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The pieces have finally fallen into place for the Earth Defense Force. Multiple cultures have come together to form an alliance against the invading Veldon. As they gather to formulate a plan to bring peace to the universe, an insidious inside faction attempts to destroy all they’ve built.
Meanwhile, Commander Gareth Weston leads his team on a recon mission behind Veldon lines with no idea of what to expect. Patrick Worthing pursues the rogue JTF operative responsible for torturing countless prisoners while the ambassadorial detail of Alfred Chance jump through hoops to bring the Raldor into the alliance.
Each of these missions hold their own dangers which may cause not only the deaths of the operatives but the fragile peace between the benevolent cultures.
Meanwhile, Commander Gareth Weston leads his team on a recon mission behind Veldon lines with no idea of what to expect. Patrick Worthing pursues the rogue JTF operative responsible for torturing countless prisoners while the ambassadorial detail of Alfred Chance jump through hoops to bring the Raldor into the alliance.
Each of these missions hold their own dangers which may cause not only the deaths of the operatives but the fragile peace between the benevolent cultures.
244 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 9, 2022
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March 10, 2023
What happened?
I don't think anything really happened. The squids are playing games, and might end up being the real enemy. The Pytheas is in the midst if a battle with Chelsea stranded with a bunch of Veldon. Patrick is off on a vendetta. Klaus and Cole have been captured. William and Marsha are faced with an insurrection. the Kitha are doing nothing. The Patton is floating powerless in the middle if a battle. There are so many trains and stage coaches going over cliffs its hard to keep track of them as we again have to come back for next week's Saturday matinee in this continuing saga. It's a good thing I don't have two wait for next Saturday. If I couldn't binge these episode, I'd probably quit by now. How many more episode are there?
I don't think anything really happened. The squids are playing games, and might end up being the real enemy. The Pytheas is in the midst if a battle with Chelsea stranded with a bunch of Veldon. Patrick is off on a vendetta. Klaus and Cole have been captured. William and Marsha are faced with an insurrection. the Kitha are doing nothing. The Patton is floating powerless in the middle if a battle. There are so many trains and stage coaches going over cliffs its hard to keep track of them as we again have to come back for next week's Saturday matinee in this continuing saga. It's a good thing I don't have two wait for next Saturday. If I couldn't binge these episode, I'd probably quit by now. How many more episode are there?
October 26, 2022
I can't wait for 5 November 2022 for the last book Unraveled to be available. Then I will be finished with this mess of a series. No need for the gay characters, no need for the long drawn out dead spaces. Just plain too many words with zero meaning. Could be condensed into a 3 book series, maybe 4 but 8 way to long. The storyline isn't that great.
November 5, 2022
Done with this series
Whenever an author tries to hard to be "inclusive" it's usually the story that suffers. This story does not need homosexuality to enrich the plot. It does need better editing, less jumping from one sub-story to the next and, perhaps, a little more science and a lot less of characters hung up on the morality of killing their enemies.
Whenever an author tries to hard to be "inclusive" it's usually the story that suffers. This story does not need homosexuality to enrich the plot. It does need better editing, less jumping from one sub-story to the next and, perhaps, a little more science and a lot less of characters hung up on the morality of killing their enemies.
October 14, 2022
Fed up with wokeness
On page 51, the author decided to have two of the main characters (women) fall for each other. I don’t read science fiction for this. I will no longer read this author’s books. A real shame.
On page 51, the author decided to have two of the main characters (women) fall for each other. I don’t read science fiction for this. I will no longer read this author’s books. A real shame.
January 7, 2023
This story had been all over the place with about three or four threads all managing to eventually come together. They're not there yet, but I can see how this might eventually end, if it ever does. We started this series with our supposedly main character, Gareth Weston, former EDF (Earth Defense Force) Commander, now retired. He was kind of set out to pasture in that his age was not going to allow him to do the things he had done in the past. Then the Veldon invaded Earth. That took everyone by surprise since the Earth had fought a long and terrible war with them not that long ago.
