own first. I’m not saying that I will not pick up another book in the series, I would really like Julie to become as good as her father and will thus support her efforts, but these two books were a wee bit disappointing.
September 10, 2022
Needs work
Great plot. But lacks character development. Very superficial and repetitive. Battles are summarized with little in depth details. Battles repeat multiple times with same outcome.
Great plot. But lacks character development. Very superficial and repetitive. Battles are summarized with little in depth details. Battles repeat multiple times with same outcome.
July 26, 2022
This book is kind of a filler prior to reaching the end of the series. As you'll recall, the Human Empire is slowly gaining an edge on the Confederation which apparently has been ran by the Morag for many, many centuries. They once co-existed until the Morag and its allies decided that wasn't what they wanted, so they attacked and defeated the humans in what was the Human Empire. Fortunately, part of the royal family was able to flee to the Solar System far away from the Human Empire or the Confederation. Here they stayed, some going into stasis until such time as they could revel themselves to the humans of Earth and the Solar System.
That time came and the Earth humans began to help the humans from the former Human Empire to attempt to regain their original capital world of Golan Four. High Princess Layla Starguard now has sufficient forces to protect her new Human Empire and allow the humans of the Solar System to build massive fleets for further use by both groups of humans. The humans also reveled to all the Confederation members that the Morag have been telepathically controlling the races for vast centuries getting them to do what the Morag wanted. Some of these races found out that they weren't originally war-like as the Morag have made them, and they wish to return to their original culture. So, the Confederation has fractured with the invent of new telepathy blocking helmets that various races now employ when around the Morag. That obviously has not made the Morag happy. Where they ruled absolutely, they now rule only a small portion of the Confederation, but even that is considerably larger than the current new Human Empire.
Still, the Human Empire has been striking at primarily the Morag attempting to reduce the new of warfighting starships they have. A fleet led by Admiral Collison has been systematically attacking Morag star systems destroying shipyards, military facilities and now even planets of the Morag. The Morag have not had a lot of success fighting against these hit and run tactics and they are becoming very annoying. The fact that they have to stay in Confederation territory to defend Morag systems is something they have not done in centuries and it is aggravating them to no end. They begin setting up some traps for Admiral Collison fleet hoping to pin them down so a larger Morag fleet can destroy these pesky humans once and for all.
Yet, the humans aren't just relying on these hit and run attacks. They are secretly getting ready to do something no one in their right minds would have thought possible. The humans of the Solar System have been very industrious and haven't had to fight the Morag directly for a long time. This has given them time to build more starships, lots more. They now need to get these to the Human Empire.
As I said, this book is a filler because it's mostly about the actions of Admiral Collison and his fleet. He has three subordinate Admirals with him and they each command flotillas that can either attack Morag assets on their own or in pairs when necessary. So, they go about inflicting a lot of damage on a lot of Morag systems. This book tells about those attacks, but they all are done almost in the same exact way. Once they settle on a tactic that seems to work, the humans don't change so there's a lot of repetitiveness in this story. It's not badly written, but it's the same for a long time.
What this book is leading to is the final battle with the Morag. How and when that happens might be in the next book, "The fall of the Confederation", Book 8 in the Forgotten Empire Series. While it's not available on Amazon for even pre-order, it does say in this book that it will be available in September 2022. I'll be looking for it.
That time came and the Earth humans began to help the humans from the former Human Empire to attempt to regain their original capital world of Golan Four. High Princess Layla Starguard now has sufficient forces to protect her new Human Empire and allow the humans of the Solar System to build massive fleets for further use by both groups of humans. The humans also reveled to all the Confederation members that the Morag have been telepathically controlling the races for vast centuries getting them to do what the Morag wanted. Some of these races found out that they weren't originally war-like as the Morag have made them, and they wish to return to their original culture. So, the Confederation has fractured with the invent of new telepathy blocking helmets that various races now employ when around the Morag. That obviously has not made the Morag happy. Where they ruled absolutely, they now rule only a small portion of the Confederation, but even that is considerably larger than the current new Human Empire.
