he second book of the Captive’s War Trilogy now extends our understanding of what is going on across the universe in a war that defies belief in scale and technology .The first book, The Mercy of Gods, dealt with a small colony lost (supposedly and hinted at) from The Expanse universe. There, the best of a world are carted off to an alien home world to do labwork and advancements or face being culled. Now, the team that survived has been scattered. With what we learned from the short story Livesuit, about the long-dead alien race from which all unbelievable tech came from, we now know that humans are in the thick of things, other humans from other worlds.

So yes, some of the team ends up scouting the vanquished enemy planet, and the stunning surprise that brings us. And another small group finds themselves embedded in a sprawling space battle of the likes you’ll probably never read. It was pure nightmare fuel, the advances and scale of that conflict. I read that part (about being chased about a dead alien command ship by a thing out of nightmares) with bated breath. So yes, things are popping all over the galaxy.

And, of course, we still have former lab assistant Dafyd who is playing both sides (with foreshadowing that he will bring down this alien empire) and keeping one step ahead of death, hated by the other humans and overlooked by his masters. And so things grind don to the final book, hopefully here soon.

This isn’t your parents’ scifi. This is original science fiction with mind-numbing proportions. You really need to check it out. Max stars on this one!

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