U.S Army Sergeant Randy Knox is sixteen, and already a seasoned veteran. He is an alien killing prodigy who has eradicated more of the invading Creepers than anyone can keep track of. But Randy is also a high school student struggling with geometry. And he is a young man whose heart is being pulled in two directions by two very different girls. One, Abby Monroe, a straightforward warrior. The other, Serena Coulson, dangerous and mysterious.
Randy, with the help of Serena’s strange brother, alien interpreter Buddy Coulson, has convinced a Creeper base to surrender. After a decade of conflict, misery, and the death of millions of humans, it finally seems that the war may come to an end. But then the surrender effort turns into a bloody ambush. More disturbing, Buddy and Serena Coulson arrive, having escaped torture and interrogation at the hands of a C.I.A. operative. It begins to dawn on Randy that, as much as he doesn’t want to believe it, the powers-that-be may not want the war to be over.
Now, as Randy’s hodge-podge military unit makes a desperate stand at a remote outpost, young Sergeant Randy Knox learns just how far he will go to protect those he loves—and what it takes to save humanity from total alien domination.
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Excellent #2 but......the ending cries out for a #3. If that was the intention succeeded totally.
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I'm such a sucker for military sci-fi!It's a shame that the thumbnail review for this book doesn't mention that it's part two of a series. (That might change after i post this.) I read the first book a while back and assumed that this was a rerelease of the original, so I put it off.
Even after I started reading (~5 pages) I was still thinking it was just an unacknowledged second edition. (I never claimed to be all that bright.) I am so glad I stuck with it!
So there I was reading along and happened to look at the clock. It was 4:17AM! Bloody hell! No wonder my mug of tea was cold and empty! It is now evening of the next day and I've just finished reading the book. Here are my impressions:
>We can never assume we understand alien intentions. We barely understand cultures of humans on the other side of the world. Any other side. Pick one. Our asumptions are always wrong to some degree. And those are other humans.
>Humans are like smarter cockroaches. It is nearly impossible to kill all of us. Even the volcanic bottle-neck in our history 30ish thousand years ago didn't wipe us out.
> We have emotions. Thos emotions clutter up our thinking and cause trouble where none should be if we could just set them aside and communicate with each other. But that is a fairy tale. It won't happen.
I really enjoyed reading this book and cannot wait for part three to come out. So, what do I suggest to my fellow Baenites? To quote an old TV commercial from the late 20th century, "Try it, you'll like it!"Posted on