Angles of Attack (Frontlines Book 3)

I read quite a lot of sci-fi, and I think it's been a long time since I've read anything quite as good as this. This is book three in a series which charts the story arc of humanity as it goes from squabbling space-faring juveniles to having to face down a serious external threat. Each of the first two books felt like complete stories, but by the end of book 2, the first shoe had dropped, and it was definitely time that the other hit the floor...The book is set in a fledgling human empire that's overstretched and overtaxing its citizens in order to create sufficient colony space to move out all the massively overcrowded PRC citizens on Earth. Out in a desolate unwanted system, two moons are run by competing human factions. One of them: New Svalbard is basically a ball of ice, useful for water which is reaction fuel and for life in space. Perched on this ice ball, far too many soldiers have been marooned without hope of rescue. Supplies are running out, people are getting angry, but a great victory has been won. Unfortunately for the victors, their celebrations are short-lived, as an old threat emerges from the jump point....Unfortunately for humanity, another civilisation seems to be seeking expansion and at the rate they're going, humanity's going to be a footnote to history unless someone comes up with an effective strategy. The strategy that the guys in Book 2 came up with is good, but costly... They need something bigger and better. Unfortunately, there's no way to tell anyone else about it, and for all they know, there IS nobody else.... I thought the first two books were good, but holy cow, this one had me turning pages at a rate I don't normally read. While things have been nicely beefing up, the characters have been very true to type so far. However, under a completely different set of pressures, the characters are forced to consider new solutions and new courses of action. They take some pretty drastic action to try and save themselves, their friends, and possibly humanity, which puts them on a collision course with their own people. The tension is massive, and for most of the book, the looming sword of Damocles has been "but if they get home, their goose is cooked anyway!"The writing is simply excellent, the pacing, setting, and everything are immaculate. The descriptions of the battle scenes, the settings and descriptions of what the characters are going through are perfectly done. My only minor gripe is that occasionally the scientific terminology is strained a little; but by taking a little license you can easily look past that.The series has quite clearly become an arc, and this feels very much like a 'main sequence' book in the ascent of the 'action' part of the arc. We've got all the players in place, and the situation is set... It's time to smash big things together...Excellent from beginning to end, I absolutely loved this book, and have already got 3/4 of the way through book 4!

This, which is instalment three of the series, is an exciting book to read, but only if you have read the two previous titles. Otherwise, you will be rather lost, will miss a lot of the background, and will find that many of the characters that appear in this volume are poorly described, partly because the reader will have meet them before. The bottom line here is that this is NOT a standalone book.My second problem with this title is not so much the first person writing in itself. Although some reviewers make no bones in disliking this, I do not really mind, when it works well. The issue here is that he does not always work out well, although I will refrain from giving specific examples in order to avoid spoilers. A related “stylistic” point is the overuse of dialogues where the characters speak in acronyms, most of which are even explained in this volume. I counted up to six per page and could not help finding this rather annoying at times. This could have been mitigated if the author had replicated the little annex he came up for one of the previous titles. Unfortunately, he did not bother to do so.Then there is the story itself. Our hero, his mates and friends, and the task force to which he belongs and which has been fighting another bloc (Sino-Russians, of course) are stranded far away from Earth and the Solar System which is being threatened by ruthless aliens bent on destroying the human race. The North American Commonwealth’s elites are, of course, corrupt, incompetent and interested in saving their own skins rather than fighting the Aliens that have already destroyed the human colonies and bases on Mars and killed millions. I don’t need and do not want to tell the rest: it is painfully obvious. The last feature, with our hero, his girlfriend – well, more than that in fact – and his favourite squadron leader will, of course, join the forces of “good” to defend Earth (and Detroit in particular!) and its downtrodden populations against the terrible aliens just like that…Three stars for what was an exciting but also a shallow read.

I was a little torn writing this review. There's some fantastic character development here for main cast, but the story is a little naff, and spends most of the story bouncing between two systems repeating itself or filling in loose ends with single paragraphs, in contrast to the other novels which are faster paced. It all builds to a crescendo which is over in a few pages and an epilogue. Some of the more complex characters disappear or die with little ceremony. Still I'm invested enough to pick up the 4th installment.

This is your typical dystopian earth seeks colonies, but colonies meet hostile aliens. The series descends into a series of military conflicts that get progressively more repetitive. The saving grace is the better than average writing skills. I believe the series extends to 6 books, but I doubt I will stay the course. Good characters, but once the military action gets overly excessive, I invariably start to lose interest in the story. So far so good, but...