Still, the Human Empire has been striking at primarily the Morag attempting to reduce the new of warfighting starships they have. A fleet led by Admiral Collison has been systematically attacking Morag star systems destroying shipyards, military facilities and now even planets of the Morag. The Morag have not had a lot of success fighting against these hit and run tactics and they are becoming very annoying. The fact that they have to stay in Confederation territory to defend Morag systems is something they have not done in centuries and it is aggravating them to no end. They begin setting up some traps for Admiral Collison fleet hoping to pin them down so a larger Morag fleet can destroy these pesky humans once and for all.
Yet, the humans aren't just relying on these hit and run attacks. They are secretly getting ready to do something no one in their right minds would have thought possible. The humans of the Solar System have been very industrious and haven't had to fight the Morag directly for a long time. This has given them time to build more starships, lots more. They now need to get these to the Human Empire.
As I said, this book is a filler because it's mostly about the actions of Admiral Collison and his fleet. He has three subordinate Admirals with him and they each command flotillas that can either attack Morag assets on their own or in pairs when necessary. So, they go about inflicting a lot of damage on a lot of Morag systems. This book tells about those attacks, but they all are done almost in the same exact way. Once they settle on a tactic that seems to work, the humans don't change so there's a lot of repetitiveness in this story. It's not badly written, but it's the same for a long time.
What this book is leading to is the final battle with the Morag. How and when that happens might be in the next book, "The fall of the Confederation", Book 8 in the Forgotten Empire Series. While it's not available on Amazon for even pre-order, it does say in this book that it will be available in September 2022. I'll be looking for it.
April 11, 2026
This book is a bit repetitive, I guess it’s supposed to show the progress of the empire and how the Morag begin to figure out Empire weaknesses. I’ve never understood how the development of far superior weapons result in such mediocre improvements in battle. I get it in previous encounters where the enemy vastly outnumbered the empire ships, but in this book where the empire choose lower number opposition I don’t see how they keep losing so many of their own ships.
Whilst reading I found I could often think of simple strategies to overcome their predicament, but seemingly their experienced admirals and captains couldn’t.
That’s the negatives but, that said, I enjoy the series and this book has some good battles and introduces some important plot developments.
Whilst reading I found I could often think of simple strategies to overcome their predicament, but seemingly their experienced admirals and captains couldn’t.
That’s the negatives but, that said, I enjoy the series and this book has some good battles and introduces some important plot developments.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 11, 2022
way to go, Julie! Keep up the legacy
This latest installation in the Forgotten Empire is much appreciated. It continued the story with a good tempo and fidelity to the original author’s writing style and content. I could tell about mid way through that there would be a final book in this series, and that’s fine by me. I’m just glad that I don’t have to come up with the ending to this series in my own mind. Now I think that we get to coast into the final frontier of the Human/Confederation conflict and see all the important story lines come to a conclusion. Thank you, Julie, for bringing your father’s storyline to completion!
This latest installation in the Forgotten Empire is much appreciated. It continued the story with a good tempo and fidelity to the original author’s writing style and content. I could tell about mid way through that there would be a final book in this series, and that’s fine by me. I’m just glad that I don’t have to come up with the ending to this series in my own mind. Now I think that we get to coast into the final frontier of the Human/Confederation conflict and see all the important story lines come to a conclusion. Thank you, Julie, for bringing your father’s storyline to completion!
August 10, 2022
The story continues with lots of battles between the human empire and the Confederation bad guys. It gets a bit repetitive, however there is a new twist in the story that made me keep reading and skipping many pages of repetitive battles to see what is going to finally happen. I do want to give kudos to author for picking up the storyline from her late father. That could not have been easy to say the least. I am looking forward to the final book in this series. :-)
January 26, 2024
Get a proofreader
Too many repetitive attack narratives, which barely change except for the names of the planetary system. Amazing how many battles LT Garland survives unscathed while those she leads are blown away. Also clumsy sentence construction, many of which start with Also. We in could take a lesson from the Reverend MacLean - "half as long."
Too many repetitive attack narratives, which barely change except for the names of the planetary system. Amazing how many battles LT Garland survives unscathed while those she leads are blown away. Also clumsy sentence construction, many of which start with Also. We in could take a lesson from the Reverend MacLean - "half as long."
