Alex Harper is back and again the center of the action. She has enlisted to fight the creatures who killed most of the people on her planet. This time she is getting more than anyone barged for. Look for more in this series as Alex continues to fight great space opera.

Another good book from the reliable Marko Kloos. While I prefer the Palladium Ward books to this, more extensive, series, Kloos does and effective job of recycling familiar military SF tropes to produce an exciting and fast moving adventure. Protagonist Alex may be a new soldier - and we get to see a bit of training, in a familiar SF scenario - but the interest lies in her experience as a survivor of aliens conquest and how that has shaped her. The book ends with hints of changes to come and I am glad Kloos is suggesting he will break the mold. It would be unfortunate if his series became tediously repetitive.