Points of Impact (Frontlines #6)

Posted on 07 October 2018 by Marko Kloos

Humankind may have won the battle, but a new threat looms larger than ever before Earth s armed forces have stopped the Lanky advance and chased their ships out of the solar system, but for CDC officer Andrew Grayson, the war feels anything but won On Mars, the grinding duty of flushing out the twenty meter tall alien invaders from their burrows underground is wearing down troops and equipment at an alarming rate And for the remaining extrasolar colonies, the threat of a Lanky attack is ever present.Earth s game changer New advanced ships and weapons, designed to hunt and kill Lankies and place humanity s militaries on equal footing with their formidable foes Andrew and his wife, Halley, both now burdened with command responsibilities and in charge of lives than just their own, are once again in humanity s vanguard as they prepare for this new phase in the war But the Lankies have their own agenda and in war, the enemy doesn t usually wait until you are prepared As Andrew is once again plunged into the chaos and violence of war with an unyielding species, he is forced to confront the toll this endless conflict is taking on them all, and the high price of survival at any cost. Best Download Kindle ePUB Points of Impact (Frontlines #6) author Marko Kloos – kino-fada.fr I am authentically impressed by this series It s easily some of the very best milSF I ve ever read Why Because the writing is super clear and manages to be both light and dark at the very same time I love how humanity is portrayed as being people, with both sexes getting over the baggage we never seem to get over in RL, everyone ...Kloos Frontlines has been my favorite MilSF comfort food for the last few years On the surface, Points of Impact, has all the qualities that endeared the series to me crisp, tense action scenes, tight and efficient storytelling, sympathetic yet flawed characters Most impressively, over the course of the first five books, each entry has improved upon the last It s sad to say that streak has come to an end with Points of Impact It became clear to me about halfway through book six that Kloos Kloos Frontlines has been my favorite MilSF comfort food for the last few years On the sur...It s been three years since the assault on Mars where the human forces largely denied the planet to the Lankies, but rendered it unusable in the process Andrew Grayson is coming off of a tour of Mars duty where the mopping up of Lankies continues, but a series of difficult deployments including the action on Arcadia Chains of Command , the Mars assault Fields of Fire and his year long deployment with the Lazarus Brigades have left him in a precarious mental state Humanity is finally all pull It s been three years since the assault on Mars where the human forces largely denied the planet to the Lankies, but rendered it unusable in the process Andrew Grayson is coming off of a tour of Mars duty where the mopping up of Lankies continues, but a series of difficult deployments including the action on Arcadia Chains of Command , the Mars assault Fields of Fire and his year long deployment with the Lazarus Brigades have...Marko Kloos is yet to write a bad novel However, Points of Impact, the sixth in his Frontlines series, is not his strongest effort to date.The problem is that the book feels like padding, with a thin plot stretched out to fill a full novel With the exception of a short and inconsequential opening on Mars and an equally rushed return to the Formahault System as a denouement, the book features very little military action Much of its length is filled with introducing the Ottawa, the newest and Marko Kloos is yet to write a bad novel However, Points of Impact, the sixth in his Frontlines series, is not his strongest effort to date.The problem is that the book feels like padding, with a thin plot stretched out to fill a full novel With the exception of a short and inconsequential opening on Mars and an equally rushed return to the Formahault System as a denouement, the book features very little military action Much of its length is filled with introducing the Ottawa, the newest and most formidable ship in Earth ...Executive Summary I originally gave this book 4 stars when I finished, but having time to reflect on it, I dropped it by a star maybe we ll call it a 3.5 because very little actually happened.Audiobook Luke Daniels continues to be one of my favorite narrators Another fantastic job Full Review Marko Kloos first came to my attention when he was nominated for a Hugo and dropped out due to controversy surrounding that nomination He earned a lot of respect from me for his decision and put thi Executive Summary I originally gave this book 4 stars when I finished, but having time to reflect on it, I dropped it by a star maybe we ll call it a 3.5 because very little actually happened.Audiobook Luke Daniels continues to be one of my favorite narrators Another fantastic job Full Review Marko Kloos first came to my attention when he was nominated for a Hugo and dropped out due to controversy surrounding that nomination He earned a lot of respect from me for his decision and put this series on my radar.I m not a big military fiction fan, but he does a good job of it These books are always fun, and light The fights are action packed, the technology is cool and the stakes are high This book was no different.I was excited coming into...I m frustrated Will this series ever end with an actual result Each book is just one battle for one planet or moon against the Lankie aliens I m tired.In this installment, we get to go back to the icy moon that Andrew helped liberate a few books ago This time instead of freeing it from an unjust military, the Lankies have taken over The humans have some shiny new toys to bring to the battle, including the biggest starship they have ever built, and some fun exoskeletons, but they still get t I m frustrated Will this series ever end with an actual result Each book is just one battle for one planet or moon against the Lankie aliens I m tired.In this installment, we get to go back to the icy moon that Andrew helped liberate a few books ago This time instead of freeing it from an unjust military, the Lankies have taken over The humans hav...I ve been anxiously awaiting the release of Points of Impact I did a binge read on the Frontlines series when I got a recommendation Author Marko Kloos has created a marvelous universe for those addicted to science fiction it s got everything a magnetic, but all too human protagonist, action, adventure, aliens, love and friendship What has kept my interest is the growth of the main character, Andrew Grayson In this book, he s taking up a big leadership role and it feels like a natural prog I ve been anxiously awaiting the release of Points of Impact I did a binge read on the Frontlines series when I got a recommendation Author Marko Kloos has created a marvelous universe for those addicted to science fiction it s got every...If you are looking for a lot of actions and explosions, you might be disappointed The novel takes even asomber atmosphere in which Andrew contemplated almost everything The action parts i..e big fighting with the Lankies came near the end of the book.Now, we are lucky that he was such a likable and competent character so all the observations are acceptable and not irritating I appreciate that PTSD is one of the main themes here and become the subject of many discussions that I believ If you are looking for a lot of actions and explosions, you might be disappointed The novel takes even asomber atmosph...Points of Impact is a decent addition to the Frontlines series This series is great Military Scifi and I am a huge fan Points of Impact picks up three years after the mars war and explores the effects of a long r...I was really looking forward to seeing the end of the line somewhere in the distance here It just seems like this will either be the last one with a lackluster ending or keep going with possibly a new protagonist but don t look for much advancement in the over arching story.There was way too much talk about PTSD, new equipment, previ...

07 October 2018

Marko Kloos