Alien Agendas

Solar Warden, Book 3

De: Ian Douglas

Narrado por: Nick Sullivan

Reptilian aliens, Nazis in space, time-traveling humans, kidnapped girlfriends, government psychics—it all comes down to this: New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas delivers the jaw-dropping finale to his action-packed military sci-fi Solar Warden adventure series.

The Saurians, a highly evolved reptilian species which escaped extinction 65 million years ago, have an agenda: to achieve behind-the-scenes dominance over Earth. Operating from hidden bases, they use psychosocial techniques to plant conspiracy theories and instill fear within the human population. Too weak in numbers to militarily conquer a world they believe to be their own, they seek to renew Nazi strongman ideologies and surrogates to gain absolute control.

Their first attempt is thwarted by the Talis, time-traveling humans from the far future. Yet, their assistance is limited as they face an all-out time war that could sweep modern humanity and their futuristic society into oblivion.

With the human species in danger, Commander Mark Hunter and his Joint Space Strike Team must work alongside Talis agents, the U.S. Space Force, and a young and talented government psychic to stop the Saurians from world dominance.

As if saving earth wasn’t challenging enough, Hunter’s girlfriend, Jerry, was kidnapped by the infamous Men in Black to control him. Now Hunter has just one chance to find and rescue his love and the rest of the captives before the Saurians bring the entire base crashing down around him and his people.

Commander Mark Hunter and his crew require a miracle, and perhaps even that might not be enough…

©2023 Ian Douglas (P)2023 HarperCollins Publishers

meh

I liked the book for the most part. Hunter ticked me off. I wanted someone to throw his ass in prison just like they kept threatening to do. or punched his smug face.

Was okay

I feel like this was just made quickly to finish a series the author didnt want to continue. Some plotlines were wrapped up but others were completely forgotten about. Overall not the worst book ever (ahem sam maggs), but not a solid conclusion.

Derivative

It was a good book and an engaging series, but it was so incredibly similar to Douglas's own Star Carrier series that it got annoying.

The themes were the same, the insertion of conspiracies and memetics - same, Hunter paralleled "Sandy" Grey far too much for my liking (except for generic Navy Seal commander turned intergalactic and intraTIME key figure versus "back water forgotten city ruins anti-grav bike phenom turned space fighter pilot).

Both became unexpectedly central to a story spanning millions or billions of years of time as well as space.

It was so similar and so derivative, one can imagine Douglas trying to connect the two book series through some sort of parallel timeline nonsense.

don't get me wrong. I liked it. It was just too similar to Star Carrier and Sandy Grey to not get distracted by the copy-paste narrative details.

Narration was great, but having listened to the entire Star Carrier series twice now, I kept hearing characters from that series and couldn't remember who in this series was supposed to be talking.

left a whole lot to be desired.

I hated how entire issues were forgotten from the previous book. I left unsatisfied.