Terminal Uprising

I'm surprised this series seems under the radar so far. What's not to like about warrior janitors? And now warrior librarians, as well! Mops is so quick on the uptake. She is attentive to odd, obscure facts; and can use them to construct unexpected gambits. She is the opposite of the warrior humans that the Krakau desire. And Wolfy steps up in the same manner once she begins asking herself "What would Mops do?"

Throw all of the rules out and look at the situation with fresh eyes. Confronted with human soldiers intent on capturing her? First ask about a mutual friend... then warn that shooting would have them all be farted out of the hibernating creature they are inside of.

A beautifully written, occassionally humorous, fast paced adventure through space and back to zombie infested Earth to uncover the what-ever-it-is the Krakau are hiding. Characters evolve, Puffy the help widget gets a battle mop (!!), a Prodryan lawyer joins the crew, Wolf learns about skunks, and janitors get up to ingenious (and often amusing) shenanigans with cleaning supplies. I will never look at my cleaning agents or vacuum cleaner the same way again. A lovely sequel to Terminal Alliance.

You need to have read the first book in the series before embarking on this one, this just follows up on the first story and now Mops is determined to discover more about humanity's past and how it has got to where it is. She also has to deal with a lawyer, that might's exactly have humanity's best interest at heart and the fact that several people want her dead to keep their secrets, well, secret.

There's character development (one of my favourite is her AI!), people having to deal with leadership roles being thrust at them and fighting Librarians. It's witty and fun and both myself and my husband read it. Despite me reading it first that didn't stop my husband from reading funny pieces out to me.

The second book has Mops and her small crew trying to figure out how to beat the Krakau and expose just what really happened on Earth to cause the plague. So the Pufferfish heads to Eath with some codes from allies and land on Earth to find that not every human turned into a brain eating Zombie and they have worked hard to preserve Earth’s culture and stay under the radar of the Krakau there in a secret lab. The overall story is good, and a new plot element is added at the end that will keep the readers wanting more.

"Alliance computers are requesting interface," said Doc. "There are six thousand, four hundred, and eleven software updates pending."