September 16, 2025
BATTLE ACTION IS REPETITIVE
This book is mostly more of the same, a Human fleet attacking targets in the Confederation but the battle description is repetitive and uses the same paragraphs over and over until it is Boeing to read. Need to read the next book to learn how the Morag reign ends
This book is mostly more of the same, a Human fleet attacking targets in the Confederation but the battle description is repetitive and uses the same paragraphs over and over until it is Boeing to read. Need to read the next book to learn how the Morag reign ends
July 9, 2022
Julie is doing an excellent job of continuing her father's stories
Excellent depiction of military space battles, the strategy of the opponents and the human cost of war. I love the world building that Raymond Weil created.
Excellent depiction of military space battles, the strategy of the opponents and the human cost of war. I love the world building that Raymond Weil created.
July 9, 2022
Excellent!
Julie continues to very successfully follow her father's footsteps by continuing this series to its conclusion. Excellent writing in following his original storyline. Am looking forward to the next book in this series, due to be published in September, 2022.
Julie continues to very successfully follow her father's footsteps by continuing this series to its conclusion. Excellent writing in following his original storyline. Am looking forward to the next book in this series, due to be published in September, 2022.
June 29, 2022
Space opera
Rather inconclusive. Not much accomplished.. Possible background set up for next book..well written but kind of leaves a lot of loose ends.
Rather inconclusive. Not much accomplished.. Possible background set up for next book..well written but kind of leaves a lot of loose ends.
July 15, 2022
I love this series
It’s great that Raymond’s story can be continued and at the high level that’s been shown by this latest addition. Great job and I hope it continues.
It’s great that Raymond’s story can be continued and at the high level that’s been shown by this latest addition. Great job and I hope it continues.
July 19, 2022
Another great book
One of the best series I have ever read. Great characters, lots of action. Can't wait till the next book comes out.
One of the best series I have ever read. Great characters, lots of action. Can't wait till the next book comes out.
August 1, 2022
Over all not bad, but at this point it is getting repetitive.
The characters are enjoyable. But this one seems like it mostly a rehashed version of book 6 with very little story line added.
The characters are enjoyable. But this one seems like it mostly a rehashed version of book 6 with very little story line added.
August 2, 2022
Great book
Another great book of this series. Cannot wait for the next book of this series to come out. Definitely taken over from her late father. Keep up the good work
Another great book of this series. Cannot wait for the next book of this series to come out. Definitely taken over from her late father. Keep up the good work
August 7, 2022
Good Book
Another installment in the series for you to enjoy. Good connections to the origin story. Keep up the good work
Another installment in the series for you to enjoy. Good connections to the origin story. Keep up the good work
September 16, 2022
Darn good read
I'm enjoying this series very much! Please keep them coming. The fight for freedom is real and must never end.
I'm enjoying this series very much! Please keep them coming. The fight for freedom is real and must never end.
September 19, 2022
Human space fantasy
Good mix of conflict and human angle,sometimes a little formulaic and slightly repetitive. Still holds your attention though with partial reveals.
Good mix of conflict and human angle,sometimes a little formulaic and slightly repetitive. Still holds your attention though with partial reveals.
October 15, 2022
The humans continue on their path to victory
Pretty exciting book Some new tactics were deployed which was good and all and all it's worth reading. Give it a try
Pretty exciting book Some new tactics were deployed which was good and all and all it's worth reading. Give it a try
December 13, 2022
repetitious and stilted
This book really dragged. The constant repetition of similar information and the blunt, emotionless story telling style left me craving the end.
This book really dragged. The constant repetition of similar information and the blunt, emotionless story telling style left me craving the end.
August 23, 2023
I appreciate her trying to finish her father's series, but just not that good after she took over. Only reading to get to the conclusion for the characters I used to like.
March 27, 2024
Great Space Battle!
The Forgotten Empire is a great story line! I'm very familiar with the main characters and Villains. The next installment I can't wait to read.
The Forgotten Empire is a great story line! I'm very familiar with the main characters and Villains. The next installment I can't wait to read.
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