First, I'd like to say that I've written reviews for most of the previous books in this series - my complaints for those books still stand, to a point, for this book - repeating key information about major characters, technology used (conference room), explanation of high speed battles, etc - but the author did tone it down a bit with this final book in the Lost Fleet series. Thankfully!
The rest of my review contains some SPOILERS, so stop reading now if you haven't read any of the books or this last one specifically.
SPOILERS BELOW
* Okay, end this story. The aliens got a taste of human weaponry... let them go home. Let Black Jack get married and take Desjani to some far away homestead and live out the rest of his life... but no...
* Set it all up for another six book series. Why six books? Because this publisher was not capable of taking what should have been a 2 or 3 book story and actually printing and binding it in 2 or 3 books. No, it was spread out over six books, almost 5 full years of waiting. Very aggravating. So I don't expect the Enigma Aliens series to be any shorter. I'm drawing the line here and, in my mind, Geary gets to go home, rest, enjoy life. I won't be buying or reading the next series - life is too short. As you can tell, I'm very aggravated that the alien storyline was even introduced. It was an obvious plotline to support the possibility of another series; without it, the Alliance/Syndic storyline could easily have stood on its own with the book ending with the forced peace.
* Why 3 stars and not 1? Because the Lost Fleet and Syndic story was finished well. It was a good and realistic ending to what we've learned about both sides of this war.
* Why 3 stars and not 5? Because of the stupid politicians. Every book. Every chapter of this final book, actually. Maybe others enjoyed the characters of Rione and the other senators and reps, but it got so old. I really don't classify this as military fiction... only about 60%. The other 40% could be labeled political thriller or Political Science 101... for me, it got that boring and repetitive. I'm serious - try and find a single chapter in this last book that doesn't have some sort of politician being asked for their advice or telling Geary they don't trust him or they do trust him or they're going to have to discuss things... argh!
Okay, really... I'm glad the series is over. Thanks to the author for providing a story that, although it was spread thin over 6 books, was still a good story. Good luck with the Enigma series. I'll read the wikipedia summary a few years from now when that series is done.
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