Fields of Fire by Marko Kloos

The time has come to take the fight to the Lankies.

Mars has been under Lanky control for more than a year. Since then, the depleted forces of Earth’s alliances have rebuilt their fleets, staffing old warships with freshly trained troops. Torn between the need to beat the Lankies to the punch and taking enough time to put together an effective fighting force, command has decided to strike now.

Once again, seasoned veterans Andrew and Halley find themselves in charge of green troops and at the sharp tip of the spear as the combined military might of Earth goes up against the Lankies. But if there’s one constant in war, it’s that no battle plan survives first contact with the enemy…and the Lankies want to hold on to Mars as badly as humanity wants to reclaim it.

Originale: Que dire sur ce tome ? On retrouve tous les ingrédients qui ont fait les précédents et on y rajoute un peu d'hormone de croissance pour une bataille à grande échelle entre les humains et les Lankies pour la reconquête de Mars. L'action ne s'arrête presque pas et on a envie de savoir comment tout va se terminer donc on enchaîne les pages très rapidement.

Original: What can I say about this volume? We find all the ingredients that made the previous ones and we add a little bit of growth hormone for a large-scale battle between humans and the Lankies for the reconquest of Mars. The action hardly stops and we want to know how everything will end so we move through the pages very quickly.

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Relecture : je garde mon sentiment de page-turner avec ce tome. L'action est omniprésente une fois les troupes débarquées sur Mars.

J'ai une fois de plus très apprécié cette lecture et j'ai hâte de passer à nouveau à la suite.

Rereading: I keep my page-turner feeling with this volume. The action is omnipresent once the troops land on Mars.

I once again really enjoyed this read and can't wait to move on to the next part.

The fifth entry in Kloos's Frontlines series continues the war with the Lankies. This time we get the battle of Mars: and a very tough battle it is. During the course of the almost constant fighting we learn a little bit more about the very alien enemy that has pushed humanity almost to the brink of extinction. But still, almost everything about them–their motivation, origin, culture, economy–remain unknown. (I keep wondering where Kloos is going with this.) The main character takes some hard knocks.
Good military SF. But, it is not really a stand-alone book. One should read the previous volumes first.

Executive Summary: Another good entry in this series, although I didn't like it quite as much as [b:Chains of Command 25648897 Chains of Command (Frontlines, #4) Marko Kloos http://images.gr-assets.com/books/1457383836s/25648897.jpg 45468301]. I'm definitely looking forward to the next book though.Audiobook: Part of what sold me on this series in the first place was that [a:Luke Daniels 2978188 Luke Daniels http://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1331514576p2/2978188.jpg] was the narrator. Another excellent job as usual. He continues to be one of my favorite narrators.Full ReviewEvery book I have certain expectations about what it will be about, and every time Mr. Kloos seems to catch me by surprise. I was totally expecting this book to focus right in on Mars, but I was wrong. It did get there however.Of course five books in, it's always tough to review a book without getting into spoiler territory. I will say that while I thought this book would start moving the series towards a conclusion, now I'm not sure. That's OK though, because I've really been enjoying these books. While I found Andrew pretty unlikable in the first book, he continues to show growth as a character and has become easy to root for. The supporting characters are all pretty great too, especially Halley, Dimitri and Sgt. Fallon. I'd have liked more with Sgt. Fallon, but I was happy to get a lot of Dimitri to make up for it.This book started off with a bang, but slowed down a bit for several chapters, before cranking the action all the way up to eleven. This is definitely more military fiction than Space Opera.I'm curious to see what direction this series will take in the next book. I have a terrible track record so far in predicting what Mr. Kloos will do next, but so far it's been a really fun ride.

This is, in my humble opinion an excellent military science fiction series.

Fields of Fire is the 5th installment of the series, we follow our intrepid heroes as the earth forces engage the Lankies in their first offensive action with the goal to re-take Mars. If you've read the first 4 books in the series, you know what you're getting and you'll definitely want to pick up here and see what happens next.