The Vanguard Emerges - Maraukian War Series Book 2

This is another awesome story. Politics suck in life and especially in this series. This book has a machiavellian plot with a science fiction Rome flavor. I can't wait to read the next book.

Fantastic book. Gritty,intense action with a backdrop of nasty politics and intrigue. Great read,even better than book 1 and that was really good.

I would recommend to my friends. I look forward to the next book of the series. It is really cool to see the evolution of the Victor Corporation.

I've enjoyed the series so far - but I feel this author has no sense of distance or measurements in math. The battles are over exaggerated and don't make sense at All. His depiction of battles and how they are fought obviously show this authors lack of "thinking it through". A single tank round killing everything in front of it for kilometers, yet not using this constantly? One moment a missles range is a few kilometers, the next its hundreds of kilometers. Holding a defensive line 300 kilometers from a city with less then 50 people and they are worried about the enemy getting around them? Makes no sense.

This series has potential. However, there are consistent issues. The first one that just makes confusion abundant in the story. The amount of “Mergers” is really inconsistent. It goes from 1 to 5 and makes sense. Then after that it goes up to 30 ish. Fine the reader can follow. Then it is a century (100) then half (50) then at some point almost when the book is done you find out there were 80 ish because so many died and the author is letting you know the causality rate. This entire book is about “Mergers” yet we are so lost on how many there are and where they come from.

The next issue might seem minor. However, it happens so much in the previous book and continues into this book. The MC’s rank changes several times. I understand he had a rank in Earth's army and then a different one in the Legion. But even those change. One minute he is talking about how he was a Captain in Earth's army, the next a friend is talking about him being a Major. Then his rank changes in the Legion at least 4 times both up and down.

Lastly, the ship that carries all the mergers changes classification back and forth a few times. One time its a carrier, the next time its a battleship and so forth. I understand the “Mergers” are God-like, but they cannot change a ship back and forth when they are not even on it.

Issues like this really derail the reader. If it was just one it would be okay. However, the first issue listed is a significant issue. Since if the MC somehow had illegal “Mergers” join him the whole plot would just be broken.