Into the Light

Put this book down, turn around, and walk away as fast as you can. The first 2/3s of this book is just an info dump of where Earth went from the last book, which, by the way, was so long ago that I forgot I read it. The last third is the “climax” that comes out of nowhere. One minute we're rebuilding on Earth and planning to wipe out the Hegemony, the next we're on some alien planet. There's no prep at all for this jump. Actually, the authors looked like they were setting up the finale to be the ravaging of the Shongair planet. That would have been connected in a real way to the main narrative (it's definitely not a story).

This has all the problems of Weber's Honor Harrington series and none of the charms. It's long-winded with descriptions of things that just don't need describing. There are a lot - A LOT - of words that don't form a cogent narrative.