World War Mars 2

By: Rick Partlow

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

A battle won, a war begun.

General Bradstreet and the American forces on Mars have defeated the incursion by the insectoid Seekers, but at a heavy cost. The Morrigan is nearly out of reaction mass and can’t make it back to Earth, both landers have been destroyed and they have greater than fifty percent casualties. They’re stranded on Mars, saved only by the shelter of the Visitor ship.

Until, miraculously, help arrives in the form of a new alliance with the French Coalition government, which provides a resupply ship filled with food, fuel, and reinforcements… both US Marines and French Special Forces. They’re saved.

Or so they think.

But can the French be trusted or do they have ulterior motives? And can their own people be depended upon to do the job when they ignore the advice of the veterans of this Martian war?

Tom Bradstreet and Marine Sgt. Brent Parker face threats from within and without as they try to decide who their allies really are…and prepare to defend the Visitor ship from the next wave of attacks.

Because the Seekers are still out there, and they still want the Visitor with the fervor of a religious jihad. And the real question is…who’s behind them?

Book 2 in the next action-packed, gritty military sci-fi series from Rick Partlow, the bestselling author of the Drop Trooper Series and Taken to the Stars.

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Awesome series, can’t wait for #3

Really fun book with a lot of interesting twists and turns, good classic military sci-fi. Can’t wait for #3

Stupid premise

Poor character development, stupid plot, non sensical aliens. Boring. Hard time suspending disbelief with the absurd plot.

Rick phoned this one in

I know Rick partlow is a good author, but this one really isn't hitting for me. It's premise is interesting enough and the action is fine, but the character building is real weak, with characters acting very out of character based on what we know of them, religious zealous cursing out their gods, special forces soldiers randomly betraying their squad they've been with for years, etc. We also don't know anything about the world at all, I just found out at the end of book 2 that Europe basically was all consolidated into France, which would have been great information to have earlier since I was wondering why the French (which the author seems to dislike for some reason) are the only ones reacting to anything. Theres long rambling exposition being randomly placed in the middle of conversations. Also the romance is real bad, guy sees hot girl, they talk once, and then they're in love and will throw away everything for the other person. The first time had me raise my eyebrow, the second had me rolling my eyes.

Not sure what happened here, its not bad enough to drop with only 1 book left but I know he can do better