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The video changed everything. Before that, we could believe that we were safe. Special. Chosen. We thought the universe was a twinkling ocean of opportunity, waiting to be explored. Afterward, we knew better. Seven years after first contact, Providence Five launches. It is an enormous and deadly warship, built to protect humanity from its greatest ever threat. On board is a crew of just four-tasked with monitoring the ship and reporting the war's progress to a mesmerized global audience by way of social media. But while pursuing the enemy across space, Gilly, Talia, Anders, and Jackson confront the unthinkable: their communications are cut, their ship decreasingly trustworthy and effective. To survive, they must win a fight that is suddenly and terrifyingly real.
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4.25 out of 5.
Great character development, well paced story, and utterly impressive ending.
I'll be pondering this one a while...
I found this one browsing in a Swedish SF bookstore. Usually Swedish book prices are a bit too steep for me, but this was marked down to about ten bucks so I snapped it up. This story began with a seriously good hook, essentially an encounter with an alien race goes spectacularly badly. We quickly move on to a crew of four aboard a massive warship of the new Providence class. It's a ship that is controlled by AI and the crew feel largely irrelevant. You get to know these four pretty well and the story zips along so fast. I gobbled this one up. The Daily Mail likened it to “Starship Troopers with added brain” and that's pretty spot on. This is my second book I've read by this author and won't be my last.