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I was very disappointed with the first book of this series but this second book was much better. it moved along quite well without getting bogged down in character monologues about technical fluff. What technical descriptions about weapons is short, concise bits that give readers an idea without distracting. I loved the ending, very touching.

Quite possibly the most disgusting book I've ever read. To have Canada act as World War II Nazi Germany if very offensive to me. The fact that the author goes out of her way to blatantly depict Canada as "the bad guy" and the American's as "the good guys" doesn't help.

This isn't about human slavery, it's about a badly written romance trying to be a fantasy novel. I realize that this is listed (now) under the "teens" category but I've read books for teens that are superior to this piece of cow dung.

This and the two others to follow will have big shoes to fill when it comes to following up the previous three books. And while reading the first three books isn't necessary it provides a lot of background to the story presented. My only real issue with the book (and it might ahve been the narrator) was the Arcolin/Phaelan bits seemed... stilted. I wish there had been more Dorrin as her parts seemed to be rushed somehwat. Overall though I enjoyed this and look forward to the next book which isn't out until 2011.

There were some interesting chracters but frankly I wish I hadn't bought this book. While the characters were intersting they just didn't match teh story's idea in my opinion. Perhaps I had trouble sympathizing with the characters but I just wanted the book over with.

Probably my biggest beef with this book is taht the reader has changed and he's put his own interpretations on how the characters should sound. Narmahn in particular... not to mention a effeminate sounding Merlin.

Story wise, more "action" then in the last book, though I prefered the last book. If the next book is the same price as this was I'll discontinue the series. On the other hand it doesn't ahve the mad technological dash taht Weber's otehr books like Harrington or Prince Roger series have.

As military fiction goes it rads better then Weber or Ringo. The SF parts are refreshingly (if not uniquely) applied to the matter to keep the plot going. I was turned off and jolted from teh story when the authro seemed the need to introdce/emphasize the origins and loyalty to the "United States" marines. At one point I was rooting for the politicians to shut the marines down and I nromally don't like to do that. It's the same sort of egoisms which turned me off action films. I don't know if I'll bu the second book.

A good book if it willbe the first in a series. That being said if it's meant to stand on it's own it's mildly muddled. I assume, given the description that the main chracter is Nimue. that being said "she" doesn't appear that often and when "she" does it's either for some rather unbelievable action sequence or to suffer a historical dissertation.

Don't get me wrong, history is important but the relevance of the speches given (or thought) is something that weighs the story down. Unlike where there's a fairly clear dominant main character in the say the Prince Rogers series, this book suffers from too many characters with little or no background to understand thier motivations.

The book is described as a "sci-fi epic" it's not, it's more a historical military novel with a few sci-fi bits as plot props.

I really can decide how I feel about it. I'm going to reread it again but at least for the first read-thru I didn't care about any of the characters and the bits of SF that were included are very good concepts but either allow deus ex machina style plotting or add littleif antyhing to move the story forward.

I suppose it could be arged that SF is a relative term given the planet's tech levels but for my midn that's stretching things a bit.