Mike Shepherd
Kris Longknife is back home on Wardhaven, and the Navy is looking for a job for her where she can stay out of the limelight and just do her job. While waiting for orders, we find the entirety of the fleet traveling to a nearby star to scare off some pirates. Seems like the Society of Humanity (a 600 something confederation of planets) is starting to politically disintegrate, with isolationists holding sway. While all this is happening, four massive supercruisers enter the Wardhaven system, demanding immediate surrender. Longknife becomes the commander in chief of the local volunteer defense force to take on the impossible odds. The legend continues to grow...
In the space battles, this is a pretty good sci-fi treatment of how space battles might happen, with time and speed and space completely different than a land based or even air based battle. But pretty good is not excellent. See The Lost Fleet series by Jack Campbell for excellent.
3 stars (out of 4)
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