Fields of Fire Frontlines Book 5 eBook Marko Kloos
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The time has come to take the fight to the Lankies.
Mars has been under Lanky control for more than a year. Since then, the depleted forces of Earth’s alliances have rebuilt their fleets, staffing old warships with freshly trained troops. Torn between the need to beat the Lankies to the punch and taking enough time to put together an effective fighting force, command has decided to strike now.
Once again, seasoned veterans Andrew and Halley find themselves in charge of green troops and at the sharp tip of the spear as the combined military might of Earth goes up against the Lankies. But if there’s one constant in war, it’s that no battle plan survives first contact with the enemy…and the Lankies want to hold on to Mars as badly as humanity wants to reclaim it.
Fields of Fire Frontlines Book 5 eBook Marko Kloos
The fifth installation delivers. I've reviewed every entry into this series, and Kloos gets better at every milepost. This series ihas been largely plot driven, and feels fresh for a pew-pew military SF series. In this entry, Kloos shows his character chops as for the first time time I'm flipping through pages sweating about who is going to make it.Fields of Fire is the campaign to retake Mars, and I would have been happy with a routine "turning of the tide" novel, which I fully expected. But he even manages to shake that up a bit and take it in a direction I didn't expect. Well played.
When I reviewed "Terms of Enlistment" I advised that you should scoop it up before he wasn't selling novels at Indy prices any more. Here's my advice now - scoop up the series before his numbers dictate new novels at 15 bucks.
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Fields of Fire Frontlines Book 5 eBook Marko Kloos Reviews
The Skinny events take place a little over a month after the 4th novel. Earth's forces are gearing up for a major offensive against the Lankies controlling Mars. The fate of Earth depends upon success. The problem, the once seemingly dumb Lankies are now acting very tactical.
The Good Kloos keeps the pace of the story cranking. It's an action story. He delivers, and even does so with some even writing.
The Bad Throughout four books I've been thinking "this is a spacefaring race, yes they are 'alien', but they act without strategy and tactics". Finally, the question is being answered, but a bit too slowly.
The action is good, but the story doesn't so much go forward as it meets a stalemate. Book 6 needs to provide more answers. Book 4 started some character development, but book 5 lacks.
The Ugly Lots of "F" bombs.
Thoughts This is an easy to read series; however, I never got excited about this volume. Usually, I tear threw these in less than a week, this one didn't inspire me to turn pages. Kloos needs to develop his Bad Guy Aliens beyond that. Now, they are the easy to hate aliens. He toys, a little bit, with his characters seeing them as less alien, and more human, but not enough.
I'm ready for Lt Grayson to develop beyond just a good soldier.
Kloos' Frontlines series is just top notch Sci-Fi and this latest relies is no exception. The tone and story arc is in the spirit of the greats think Halo CE, Aliens, and even a bit of Starship Troopers. However, the work is not derivative. Kloos has created an entire universe here from scratch, one where I enjoy spending time. I don't give out five stars lightly, but this series is as close to perfection as anything I have read, watched, or played. It is fiction at its best. Do yourself a favor and pick up the entire series at once; it will save you several more runs to the store or shipping charges.
I thought quite highly of Marko Kloos "Frontlines" series, calling it the best of ground-based mil sci-fi. Somehow, the fifth book in the series raised the bar even further!. It's Earth against the Lankies in Greenland and on Mars, so for setting alone it is worth reading. But it is not a homogenous "Terran" force but one made up of Americans like Lt. Grayson and his wife Halley and also Russians and a variety of Europeans; Chinese are fighting the Lankies, too, but out of our sight. Their equipment is advanced but understandable, and Mr. Kloos stays very true to the limitations of the soldiers' arms and armor.
The gigantic Lankies are some of the best and most "alien" foes in the genre. We never truly understand them, though the range of their capabilities become a bit more evident in this book. They have taken Mars, trapping our settlers in a number of large bunkers while the Lanky version of terraforming is done. Clearly, a Lanky presence there cannot be allowed to remain, so the stakes are never in doubt. The drop ships and SI troopers are needed, but the task is one that may be too much.
Finally, the writing is first rate and some of it, particularly at home in Liberty Falls, rises above the genre. A pleasure to read!
This is book 5 of the "Frontlines" series, and it is even better than the excellent Book 4. There is much to like here. Firstly, as I have said in other reviews, the aliens in this novel are truly alien, nothing like humans. This is good. We humans have never met aliens and we know nothing about what they might be like. In this series, the aliens are truly alien and appear to treat humans with disdain; regarding us more or less as pests for them to eradicate, unworthy of compassion or any more regard that we humans give to ants.
The characterizations in this novel continue to develop as well. Kloos creates characters that the reader will care about and like.
The action in this novel is very good. Too many space opera novels rapidly turn action scenes into nothing but technobabble, which is essentially a cop-out substitute for an actual plot. You won't find that here. The action is integral to the plot, largely eschews technobabble, and held my interest throughout (not always easy).
This one is worthy of a five-star rating for the space opera genre. RJB.
The fifth installation delivers. I've reviewed every entry into this series, and Kloos gets better at every milepost. This series ihas been largely plot driven, and feels fresh for a pew-pew military SF series. In this entry, Kloos shows his character chops as for the first time time I'm flipping through pages sweating about who is going to make it.
Fields of Fire is the campaign to retake Mars, and I would have been happy with a routine "turning of the tide" novel, which I fully expected. But he even manages to shake that up a bit and take it in a direction I didn't expect. Well played.
When I reviewed "Terms of Enlistment" I advised that you should scoop it up before he wasn't selling novels at Indy prices any more. Here's my advice now - scoop up the series before his numbers dictate new novels at 15 bucks.
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