March and April Reading Wrap Up

Command Decisions (The Empire of Bones Saga #3)
by Terry Mixon
TerryMixon.com|Amazon
3 Stars
​Between a rock and a hard place! 

After winning a hard-fought victory, Commander Jared Mertz and Princess Kelsey discover another insidious foe blocking their way home. A remnant of the Old Empire still exists and seems allied with the savage, AI-dominated Pale Ones. 

With the existence of the Terran Empire at stake, another enemy, this one from Jared’s past, threatens everything they’ve worked so hard to achieve. Jared and Kelsey must fight for survival while the fate of humanity hangs in the balance.

​My thoughts: While this was not my favorite book in the Empire of Bones Saga, Mixon still spun an engaging story full of questions begging to be answered, interesting and complex relationships, and badass fight scenes.

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Obsidio (The Illuminae Files #3)
by Amie Kaufman,  Jay Kristoff
Amazon
5 stars
Kady, Ezra, Hanna, and Nik narrowly escaped with their lives from the attacks on Heimdall station and now find themselves crammed with 2,000 refugees on the container ship, Mao. With the jump station destroyed and their resources scarce, the only option is to return to Kerenza—but who knows what they'll find seven months after the invasion? 

Meanwhile, Kady's cousin, Asha, survived the initial BeiTech assault and has joined Kerenza's ragtag underground resistance. When Rhys—an old flame from Asha's past—reappears on Kerenza, the two find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict. 

With time running out, a final battle will be waged on land and in space, heroes will fall, and hearts will be broken.

My Reaction:
An amazing closing to one of my favorite series. It left me begging for more, I really hope we see more work from these two authors working together.

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Outbreak (The Black #3)
by Paul Elard Cooley
Shadow Publications| Amazon
​4 Stars
When a Centers for Disease Control quarantine fails at Ben Taub Hospital, a Houston SWAT Team is sent in to secure the facility. What they find is destruction and death. Trapped in the hospital, cut off from the world, a mysterious voice on the radio is all they have to guide them. They're no longer on a mission to quarantine the remaining inhabitants. Instead, they have to destroy a multiplying menace that could infect the world before the Federal Government enacts a final solution. 

Outbreak is a standalone, parallel story to both the 2015 Parsec Award Winning Novel The Black and The Black: Arrival. A winning mashup of action and horror, Outbreak is a suspenseful thriller that will keep you guessing at what's around the next corner.

My Thoughts: This series continues to be one of the most interesting series that I have read in it's presentation. The episodic like series left me wanting more, and feeling chills at every turn. DRS podcast host Paul E Cooley needs to write the last book soon!

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Marines (Derelict Saga #1)
by Paul Elard Cooley 
​4 stars
Shadow Publications| Amazon​
​Fifty years ago, Mira, humanity’s last hope to find new resources, exited the solar system bound for Proxima Centauri b. Seven years into her mission, all transmissions ceased without warning. Mira and her crew were presumed lost. Humanity, unified during her construction, splintered into insurgency and rebellion. 

Now, an outpost orbiting Pluto has detected a distress call from an unpowered object entering Sol space: Mira has returned. When all attempts at communications fail, S&R Black, a Sol Federation Marine Corps search and rescue vessel, is dispatched from Trident Station to intercept, investigate, and tow the beleaguered Mira to Neptune. 

As the marines prepare for the journey, uncertainty and conspiracy fomented by Trident Station’s governing AIs, begin to take their toll. Upon reaching Mira, they discover they’ve been sent on a mission that will almost certainly end in catastrophe. 
The Derelict saga is a suspenseful mashup of hard military sci-fi, space opera, and mystery. 

Some mysteries shouldn’t be solved.

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