Kris Longknife: Unrelenting
by Mike Shepherd
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"The aliens attacking the planetary system of Alwa are an enemy unlike any Admiral Kris Longknife has ever encountered before. She doesn't know who they are, only that they worship a being known as the Enlightened One and are unafraid to sacrifice themselves against her fleet. But Kris faces more than just the fanatical behavior of an alien armada. A saboteur has infiltrated the military's medical facility and unleashed an epidemic that has spread throughout the fleet without warning. show more Seventy-two career military women are down with something not even the aliens could do to them--including Admiral Kris Longknife" -- show lessTags
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In UNRELENTING, Kris and 72 other career military women find themselves pregnant because of a sabotage of their birth control implants. Besides dealing with her pregnancy, Kris has to get ready to face an implacable enemy planning to come at Alwah with overwhelming force.
Kris is also dealing with a near mutiny of the support people who are working to produce the goods Kris needs to fight the war. A section of this story has her putting on her Nuu Enterprises hat and her Viceroy had to work with people to find out how to get the supplies they need and still meet the needs of all of the beings on Alwah.
But the main focus of this one is the battle against four mother ships that are getting ready to come at Alwah with the goal of show more completely destroying the planet and the people who live on it. Luckily, just as the battle is about to begin, help arrives from King Ray which really beefs up Kris's defense forces.
This was a shoot-em-up episode but didn't stint on quieter moments between Kris and her baby-to-be and Kris and Jack. show less
Kris is also dealing with a near mutiny of the support people who are working to produce the goods Kris needs to fight the war. A section of this story has her putting on her Nuu Enterprises hat and her Viceroy had to work with people to find out how to get the supplies they need and still meet the needs of all of the beings on Alwah.
But the main focus of this one is the battle against four mother ships that are getting ready to come at Alwah with the goal of show more completely destroying the planet and the people who live on it. Luckily, just as the battle is about to begin, help arrives from King Ray which really beefs up Kris's defense forces.
This was a shoot-em-up episode but didn't stint on quieter moments between Kris and her baby-to-be and Kris and Jack. show less
More or less more of the same - more battles, more logistics, more alliances. More magic new tech, though it's not really designed for battle - Nelly et al has a lot of work to do with it. With an extra twist for Kris - the choice about having a baby is taken away from her. And then she's taken away from Alwa at the end - yet another rearrangement of her life.
The latest in the long-running (and ongoing) Kris Longknife series, 'unrelenting' is a good word for this. It consists mostly of space battles and logistics, with just a bit of Kris's personal life for leavening.
Changes are coming, but for now Kris is still locked in the fight to keep the implacable alien menace away from Alwa and from the rest of human space. It isn't easy, but she is up to the challenge.
An adequate military SF adventure, this is not the strongest in the series. Fans of the Longknifes will definitely want to read this one, but it is emphatically not a good place to begin.
Changes are coming, but for now Kris is still locked in the fight to keep the implacable alien menace away from Alwa and from the rest of human space. It isn't easy, but she is up to the challenge.
An adequate military SF adventure, this is not the strongest in the series. Fans of the Longknifes will definitely want to read this one, but it is emphatically not a good place to begin.
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- Kris Longknife: Unrelenting
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- 2012
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