Border War
Finally back to a little reading. Border War is the latest in the On Silver Wings series following powered armor-wearing special operative Sorilla Aida, now in the wake of the cold war cessation of hostilities with the alien Alliance.
In the previous book, she was investigating a human colony in Alliance space. This one is the same in broad strokes, though this time the colonists have some particularly potent Alliance tech at hand. Not a lot of it, but enough to be dangerous and by the last page the question of who is supplying the insurrectionists remains unanswered as Aida decides she needs to get to the bottom of it, even if that means leaving SOLCOM.
So it's a fair enough story in its own right, perhaps the most interesting thread being the mutual hunting of ships in space around the central planet rather than the raiding, sneaking, and fighting that goes on below. But in many ways, it feels transitionary, which action answers to ongoing questions being put off for now.
Oh, and the book really could use a bit more editing. I think I saw a character name spelled three different ways in the first chapter and there are other issues like inconsistent treatment of ship names and chapter/section headers.
In the previous book, she was investigating a human colony in Alliance space. This one is the same in broad strokes, though this time the colonists have some particularly potent Alliance tech at hand. Not a lot of it, but enough to be dangerous and by the last page the question of who is supplying the insurrectionists remains unanswered as Aida decides she needs to get to the bottom of it, even if that means leaving SOLCOM.
So it's a fair enough story in its own right, perhaps the most interesting thread being the mutual hunting of ships in space around the central planet rather than the raiding, sneaking, and fighting that goes on below. But in many ways, it feels transitionary, which action answers to ongoing questions being put off for now.
Oh, and the book really could use a bit more editing. I think I saw a character name spelled three different ways in the first chapter and there are other issues like inconsistent treatment of ship names and chapter/section headers.
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