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jmoses's review against another edition
4.0
Also good. It's different than the first, but exactly the same.
pjonsson's review against another edition
4.0
I never really reviewed the first book. I was way behind on my reviews so I just wrote a mention in my End of Year Clean Up in 2019 (yes it has taken me this long to get around to read the 2nd book in the series) but then I wrote: “This is however NOT a book for SJW’s, liberals or anyone remotely left leaning. The easily offended crowd better take special care or else a heart attack or something is about to happen.“
Well, it is equally true for this second book. There’s a lot of political undertones and parallels to today’s geopolitical situations in the book and it is of course all told from the author’s political perspective. This book takes place in the same rather dystopian universe where the UN is, believe it or not, even more corrupt and useless than they are today in the real world. To the point that they are disgustingly depraved. Terra Nova is where UN sent all the undesirables, that is everyone which didn’t support their agenda, when they started to see their utopia crumble around them. Thus Terra Nova is now more like Earth, or like what Earth used to be.
Unfortunately certain religious factions on Terra Nova are also back to their previous fanaticism and shenanigans in general. It of course doesn’t help that UN in a unusual show of wisdom have realised that Nova Terra will crush the depraved and complacent Earth if they retake control of space travel so they do their best to support the religious terrorist scum in their hope of keep Terra Nova underdeveloped.
And in the middle of this Carerra is building his small army and searching for revenge.
Well that is pretty much the story. Politics, army building and action that advances the story at, I wouldn’t say slow but at least, a moderate pace.
I like Carerra and I like that the bad guys and the despicable scum bags usually gets their asses kicked more than the god guys gets it. The book is very well written. Story, characters, world building, military action is all top notch. It’s a long book and sometimes it’s a bit difficult to follow all the threads. In particular, I was not too found of the frequent flashbacks.
Overall it is a very good book but it requires a bit of effort to read. Perhaps that is why I seem to take quite some time between books on this series.
Well, it is equally true for this second book. There’s a lot of political undertones and parallels to today’s geopolitical situations in the book and it is of course all told from the author’s political perspective. This book takes place in the same rather dystopian universe where the UN is, believe it or not, even more corrupt and useless than they are today in the real world. To the point that they are disgustingly depraved. Terra Nova is where UN sent all the undesirables, that is everyone which didn’t support their agenda, when they started to see their utopia crumble around them. Thus Terra Nova is now more like Earth, or like what Earth used to be.
Unfortunately certain religious factions on Terra Nova are also back to their previous fanaticism and shenanigans in general. It of course doesn’t help that UN in a unusual show of wisdom have realised that Nova Terra will crush the depraved and complacent Earth if they retake control of space travel so they do their best to support the religious terrorist scum in their hope of keep Terra Nova underdeveloped.
And in the middle of this Carerra is building his small army and searching for revenge.
Well that is pretty much the story. Politics, army building and action that advances the story at, I wouldn’t say slow but at least, a moderate pace.
I like Carerra and I like that the bad guys and the despicable scum bags usually gets their asses kicked more than the god guys gets it. The book is very well written. Story, characters, world building, military action is all top notch. It’s a long book and sometimes it’s a bit difficult to follow all the threads. In particular, I was not too found of the frequent flashbacks.
Overall it is a very good book but it requires a bit of effort to read. Perhaps that is why I seem to take quite some time between books on this series.
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