About this ebook
OUR DARKEST HOUR.
OUR ONLY HOPE.
The invaders came to claim Earth as their own, overwhelming us with superior weapons and the ability to read our minds like open books.
Our only chance for survival was to engineer a new race of perfect soldiers to combat them. Seventeen feet tall, knowing and loving nothing but war, their minds closed to the aliens.
But these saviors could never be our servants. And what has been done cannot be undone.
A new epic of alien invasion and human resistance by Hugo Award-winning author Will McIntosh.
OUR ONLY HOPE.
The invaders came to claim Earth as their own, overwhelming us with superior weapons and the ability to read our minds like open books.
Our only chance for survival was to engineer a new race of perfect soldiers to combat them. Seventeen feet tall, knowing and loving nothing but war, their minds closed to the aliens.
But these saviors could never be our servants. And what has been done cannot be undone.
A new epic of alien invasion and human resistance by Hugo Award-winning author Will McIntosh.
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3.7
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April 2, 2018
2 1/2 stars (again the descriptives are a bit harsh below 3 stars). Right now I'm too irritated to really consider more, even though the basic premise of the story was certainly interesting. So much potential wasted though... To whit - usually I have just the opposite complaint about many apocalyptic tales, but in this case I would have stretched this book into AT LEAST two separate volumes, if not three. The story in its basic premise and conceptis interesting and I would add that the characters are sound and sympathetic. However, McIntosh just glances over far too much, leaving a lot of really high tension stuff unresolved from at very least an emotional perspective. An entire war - or at very least the fall of a city the size of London - should not be over within a few paragraphs. After a while, I felt like I was reading the Cliff Notes version of a tale that was being robbed of far too much substance. - 90 chapters plus opening and epilogue. That divided into much less than 420 pages (I did not read the 'extra' fluff provided at the end). This 'airport novel' herky jerky style of prose is beyond unnecessary, as was identifying each chapter with the name of the main protagonist. Come on, give your readers more credit than that. I'm putting McIntosh on my 'maybe again one day but not now' to-read list. I think a lot of what I just described arose from building this book up from a short-story in steps, maybe not all entirely in the author's way of thinking. Shame.
About the author
Will McIntosh is a Hugo award winner and Nebula finalist whose latest novel, Defenders, has been optioned by Warner Brothers for a feature film. His previous novel, Love Minus Eighty, was named the best science fiction book of 2013 by the American Library Association, and was on both Io9.com and NPR.org's lists of the best SF novels of 2013. His debut novel, Soft Apocalypse, was a finalist for a Locus Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and the Compton Crook Award. Along with four novels, he has published fifty short stories in venues such as Asimov's, Lightspeed, and Science Fiction and Fantasy: Best of the Year. Will was a psychology professor before turning to writing full-time. He lives in Williamsburg with his wife and their five year-old twins. You can follow him on Twitter @willmcintoshSF, or on his website, www.willmcintosh.net.
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