Still, the attack was unexpected and caught the EDF unable to defend the planet. It also appeared that the Veldon were looking for something or someone(s) on Earth since they sent troops down to specific locations. One of those locations was in the vicinity of Gareth Weston. Of course he was going to fight back which he did, but he was overwhelmed, and got shot up badly. He managed to stumble to a house occupied by Dr. Augustus Keppler. Dr. Keppler took in him and decided that to save his life he would use him to further his study of a new drug he was trying to perfect. This drug reversed most of the aging in humans converting them back to about their twenties physically but not mentally. The drug was actually a six-part treatment that had to have certain elements to do its work.
Well, it worked wonderfully on Gareth. He began to look like he was twenty-something not long after the first few treatments. He and the Doctor managed to flee Earth and met up with his Daughter, Chelsea, of the JTF. She was more of a law enforcement officer than military although she had done some time in the EDF. She was after a some what elusive criminal group lead by Lyra Vahst. Moving along in the story, Chelsea, with the help of her father managed to capture Lyra and her group only to find out they weren't as bad as they appeared and, in fact, they became good friends and helpful to her father.
Of course, Gareth Weston purpose in life was now to stop the Veldon. But there was little he could do alone. So he eventually met up with the sole remaining Earth fleet. That fleet was commanded by an Admiral and they rescued or found the Earth's Minister of Defense safely with the Korlas, an alien race that had an alliance with Earth. How the Defense Minister just happened to be with the Korlas when Earth was attacked was a question in the Admirals mind, but he didn't dwell on it long since he was assassinated. It's not know who did the deed, but the next up was Captain Harold Kensington. He took Gareth Weston into his fleet with Weston's advanced starship, the Pytheas, coming along as part of the deal. Now, Gareth and his ship have been assigned the mission of going into Veldon territory to find out if they are as undefended as they would seem since all their fleets seem to be in the Solar System. This mission behind enemy lines isn't one that will be easy, but needs to be done.
Meanwhile, a former criminal pirate, has assumed the identity of an Earth Ambassador and has managed to negotiate two alliances with to alien civilizations that were not formerly aligned with the Earth. These two races have agreed to help the Earth defend the Solar System since the Veldons seem bent on conquering everyone regardless of race. This Ambassador has now began negotiations with the Raldor, a very advanced civilization that was also very mysterious. These Raldor were asking the Ambassador and his people to help with a couple of issue they were struggling with in return for signing an alliance with Earth. The problem is, these Raldor problems could get the Ambassador's people all killed.
So, a lot is going on, but it looks like an alliance of at least the Earth humans, the Zitha, and the Likari could be taking place. All that's left is for the three Ambassadors or representatives to sign an agreement at a formal meeting on the planet Sentinel One. That was going to happen, but it appeared that some humans were very much against joining the Zitha as friends no matter what was at stake. Whether they would try something to stop the meeting was a question for Commander Marsha Silva and William Nesmith. They would be in-charge of the security for the site where the Ambassadors were to meet. They were in for a lot of trouble.
So, this has been a long re-cap of what's going on. There is a lot of different things happening and sometimes it's hard to keep track of the players. Commander Gareth Weston, remember him, the supposed main character, has taken a back seat to a lot of stuff and now he's kind of a minor player in the whole story. Oh, he's there with his crew of the Pytheas including his daughter, Chelsea, but he's certainly not the main character any more or at least not in my opinion. There are a lot of characters in this book.
Clearly this story isn't over. We haven't even started to liberate Earth and we might not get that done if all the other alien civilizations can't learn to trust each other. Book 8, "Unraveled" is out now and I've already got it on my reading list. Hope you do to.