I'm really enjoying this series and very much looking forward to reading more about our hero, Andrew Grayson. The only slight negative to this one is that it has the feeling of the middle part of a trilogy: there's plenty happening but it feels as if it's setting the scene for what's to follow.I've been reading a lot of fiction lately by authors I've not come across before - some new and some, apparently, not so new. Inevitably there have been one or two duds amongst them but Marko Kloos is certainly one to keep an eye on, I believe. I just hope Grayson and Halley get a break before too long - they deserve to be spending a bit more time together.

Mira que es difícil mantener la calidad a lo largo de tres libros y que la historia siga atrayendo y no haya altibajos, pero Marko Kloos lo consigue con creces en esta tercera parte. No voy a añadir mucho más a lo que ya dije de los otros libros, solo que aquí demuestra que además de narrar batallas terrestres muy bien, el autor también es capaz de trasladar esa tensión a las batallas en el espacio y todo lo que se desarrolla fuera de la atmósfera, que en este libro es mucho más que en los anteriores. Muy muy recomendable.

While I have quite enjoyed these books so far thijsnijs the lst one I wil read. I find the overall plot unconvincing, there are too many plot holes and there is no real progress.They have been fighting for years and the humans know next to nothing about the Lankies. Why aren't humans researching them? Get a body and dissect it. Why have the Lankies been waiting on Mars for a year? They have multiple seed ships just send one to Earth. Why defend a tunnel with three seed ships when any one of them could just eliminate the 'threat' on the other side?I've read a bit about the next 3 books and it looks like just more same. I'm out.

The plot of this series is really good and comes up with some real surprises.But what is really a shame is that the corrector did a "not so great" work. Things like the whole time the main character is wearing combst fatigues and then he puts something on the pocket of his jeans or he is switching on the same piece of gear twice.But it is rather minor inconsistencies. Otherwse I am still positively surprised and I raced through the first three books in no time.

Konstant gutes Schreibniveau mit einer interessanten Endzeitgeschichte. Aber noch ist die Erde nicht verloren und die Helden der Geschichte müssen sich völlig neu orientieren. Nach aussichtslosen und vernichtenden Weltraumschlachten mit den übermächtigen Außerirdischen bleibt nur der Wille zum überleben. Grayson erkennt, dass er belogen und benutzt wurde. Er und seine Mitstreiter nehmen ihr Schicksal jetzt selber in die Hand.Schreib schneller Kloos!

I was already sort of hooked after the first two books so I found it easy to forgive some degree of predictability and faithful following of the tradition of the genre (pieces of self-irony when the characters themselves compare their heart-to-heart to a war movie is a very nice touch). It's clear that the story is not at an end yet: I do hope it won't drag on for too long.

This was a good entry in the Frontlines series. It appears that finally the human factions are putting away there differences to fight the common foe. There was plenty of action both space combat and ground. The ending was left open so I expect more books in this series. The characters were believable and behaved in keeping with the series premis.

Auch die Fortsetzung ist spannend - neben Kämpfen mit den menschlichen Feinden erlebt Grayson auch wieder Attacken der Lanskys und es gibt mehrere nennenswerte Ergebnisse -Vereinigung der Menschen, Flucht der Machthaber, Verletzung und Heirat

Another great entry for this series, I've already read this maybe three times along with the rest of the series but I always find myself coming back to it.

Just plain G.O.O.D.Highly recommend.The plot is very interesting, and the way the author has written draws one into his imaginary world.GOOD.

Book has a story line but the author abandons it almost every other chapter and the ending is just so wrong and empty even if you look at it as a supposed cliff hanger. Getting sick of these self published 3 rd rate books on Amazon. No quality control. Looking at google play books.

I would recommend this book and series to anyone who enjoys great sci-fi the series is so good that I didn't take the time to review the previous novels as I was so anxious to get to the next book do yourself a favour and get the series

If you like the other books, you will like this one. It may seem like the plots repeat themselves in the grand scheme, but the small details keep it going.

Another very solid entry in the Frontlines series. Some great new characters, and all your previous favourites (that haven't been Lanky-fodder...yet). On to the next book.

Solid entry that moves the overarching story forward, though sometimes lacking in character development,and other times it's a bit too slow. I think Marko Kloos is just now "finding his stride" with this series, and Ilook forward to many more installments.

High quality writing and plot developmentThe author does have issues with anyone with authority however, officers and politicians in particular.It’s still an interesting read however, worth the price