Trojan Colony

Hammond's Hardcases, Book 2

By: Jack Colrain

Narrated by: Andrew Tell

The ends justify the means - except when humanity’s survival is on the line.

Earth’s landscape lies scorched by weapons fire after the most recent round of alien attacks. The technology the Mozari left behind has advanced scientific understanding at breakneck speeds, giving humanity the chance to fight back against their Gresian foes. Spaceworthy vessels and all-new weaponry are pumped out of orbiting factories, boarded by the brightest minds to begin colonizing new planets.

But humanity is still vulnerable.

Lieutenant Daniel West understands this, which is why his recruits are the most highly trained the military puts out - regardless of the physical and mental demand it takes to make them that way. Any soldier in the newly created Special Warfare Task Force must plan and prepare for every possible scenario.

After all, the return of the Gresians isn’t just inevitable. It’s imminent.

Now assigned to the United Earth Ship Shenzhen, Daniel is chosen to command a platoon to protect a team of elite colonists traveling to LTT-8270. But it isn’t until their arrival that the true mission becomes evident, and Daniel discovers an even more horrifying truth.

A truth that demands too high a cost for humanity’s future.

This novel contains violence and profanity.

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Continuing The Adventure

Since the last story Daniel West is training people just as harshly as Hammond did him to prep for the inevitable return of the Gresians as they attempt to finish their job. The stuff left by the Mozaris is also resulting in humanity's ability to build and increase our knowledge at breakneck speed creating weapons and ships with which to defend ourselves as well as colonize.

Anyways, at some point Daneil and his team of "Hardcases" end up on a mission which should be simple but there is a lot more than meets the eye (as with all things in this story) and it becomes a tense exciting story where they attempt to survive in the middle of space they still don't fully understand.

I think it's a little less good than the prior story in the series but still an entertaining science fiction story with a number of exciting moments and still has me excited to continue the series.

I received the review code for this audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this honest review.

Filler, Filler, Filler

Lots of rambling in areas that did not advance the storyline and then not enough details in areas that needed it.

Good story if you can get past the dialogue.

I like the story but I could not get past the weird up and down cadence of the narrator.

Almost amazing.

If it weren't for the narrator consistently mispronouncing a certain character's name (In the second book!) I'd have rated this higher.

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insert bad rant here
good concepts but he kept them to himself
I mean the drones