Earth Ascendant (The Forgotten Empire #2)

I really like this new series. Its a natural follow up to Earth Fall. In Earth Fall it was Earth alone against a xenophobic alien empire. Earth had inherited a tech advantage, and was able to locate a numerous alien race to mass produce sufficient amount of arms.

Now a 1,000 star human empire is conquered, enslaved and harvested for food. The human empire has located far away Earth and hurried its development. Now Earth is helping fortify and arm the human empire. Hitherto undisclosed, the empires long ago deceased crown prince has left descendants on Earth, and I predict a new crown prince will emerge to help lead the human empire to victory.

I especially like this series because of the royal family and a romance for the crown princess.

I thought that Banishment, the first in this series, was very good but Earth Ascendant is an excellent follow-up book. The characters remain the same but we learn a little more about them and their personalities. The story continues from Banishment and we learn more about both the humans and Confederation. Overall an outstanding work of sci-fi from Mr. Weil. I am anxiously waiting for the next installment in the series.

I do like the main storyline of the Human Empire against the Confederation. I also want to learn the complete arc of the story. But I do get bored with the relationship portions of these books as they really feel like rather shallow constructs. I also am having issues with skepticism about the politics of these books. After the events of 2020 with Covid and the fiasco that was the US election process, I have strong doubts that humanity would act as focused to war and the return of a monarchy. People in power like power no matter if their power stems from a bad place.

Before you start this book, please realize it is the second one of a series. You will need to have read the first book or the characters, scenes, and situations wont make much sense to you.

The author does his usual nice job of getting you into the story, and it is another page turner that kept me up really late in order to finish it I was dragging the next day. This series also seems to be better-written than his other series. I picked this up for $4.99 on my Kindle and certainly received more than $4.99 worth of entertainment value out of it: if you have enjoyed the authors other series, I am confident you will enjoy this one, also.

The only issue I have with this book is that I should have waited until just before book three was published to read it. I hadnt realized how captivating the story was u til I came to the end of the book and realized Id have to wait until July to find out what happens. Bummer. Mr Weil smoothly mixes personal story plots with great naval space action ensuring you have a true feel for the individuals and not just the tech. With luck book three will be out early in July.

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