Cally's War

by John Ringo, Julie Cochrane (Author)

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Series: Legacy of the Aldenata (book 6), Posleen War (6)

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romsfuulynn | Apr 28, 2013 |

Let's be honest, this book has not reviewed well over the years. However, I had a long flight, and figured I'd give it a go. It wasn't actually all that bad, and was certainly massively better than some other share cropped books I have read. The writing is competent and the plotting reasonable. I think the biggest problem is that the start of the book would be quite shocking to some people (it certainly bothered me), and Cally's character is so out of line with where I wanted her to be 40 years after the last book. I can see how it would be possible for her to end up like she is in this book, but it was a disappointment to me. The pretty much constant shagging is distracting from the rest of the plot too.

Overall, I am left wanting to know more about the Darhel plot, and the book did help further that story line, if only a little. I don't regret reading the book, even though it isn't the strongest in the series.

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mikal | Mar 21, 2011 |

I delayed checking this book out from my local library because of the lurid cover. (You say "lurid" like that's a bad thing.) I read a lot while I ride public transportation to and from work, and soon found out that I could start some of the coolest conversations when I found people staring at the cover.

This novel, however, and like the Cally character, sucks. Literally and figuratively, if you know what I mean.

A reviewer who described the sex scenes as "monochromatic" is being WAY too generous. Some guys can write believable women. Ringo can't. I recommend more decapitations, cannibalistic aliens, and over the top violent battle scenes (which Ringo does supply in the books that follow this one).

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mcolpitts | Aug 15, 2009 |

Rater mediocre part of the Posleen series, good promise but it fails to deliver. The Posleen series seems to have jumped the shark. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
John Ringo	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Cochrane, Julie	Author	main author	all editions	confirmed
Caldwell, Clyde	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Legacy of the Aldenata (book 6)

Posleen War (6)

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Cally's War

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2004-10

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To my husband, James, for feedback and help above and beyond the call of duty, and to Katie for her
patience in sharing her Mom.

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"So, how go your plans for the humans, Tir?"

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His favorite sports bar in Chicago had taken an old prewar rectangular middle-of-the-room bar and replaced the central island of glassware, bartender, and drinks with a large holotank.

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Cally O'Neal was trained from childhood as a premier killer. Officially listed as dead, for the past forty years she has lived a life of aliases, random lovers and targeted assassinations. This has led her to become the top in her profession, undefeatable, invulnerable. And in the process, she has lost her soul. Now she, and the man she loves, must battle to reclaim it. But Cally will find that leaving her dark world of shadow identities, murder-for-hire, and deadly secrets will be more difficult than any of the many lethal operations she carried out in the past. Her employers think she knows too much to live, and the scores of enemies she has made still have her at the top of their hit lists. The real question is, will she win her soul only to lose her life?

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"For as long as Cally O'Neal could remember, she had lived in danger. While her father was off fighting the invading Posleen she had been raised by her grandfather, practically on the front-lines of a war that had erased five billion humans from the face of the earth." "In the final stages of the war she had officially "died" and been recruited into the elite ranks of the Bane Sidhe, a group of underground warriors dedicated to breaking the stranglehold of the elf-like Darhel. A stranglehold the Darhel held on the Galactic Confederation before the war and now were extending to their human "allies."" "For forty years she has led a life of unremittent, unrecognized, unhallowed slaughter, wearing a constant stream of disguises, sending humans who support Darhel off to meet their Maker, with her body, mind and soul twisted and "improved" to serve the needs of her own "allies."""Now, on the most important mission of her career, at odds with her superiors, hunting a mole that could destroy her at any moment, and inexorably falling in love with the enemy, for the first time in her life she has to wonder if it's worth it. If being the dragon is the best way to fight the dragon. And if there will be a morning after for the little girl who liked to play with guns and swim with the dolphins. Cally had been fighting for the future of the human race, but now she is in a war for survival: the survival of her soul."--BOOK JACKET.… (more)