
The Lotus Eaters
Carrera, Book 3
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James Fouhey
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Tom Kratman
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Sometimes paranoia is just a heightened state of awareness.
Carrera’s won his war, and inflicted a horrific revenge upon his enemies. But there are wars after wars. The Tauran Union is planning an attack. The criminals of neighboring states are already attacking, and threatening to embroil him in a war with the planet’s premier power. His only living son is under fire among the windswept mountains of Pashtia. An enemy fleet is hunting his submarines. His organization has been infiltrated by spies. One of the two governments of his adopted country, Balboa, is trying to destroy everything he’s built and reinstitute rule by a corrupt oligarchy. Worst of all, perhaps, he, himself, bearing a crushing burden of guilt, isn’t quite the man he once was.
Fortunately, the man he once was, was lucky enough to marry the right woman....
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- Crawtrapman
- 08-28-22
another great performance and book . i
I enjoyed it. I look forward to reading and hearing more. preparations for invasion by the cosmo elite.
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- e province
- 10-03-23
Building up the entire book for subpar climax
Their was some good parts in this book don't get me wrong but it entirely felt like just build up for the next book. The chapter about the submarine duels and the narco war were part of the good. In addition the small glimpse we saw on Earth was interesting. I don't know why we didn't get to see more on Earth in this book from UN Fleet Admiral's perspective. Instead we got only a glimpse before she is shoved back onto a ship again training her number 2. The author had these chapter prefaces or interludes on cultural analysis/legal system of the legion. Perhaps they weren't as bad in the physical novel but I found them increasingly annoying as the book went on. They could've been cut down to about half as many and I don't think we would've lost any critical information. The worst part about the book was the making of a deity of Carrera's son. It was weird and only got more odd as the story went on. In the end we're treated to a 11-13 year old boy, I don't remember his exact age, being married off to 12 young girls. All so he can pump out a hundred children with them all.
Overall this wasn't a terrible or even a bad book. Those books I don't finish, but neither was this that good either. I'm usually against abridging books but this book could've been shortened by five to six hours.
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- Steven R. Kirkeby
- 12-17-22
terrible narration, weak storytelling
If you can skip the ridiculous political ranting, and skip the unnecessarily descriptive and overly occurring blow job descriptions, it's a semi interesting tale.
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