Still, the attack was unexpected and caught the EDF unable to defend the planet. It also appeared that the Veldon were looking for something or someone(s) on Earth since they sent troops down to specific locations. One of those locations was in the vicinity of Gareth Weston. Of course he was going to fight back which he did, but he was overwhelmed, and got shot up badly. He managed to stumble to a house occupied by Dr. Augustus Keppler. Dr. Keppler took in him and decided that to save his life he would use him to further his study of a new drug he was trying to perfect. This drug reversed most of the aging in humans converting them back to about their twenties physically but not mentally. The drug was actually a six-part treatment that had to have certain elements to do its work.
Well, it worked wonderfully on Gareth. He began to look like he was twenty-something not long after the first few treatments. He and the Doctor managed to flee Earth and met up with his Daughter, Chelsea, of the JTF. She was more of a law enforcement officer than military although she had done some time in the EDF. She was after a some what elusive criminal group lead by Lyra Vahst. Moving along in the story, Chelsea, with the help of her father managed to capture Lyra and her group only to find out they weren't as bad as they appeared and, in fact, they became good friends and helpful to her father.
Of course, Gareth Weston purpose in life was now to stop the Veldon. But there was little he could do alone. So he eventually met up with the sole remaining Earth fleet. That fleet was commanded by an Admiral and they rescued or found the Earth's Minister of Defense safely with the Korlas, an alien race that had an alliance with Earth. How the Defense Minister just happened to be with the Korlas when Earth was attacked was a question in the Admirals mind, but he didn't dwell on it long since he was assassinated. It's not know who did the deed, but the next up was Captain Harold Kensington. He took Gareth Weston into his fleet with Weston's advanced starship, the Pytheas, coming along as part of the deal. Now, Gareth and his ship have been assigned the mission of going into Veldon territory to find out if they are as undefended as they would seem since all their fleets seem to be in the Solar System. This mission behind enemy lines isn't one that will be easy, but needs to be done.
Meanwhile, a former criminal pirate, has assumed the identity of an Earth Ambassador and has managed to negotiate two alliances with to alien civilizations that were not formerly aligned with the Earth. These two races have agreed to help the Earth defend the Solar System since the Veldons seem bent on conquering everyone regardless of race. This Ambassador has now began negotiations with the Raldor, a very advanced civilization that was also very mysterious. These Raldor were asking the Ambassador and his people to help with a couple of issue they were struggling with in return for signing an alliance with Earth. The problem is, these Raldor problems could get the Ambassador's people all killed.
So, a lot is going on, but it looks like an alliance of at least the Earth humans, the Zitha, and the Likari could be taking place. All that's left is for the three Ambassadors or representatives to sign an agreement at a formal meeting on the planet Sentinel One. That was going to happen, but it appeared that some humans were very much against joining the Zitha as friends no matter what was at stake. Whether they would try something to stop the meeting was a question for Commander Marsha Silva and William Nesmith. They would be in-charge of the security for the site where the Ambassadors were to meet. They were in for a lot of trouble.
So, this has been a long re-cap of what's going on. There is a lot of different things happening and sometimes it's hard to keep track of the players. Commander Gareth Weston, remember him, the supposed main character, has taken a back seat to a lot of stuff and now he's kind of a minor player in the whole story. Oh, he's there with his crew of the Pytheas including his daughter, Chelsea, but he's certainly not the main character any more or at least not in my opinion. There are a lot of characters in this book.
Clearly this story isn't over. We haven't even started to liberate Earth and we might not get that done if all the other alien civilizations can't learn to trust each other. Book 8, "Unraveled" is out now and I've already got it on my reading list. Hope you do to.
October 31, 2022
Many locations
So I jumped from the last book to this one no other books in between and I finally remembered all the charsacters. Makes a book more enjoyable if you know where everyone has been.
The book still has a lot of different locals so you need to pay attention to where you are in the book. The allies are trying to ignore past interactions (with wars and killing each other) not an easy task but one they must overcome if the hope to defeat the real enemy.
Good read but an abrupt cliffhanger end.
So I jumped from the last book to this one no other books in between and I finally remembered all the charsacters. Makes a book more enjoyable if you know where everyone has been.
