![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Human diversity is indicated by names rather than physical descriptions. All the wrestling with guilty secrets and divided loyalties makes for a talky first half, but readers who weather the angst are rewarded with a string of brutal, intense action scenes. As it turns out, Donovan isn’t the only member of his closely knit unit who nurses hidden connections with Sapience. Donovan Reyes, a human soldier who has been Hardened with retractable armor and raised since childhood in the group-oriented zhree culture, is pitched into the middle of increasingly violent events and unwillingly finds himself a go-between, desperately seeking common ground between his own species and the zhree colonizers who, having themselves been born on Earth, are reluctant to leave. ![]() The first tentative steps toward reconciliation between the zhree overlords and the human resistance known as Sapience are thrown off-kilter by the sudden announcement from the Mur Erzen Commonwealth’s capital that the zhree will be withdrawing for strategic reasons-leaving Earth vulnerable to the Rii, a nomadic, planet-destroying zhree offshoot. Earth, the outlying colony of an overextended alien galactic empire, falls victim to interstellar raiders in this sequel to Exo (2017). ![]()
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