Finish the Fight

Echoes of War, Book 7

By: Daniel Gibbs

Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer

Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins

Publisher's summary

There’s no rest for the weary.

The sun has set on General David Cohen’s galactic military service after 22 years in the Coalition Defense Force. Stripped of command of the CSV Lion of Judah by the new administration after his candid assessment of their tactics, David faces ending his illustrious career not as a war hero but a desk jockey.

But the League of Sol isn’t about to head off into the sunset to lick its wounds.

Though its shipyards lie in ruins and its leaders talk peace, the League still has their reserve home defense fleet—and a seething determination to use it to claim victory over the Terran Coalition once and for all.

As well as an old adversary ready to take General Cohen down.

Word reaches CIS that the enemy is secretly amassing forces. In a last-ditch effort, David joins old allies to commandeer a ship for a daring recon mission. With arrest warrants hanging over them but their suspicions confirmed, they risk their freedom to confront the Terran Coalition’s leadership with the newly discovered intelligence.

When the dust settles, David is tasked with a desperate mission: defend Canaan at all costs.

And like his father before him, this mission may prove to be his last in this epic series conclusion.

©2020 Daniel Gibbs (P)2022 Daniel Gibbs

Great series

Loved the series, I’m glad it was finished on audio, Siri reading it to me does not cut it, until the next one, great work

Perfect finish to the series

Has everything you want from the conclusion of the series. Heroic action and epic scale ship battles. With the religion how ever you take it. Kafer kills it.

Wish that I had faith

The storyline was kinda typical for this type of novel. I'm kinda stuck on character and find the LEAD character was developed to be the struggle between faith and doubt. The rest of the book(s) are basically the old testament on the space age. I did admire the depth of the author devotion to his beliefs. I'm at best an agnostic. I have increased the income of the author by purchasing this entire series. it was worth it from the point big view that I was educated and challenged as to my beliefs. Nothing changed but I enjoyed the travel.

If I'd read this first, I would have just quit

I've been entertained more or less though the series and stuck with it until this one, so it's not that I don't like the basics going on here. It's just beyond my ability to suspend disbelief. I'm certain that if I were in this world, I'd be pretty sure our heroes led a coup against their democratically elected government. Reading the book, I'm still not sure that's not what happened. Not saying it might not have been necessary at some point, but it's like no one notices the heroes have avoided sending vital national security information to the CinC so they could deliver it to an opposition political figure they like. Even the supposedly cunning political manipulators of the enemy, who should have just lit off a civil war among the protagonists, aren't heard from.
We're told that defeat has been stolen from the jaws of victory. We're also told that the enemy has a fleet of such overwhelming size and power that it can defeat the good guys in their maximally fortified home system without any chance of success. These two pieces of information are incongruous.
We're told that all the factions that might support the good guys are holding back support for a variety of, some quite rational, reasons. They all show up because, they apparently didn't really mean any of those reasons. There's no action taken that causes this change of heart, it's just a thing that happens.
Hundreds of warships declaring themselves morally bound to disobey the orders of the leaders they swore to obey looks a lot like a civil war to me. Alien isn't really a good enough excuse for that. Then again, maybe that's another coup we're supposed to be happy about.

Don't really know what happened. I think the author got hit in the head or something.