The book still has a lot of different locals so you need to pay attention to where you are in the book. The allies are trying to ignore past interactions (with wars and killing each other) not an easy task but one they must overcome if the hope to defeat the real enemy.
Good read but an abrupt cliffhanger end.
October 30, 2022
Better than 6, not as good as first 3
The only constant seems to be Gareth and the team, the other sub plots change as people die, or become irrelevant
This time round a large part of the book is dedicated to Patrick from the JTF and his search for Trildair. A tad more engaging that most of the other parallel storylines but still not great
Hopefully this all comes to a conclusion soon and the author does not try to drag it out over too many more books
The only constant seems to be Gareth and the team, the other sub plots change as people die, or become irrelevant
This time round a large part of the book is dedicated to Patrick from the JTF and his search for Trildair. A tad more engaging that most of the other parallel storylines but still not great
Hopefully this all comes to a conclusion soon and the author does not try to drag it out over too many more books
February 8, 2025
While cultures have come together other forces are trying to separate them. While the pirate ambassador works to get another ally the vessel Franklin is piloting goes through something stronger than a worm hole. Klaus and Cole are captured and tortured by a rogue JDF officer who turns people into drones. Meanwhile Marsha & William work together to protect the alliances. The crew of the Pytheas ventures into Veldon space.
February 6, 2023
I got partway through this book and decided I didn’t feel like going on with it. I kept reading even after he made the two most interesting women in it lesbian. I know some guys that are turned on by that action, I’m just not wired that way. Then the book just kind droned along and got boring. I decided I’m just gonna cut loose of this series and try someone else’s books. Disappointed.
October 20, 2022
Good, but them cliffhangers . .
Enjoy the story, like the characters, plot keeps up the interest. What I don't get is why the author, or whomever suggests this, feel that cliffhangers such as this book ends with care "required"?
Enjoy the story, like the characters, plot keeps up the interest. What I don't get is why the author, or whomever suggests this, feel that cliffhangers such as this book ends with care "required"?
October 23, 2022
Disappointing
I have been following this series through every book until this one. Very disappointed by the ending where the author leaves you hanging in thin air thinking what happens next
I have been following this series through every book until this one. Very disappointed by the ending where the author leaves you hanging in thin air thinking what happens next
November 10, 2022
Broken
The story gets some weird twists here. The true enemy is found, but at what cost?You'll find some great secondary players who create additional suspense to the story line . It's fast action that keeps you wanting more.
The story gets some weird twists here. The true enemy is found, but at what cost?You'll find some great secondary players who create additional suspense to the story line . It's fast action that keeps you wanting more.
November 14, 2022
Awesome Space Opera
I like this series and each book keeps getting better. With all the different storylines you never get bored and the characters are constantly growing and maturing. I really like this book and I highly recommend it.
I like this series and each book keeps getting better. With all the different storylines you never get bored and the characters are constantly growing and maturing. I really like this book and I highly recommend it.
November 28, 2022
End
Crimes against humanity, should they carry the death penalty for all those involved? War is not the same as internal betrayal.
Crimes against humanity, should they carry the death penalty for all those involved? War is not the same as internal betrayal.
December 3, 2022
Poor Cole
Poor Cole. I knew something bad was going to happen to her. Now I will see, in book eight, exactly what that is and what she will do to overcome it.
Poor Cole. I knew something bad was going to happen to her. Now I will see, in book eight, exactly what that is and what she will do to overcome it.
January 12, 2023
Must I
I don't mind giving feedback but really, I just want to get on withe the next. It's an interesting series.
I don't mind giving feedback but really, I just want to get on withe the next. It's an interesting series.
February 6, 2023
Two things...
#1: spell check!!!
#2: proofread everything!
It would be a great story line, if I didn't have to stop and figure out what what was meant.
#1: spell check!!!
#2: proofread everything!
It would be a great story line, if I didn't have to stop and figure out what what was meant.
April 3, 2025
The series reads like it was a video game in that each book they have to reach the boss and beat them before going on to the next level only in this one they still have to beat the boss
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