A review by rafial
Center of Gravity: Star Carrier: Book Two by Ian Douglas

4.0

Slightly better than Book 1 in the series, although still fairly tepid writing, with a strange compunction to constantly repeat the same explanations regarding various bits of future tech and jargon that you've already three for four times previously. The main virtue, that of some really interesting nonhuman aliens (both physically and psychologically) continues, with several new species being added to the rosters. The human characters continue to be pretty cardboard though. I was also bemused by the notion of a North America three centuries hence that seems solely populated by people with northern European surnames. Also, everybody of significant command rank is male, except for one female flag officer who is introduced just long enough in book one so that she can die tragically to motivate one of our viewpoint characters. *sigh*